Period 1 Flashcards
Period 1 years
1491-1607
Christopher Columbus’ voyage
1491
Encomienda system established
1512
Hernan Cortes invades Mexico
1519
The first ship of slaves arrives in America
1525
Maize
This was the main crop cultivated by American Indians.
God, Gold, Glory
Early European explorers were motived by a desire to spread
Christianity, enrich themselves and their monarch, and gain
glory for discovering new lands.
Christopher Columbus
An Italian explorer who stumbled upon the New World after
convincing the Spanish monarchs that he could sail across the
Atlantic to India
Encomienda system
A forced labor system developed by the Spanish that required
American Indians
Treaty of Tordesillas
1493 - Pope gave americas to Spain, and Brazil to Portugal
Asiento system
Required spanish to pay a tax to their king on each slave they imported to the Americas
