What were the ways that the Spanish and Portuguese exploited the lands they colonized?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Spanish colonization and exploitation
1. had every avenue to wealth at its disposal
a. suitable environments for all the new kinds of activity were
available in abundance
b. traditional native economies continued to produce their time-
honored crops and generate tribute
2. success of Spanish cities in America
a. Spanish imperialism was uncompromisingly urban minded
3. colonization slotted into the existing framework of Native American
civilizations
4. European styles in buildings smothered or supplemented the old
angular look of Native American architecture
5. civic model of life, the city-centered model of administration, was
extended into new areas
B. Portuguese colonization and exploitation
1. lacked the advantage of local labor sources that they could exploit on
the scale of the Spanish lands
2. tended at first to expand landward on only a modest scale
a. Brazil
b. sugar was suitable only to coastal enclaves where it could be
successfully grown and easily shipped to Europe
c. rivalry with Spain to control the Amazon, however, turned
Portuguese thoughts toward the Brazilian interior
d. navigability of the great Amazon River system in the 1630s
e. the discovery of gold and diamonds proved the incentive
required for Portugal to drive its Brazilian frontier inland
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Spanish mines in America yielded ten times as much gold and silver as the rest of the world's mines together.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
In his second term, Roosevelt's success was meager except for __________
a. the passage of a national health insurance program b. the passage of minimum wage and maximum hour legislation c. the passage of anti-lynching legislation d. a Democratic resurgence in the 1938 elections e. the emergence of a liberal congressional coalition that aided Roosevelt's reelection campaign in 1942
________ was by far the most effective and outspoken critic of the Spanish conquerors
A. Michel de Montaigne B. Francisco Pizarro C. Bartolomé de Las Casas D. Hernán Cortés E. Henry VIII