Chapter 24 – The Americas and Oceania in the Early Modern Era
Chapter Questions:
1. How did epidemic disease impact the New World – both in the Caribbean and on the mainland?
2. Describe Spanish colonial administration in the New World.
3. Describe Portuguese colonial administration in Brazil.
4. How did the French and English settler colonies in North America differ from the Spanish and Portuguese colonies?
5. How were the indigenous peoples of North America affected by the colonial settler colonies established by Europeans?
6. What characterized colonial social structure, social hierarchy, and gender relations? How was social structure different in North and South America?
7. How did silver impact the global economy – and the New World – in the early modern era?
8. What are some examples of resistance to Spanish rule in the New World?
9. How what characterized the following economic activities/businesses in the New World, and what were the effects of these businesses in colonial societies?
a. the sugar trade
b. the fur trade
c. the tobacco trade
10. What labor systems fueled the colonial economies in the New World?
11. How did Christianity spread in the New World? How did indigenous religions impact Christianity?
12. What explorations of Australia and the Pacific islands took place in the early modern era?
Chapter terms/people:
1. Taino
2. encomienda
3. Smallpox
4. Cortez
5. Montezuma II (Motecuzoma II)
6. New Spain
7. viceroys
8. audiencias
9. Mestizo
10. Peninsulares
11. Creoles
12. Potosi
13. Mita
14. Manila galleons
15. Hacienda
16. Indentured labor
17. Virgin of Guadalupe
18. James Cook
Chapter 25 – The Americas and Oceania in the Early Modern Era
Chapter Questions:
1. What characterized the Songhay Empire in early modern West Africa?
2. What led to decline of the Swahili Coast in the early modern era?
3. What led to the Kongo becoming increasingly connected to global networks in the 1400s and 1500s? What impacts did the Portuguese have in the kingdom of Kongo?
4. Compare the spread and impact of Christianity and Islam in early modern Africa.
5. What characterized the Atlantic slave trade? How did it compare to the Islamic slave trade?
6. How were traditions of slavery in Africa different from traditions and patterns of slavery in Europe and Asia?
7. What are the social, economic, cultural, and political impacts and effects of the Atlantic slave trade?
8. What were the regional differences between planation societies in the Americas?
9. What are some examples of resistance to slavery in the Atlantic world?
10. What factors – social, political, and economic – contributed to the end of the slave trade and growing support for an abolition movement?
Chapter terms/people:
- Sunni Ali
- Asante
- Kongo
- NzingaMbemba
- Angola
- Queen Nzinga
- Khoikhoi
- Fulani
- Manioc
- Triangular trade
- Middle passage
- African diaspora
- Plantations
- Saint-Domingue
- Creole / Gullah
- Voudou