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Questions:

1. What themes from the period of European colonization does Red Shoes' experience reveal?
2. Why did European disease have such a dramatic impact on the Amerindian people?
3. Why is it accurate to state that the spread of diseases like small pox via the interaction between Europeans and Amerindians was essential in European conquest of the western hemisphere?
4. What were the positive impacts of the Columbian Exchange on Europe, the Americas and Africa?
5. Other than the spread of disease, what were the negative impacts of the Columbian Exchange on Europe, the Americas and Africa?
6. Which animal that arrived in the Americas as a result of the Columbian Exchange had the greatest impact on the cultures of the Native Americans?
7. In what ways do the Council of Indies and the viceroys represent the challenges that Spain faced in governing a large colonial empire?
8. Why did the Portuguese focus their energies on Asia and Africa during the 16^th century rather than Brazil?
9. How did the Spanish and Portuguese colonies differ from those established in North America by the French and Great Britain? [taxation, political structure, role of the church]
10. What role did the Catholic Church play in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in America and how did their efforts towards conversion change over time?
11. After 1600 how did the mission of the Catholic Church change and what was the outcome of this change?
12. How is the encomienda system tied to mines like the one at Potosí and the sugar cane plantations?
13. Why could a person argue the Spanish Mita was a form of slavery and how did it differ from the Inca-era mit'a?
14. Why were African slaves introduced to the Americas?
15. What was the role of the Catholic Church in the Americas?
16. Describe the social hierarchy that the Encomienda created in New Spain.
17. What role did free blacks play in the conquest of the Americas?
18. What role did indentured servants and the Virginia Company play in England's efforts to colonize North America?
19. How did England's efforts to govern its colonies differ from those of the Spanish and why would these efforts serve as the foundation of democracy in the future United States?
20. Why is accurate to state that regionally speaking the English colonies in America; while sharing the same mother country were more different from one another, than similar?
21. Why were slaves move prevalent in England's southern colonies than in its New England colonies?
22. If you were a Native American which colonial empire would you have the best relationship with; New Spain, New France or the English colonies in the Americas? Why?
23. How did the Protestant Reformation impact immigration to European colonies in the Americas?