Impact of Exploration of Impact of Exploration of America and AfricaAmerica and Africa

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions

1.1. What impact did European exploration What impact did European exploration have on the Native American population?have on the Native American population?

2.2. What were the hardships faced by slaves What were the hardships faced by slaves during the Middle Passage?during the Middle Passage?

3.3. What impact did European exploration What impact did European exploration have on the African population?have on the African population?

Native AmericansSpanish conquistadors made slaves

work in sugar fields and mining operations.

Columbian Exchange: Transfer of goods between Eastern and Western Hemisphere. There was good and bad.

- Millions of natives were killed off by disease brought by Europeans, like Small pox and syphilis-Sweat baths made worse-Animal domestication-Deliberately: infected blankets?

Exchange

Chart

Native Americans

African Americans-Slave TradeAfrican Americans-Slave Trade

-Slaves were often used in Africa.

-Usually prisoners of war serve as domestic servants or convicts, mentally challenged, people who upset their ruler.

-African slaves already sent to parts of Europe and Asia.

What is the history of Slavery in Africa?What is the history of Slavery in Africa?

Why did they want it in the U.S.?Why did they want it in the U.S.?-Growing demand for farmed goods

-Short supply of Native Americans

African Americans-Slave Trade

When demand increased, they started kidnapping victims from local tribes.

Where did the African’s Where did the African’s come from?come from?

Triangular Trade

Route connecting Africa, America, and Europe.

Middle Passage

-Journey from Africa to America

-It took one to five months

-Very harsh conditions, many died

-Many ships carried 500-700 slaves at one time. Some were “tight packers” and other were “loose packers”

What was it and what were What was it and what were conditions like?conditions like?

Colonial Latin AmericaColonial Latin America13.3

Social Class of Colonial Latin America

Farming in Colonial Latin America

• More long term solution for European wealth.

• Native Americans worked large estates or were tenant farmers.

• Some used the “encomiendaencomienda.”

• Others used the “mitamita” or drafting of Native Americans.

Crops and Goods from the Americas

• Gold• Silver• Sugar

• Tobacco• Diamonds

• Animal hides• Lumber

Assimilation Nations

From the beginning, Portuguese and Spanish conquers attempted to Christianize Native Americans.

Remember the who the dominate culture was. Do you still see this practiced today?

What was assimilation?