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History 2300
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Undergraduate 1
12/05/2013
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the colombian exchange 

 

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the transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between the New and Old World societies after 1492. the native world had gold, silver, corn, potatoes, syphilis, etc. the old/european had wheat, rice, sugar, coffee horses, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, typhus etc. the while exchange of things was intiated by columbus.
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encomienda system
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spanish government's policy to "command", or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader spanish effort to subdue indian tribes in the west indies and onthe north american mainland
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bartolome de las casas
 Definition
a spanish missionary who was appalled by the encomienda system in hispaniola and called it "a moral pestilence invented by satan." he was a reformed dominican friar who wrote the destruction of the indies in 1542 to chronicle the awful fate of the native americans and to protest spanish policies in the new world.
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middle ground
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the area of french and indian cooperation around the great lakes that was controlled by New France. It was the basis of their extensive fur trade
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massasoit
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1621

the wampanoag chieftain who signed a treaty with the plymouth pilgrims and helped them celebrate the first thanksgiving after aumtumn harvest that same year 
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