Spanish American Colonies

Warm Up

Witness History pg 286

If you were a Spanish soldier, how would Moctezuma’s reaction contribute to your success of taking over the city of Tenochtitlan?

How would Moctezuma’s reaction hinder your abilities of an Aztec warrior to defend the city?

Agenda

Table of Contents

Exploration Vocab 63-64

Spanish Conquest Notes 65

Myths of the Spanish Conquest 66

Case Study: Colonial Society 67

Colonial Society Diagram 68and Essential Question

Objectives

• Explain why European exploration led to cultural clashes and interchange between Europeans and native peoples.

• Explain the Columbian Exchange’s impact on Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

Conquest of the Americas

European exploration contributed to a revolution in trade, nutrition, and cultural exchange. The world population increased as a result of New World foods and trade in goods.

This exchange contributed to interdependence: What affects one region will affect us all.

European exploration of the Americas completely transforms both continents by wiping out indigenous people, culture, plants, and animals.

Those who survived found themselves in a new social and political hierarchy with Europeans at the top and themselves on the bottom.

What we know

• Aztec and Inca Empire are wealthy• Silver mines

• Spain and Portugal looking for wealth• Desire to spread Christianity

• Spain now has a foothold in the Caribbean• Sugar plantations• Base for more exploration

Myths of the Spanish conquest

• Read all of Page 287

• List evidence or reasons why the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztec and Inca• Leave space between the reasons for the review

• Example:• The Spanish were able to conquer the Aztec because . . .•Myth or Truth?

Disease

Always ruining things

Spanish American Colonies

• Primary purpose of the colonies is to make money for the mother country• Mines for precious metals• Plantation economy• Colonists buy goods from

merchants

• Secondary purpose is to enforce European hegemony/control• Convert natives to Christianity• European social norms• European governments

Spanish-AmericanSociety 68

Create a diagram, sketch notes, or some type of visual representation that explains how the different groups in the colonies functioned.

• Consider their rights and responsibilities.

•What privileges or depravations did they experience?

• People/Groups to include:

• Peninsulars• Creoles•Mestizos• Indians• Slaves• Government officials• Priests/nuns of Catholic

Church

•Use pages 291-295

Colonial Society Case Studies 67

•Read each case study.

•Use your understanding of Spanish colonial society and the textbook to answer the question.

•Write a detailed answer.• If you can imagine Ms. Powell asking you “Yes, but why?”

then it isn’t detailed enough.