MWHH Unit 3 Week 6/Disc 2 Past Paper

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This document contains free-response questions about the Treaty of Tordesillas, the Columbian Exchange, diseases in the Spanish conquests, Spanish colonial hierarchies, labor systems, and the Triangular Trade. The questions cover various aspects of history, including exploration, colonialism, and the impact of colonization.

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MWHH Unit 3 Week 6/Disc 2 **Free Response** 1. What was the result of the Treaty of Tordesillas? 2. What plants and animals were taken from the New World to Europe? What plants and animals (and diseases) were brought from Europe to the New World? 3. What role did diseases play in the...

MWHH Unit 3 Week 6/Disc 2 **Free Response** 1. What was the result of the Treaty of Tordesillas? 2. What plants and animals were taken from the New World to Europe? What plants and animals (and diseases) were brought from Europe to the New World? 3. What role did diseases play in the Spanish conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires? 4. Describe the differences between the different Spanish colonial hierarchies, *peninsulares, criollos,* and *mestizos*. 5. Describe the different labor systems in Spanish America that used Native American labor. 6. What were the major exports from the Spanish colonies? What about Portuguese Brazil? 7. Describe each phase of the Triangular Trade. 8. What was the original justification for slavery of Africans? What justification followed that one, and why? 9. What cash crop necessitated the highest volumes of slaves? And in what regions of the New World was this crop grown? 10. What were the different ways in which enslaved people resisted their status? **Identification** Treaty of Tordesillas Pedro Alvares Cabral Columbian Exchange Smallpox Viceroyalty *Encomienda* *Repartimiento* *Peninsulares, Criollos, Mestizos* Hacienda Middle Passage Triangular Trade Maroon Communities Samuel de Champlain

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