The Totalitarian Invasion

Assignment:  

1. How did Columbus use propaganda to support his own needs?

2. Columbus used what group of people to make money?

3. How much gold did Columbus extract from the Caribbean?

4. What was De las Casas’s occupation before becoming a priest?

5. As a priest, De Las Casas wrote to Queen Isabella, asking what about Africans?

6. What social climatic event happened in 1518?

7. What events caused the extinction of the Taino people?

8. What two animals were pivotal in the conquest of the Americas?

9. Indigenous people of the Americas were decimated by what European import?

10. What system did the Conquistadors use as an incentive?

11. Latin America was based on what social structure?

12. How many enslaved Africans were transported to Brazil?

13. Based on the Columbian Exchange, what product from America became a staple in Europe?

14. How many years after the conquest of Tenochtitlan was San Diego founded? 

15. Who were the people indigenous to San Diego?