(smallpox--> Already experienced the disease in Old World, built up immunity)

(Hotter climates, disease "took off")

2. Lack of Domesticated Animals

3. North/South Orientation (The "Shape" of North America)

location, climate is the same from E-->W , harder to grow crops from North to South because climate changes.

-700 years, Christian vs. Muslim

They had more land than work hands--> indentured servants & slavery.

Lots of land, not a lot of landowners

You expect there to be a lot of land for the whole population, but had to enslave people (to work) so they wouldn't get their own land.

When they took you over, they convert you and they accept you into the population

When they conquer, they keep pushing you back.

-led to Columbus looking for this trade route

-Spread Protestantism

-Resources (looking for gold, 

trying to grow sugar, harvest silkworms)

found tobacco and tar from pine trees for shipping)

-Purchase from markets

-Northwest Passage

-Haven for the poor

Henry Hudson couldn't find it because the ice was frozen--now you would be able to because of global warming

ended up in Canada , Hudson Bay & Hudson River named after him

(contrast to Barbados; 95% were slaves)

2. Natural increase in slaves population

3. 2 Tier system in America / Different in other places

- Nathaniel Bacon- rich guy joined the poor farmers, went to Jamestown and demanded permission to kill the Indians

- Burned "everything" down in Virginia 

- The poor vs. the rich--> at the end the rich won, because Bacon died of Diareha

- One of the first revolts in the New Americas (civil)

New Mexico

Prevented Spanish from further expansion North of New Mexico

Segmented

Spectrum

la raza

indio mestizo

2) importance given to reading the bible

3) small towns

military

gout, sourices