Today students watched the episode from Guns, Germs, and Steel dealing with the conquest of the Incan empire [see below].
BBF Chapter 2 Test Questions: On Wednesday 9/26 you will take a quiz over the chapter. You will be asked to answer two of these questions.
- How did European economic needs and wants shape colonial society (i.e., social hierarchy and government structure)? Provide several examples in your explanation.
- Contrast the Spanish and Portuguese colonization efforts. What techniques did they use? To what ends or goals?
- In your own words, define the concept of hegemony. How did religion, patronage, and patriarchy create hegemonic control by the minority Europeans in the New World?
- What is transculturation? Provide examples and explanation..
- What was the purpose of the caste system? Describe some categories of the caste system.
- What was gracias al sacar? How did it undermine the caste system?
- Colonial Economics
- Royal Fifth
- Viceroys and viceroyalties
- Development of Brazil vs. New Spain
- Transculturation
- Quilombo/Palenques
- Racial Mixing
- Gracias al sucar
- Mestizos
- Caste System
- Hegemony
- Patronage
- Patriarchy
- Religion
