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Profited from agriculture and silver mining from the Americas. They also focused on the Christian conversion of the Natives.This impacted the Spains economy, the Natives and the Americas' land.
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SUGAR COLONIES: Spain were the first to facilitate slaves in sugar colonies in the Caribbean. The plantations were a major part of the economy in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries. - Evan Miller

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santeria is a religion practiced throughout Cuba. Santeria followers believe that one God created the universe and that the world is cared for by lesser divine beings known as orishas.

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The hacienda system was a system designed to keep people that were in debt to keep working for as long as possible.

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South Carolina was one of the first places to contribute to the foundation of Chattel Slavery. Chattel slavery/labor was when one person had complete ownership of the other. -Eleanor

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British East India Company

A British trading company form the 16th - 19th century. They traded goods like cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, spices etc. Founded December 31st, 1600.

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Cartaz was a pass that the Portuguese required all merchant ships to go through in the Indian Ocean Trade Route. It required people to pay taxes to Portugal which increased Portugal's wealth and power in the Indian Ocean Trade Route.

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It was Founded in 1602, it flourished and survived in two centuries. It was a combination of commercial organizations in various cities of Holland and Zee-land, traded both in Asia and between Asia and Europe.

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Definition of  Peninsulars: "Inhabitants of Spain and their descendants who immigrated to the Americas."
The Peninsulas were important because they were the social class that held all the plum political jobs in Spanish colonies in the Americas.

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Creoles were people who were people born of mixed races in Latin America. Though mostly it was the carribean mixed with Fance, Portugal, and Spain. Creoles would less rights in society because they weren't fully one race.

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dennis: The Portuguese set up the first trading post empire in the early 16th century to early 7th century. They were meant to control trade routes.

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Mercantillism is an economic theory where a country exports more than the intake. Western European countries like France, Portugal, and England used mercantilism in their colonies. Colonies gave the "mother" country gold and silver and in return, the "mother" country would sell raw materials back. This allowed for steady income of money and raw materials.

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Christianity came to Mexico in the 16th century with the conquistadors. When the conquistadors came, the native people blended their belief system with their belief system to create something now known as "Mexican Christianity"

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Encomienda System:
A legal system that was used to stop the abuse of slaves and Native Americans. It was significant because it gave slaves and Natives a little bit of protection.

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Saint-Domingue was a French colony that existed from the mid 1600s to the 1800s. Located on a Caribbean island called Hispaniola, it is now known as Haiti. The French brought changes such as slavery and monarchy to this region.

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Voodoo is a religion of Haiti. It’s a religion based on ancestral spirits and patron saints

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Dennis-Potatoes, beans, Tobacco and many more things were brought to the old world

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Diseases were transferred to America.
Native American children were affected by the Whooping cough and ¼ of children were killed.

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Bryson

Columbus fought for goods and land during the Columbian exchange and gained lots of food

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Sugar was a demand in Europe, for medicines, spices, sweeteners and preservatives. For a century Portuguese planters in Brazil was the main source of the world market for sugar.

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In 1492, Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas. - Evan Miller

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The europeans brought disease to the americas

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West African people were captured from their civilizations and brought to the Americas as slaves.

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Columbus Landed in the Bahamas in 1492.

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Diseases like smallpox were brought from Afro-Eurasia through the Columbian Exchange that killed 90% of Natives.

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The vikings were the first Europeans to land in the Americas, they first came in contact with the Iny, a Native American tribe, 500 years before Columbus

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The British empire had set up trading posts and slave labor sites across the Atlantic.

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European explorers brought new livestock to the Americas that decimated forests and land. -Eleanor

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During the mid 16th century ptosis had the worlds largest silver mine and was the largest city in the Americas.