Aim: What changes did the Spanish Conquest of South America bring?

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Aim What changes did the Spanish Conquest of
South America bring?

• Do Now
• How would life be different if another country
  took over the U.S.?

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The Influence of the Colonial Catholic Church
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Guadalajara Cathedral
Spanish Mission
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I. Impact of the Spanish Rule on South
America A. Religious Conversions 1. Catholic
missionaries (Jesuits) converted native people to
Catholicism
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B. Genocide by Disease
1. Spaniards unknowingly brought infectious
diseases (influenza, smallpox) to native
populations. 2. Killed millions of people
between 1520-1600
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WHAT ROLE DID DISEASE PLAY IN SPANISH CONQUEST???
Of all the organisms Europeans brought to
America, none were more harmful to Native
Americans than Old World diseases (Cronon 1983).
The Europeans brought with them smallpox,
measles, diphtheria, trachoma, whooping cough,
chicken pox, bubonic plague (carried by fleas,
which were carried by European rats), malaria,
typhoid fever, cholera, yellow fever, dengue
fever, scarlet fever, amebic dysentery,
influenza, and a number of worm infections
(Figure 3). Native Americans had absolutely no
antibodies to these diseases. To say that the
effect of these illnesses on the population of
the Americas was devastating would be an
understatement.
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C. Slave Trade 1. Imported African slaves to
work on large plantations
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D. Cultural Diffusion Native goods such as Corn
Potatoes, tomatoes, sugar, Chocolate, Peanuts
introduced to the rest of Europe
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The Columbian Exchange
Squash Avocado Peppers Sweet Potatoes
Turkey Pumpkin Tobacco Quinine
Cocoa Pineapple Cassava POTATO
Peanut TOMATO Vanilla MAIZE
Syphilis
Trinkets
Liquor
GUNS
Olive COFFEE BEAN Banana Rice
Onion Turnip Honeybee Barley
Grape Peach SUGAR CANE Oats
Citrus Fruits Pear Wheat HORSE
Cattle Sheep Pigs Smallpox
Flu Typhus Measles Malaria
Diptheria Whooping Cough
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Cycle of Conquest Colonization
Explorers
Conquistadores
OfficialEuropeanColony!
Missionaries
PermanentSettlers
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Treasuresfrom the Americas!
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Slave Trade

• Existed in Africa before the coming of the
  Europeans.
• Portuguese replaced European slaves with
  Africans.
• Sugar cane sugar plantations.
• First boatload of African slaves brought by the
  Spanish in 1518.
• 275,000 enslaved Africans exportedto other
  countries.
• Between 16c 19c, about 10 million Africans
  shipped to the Americas.

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Slave Ship
Middle Passage
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Coffin Position Below Deck
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African CaptivesThrown Overboard
Sharks followed the slave ships!
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Summary -HOW DID EACH OF THE FOLLOWING LEAD TO
EUROPEAN INFLUENCE AND DOMINATION IN THE
WORLD???? GUNS GERMS STEEL
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