Chapter 18

1600-1700

Centralized bureaucracy

divided the territory in viceroyalties

Catholic church help

Syncretism

Mixture of old cults and Christianity

Expand borders

Race mixture

Pure blood

Spanish

Criollos

Mestizos

Mulatos

Economic Activity

Silver extraction

Commerce with Asia

Labor

Indigenous people

Mita

1 year of 7

Markets

Around Mines

Haciendas

Market-based agriculture

Peonage to control labor

Indigenous couldnt pay

Sons either

Economic Motivation

Gold

Sugar Plantation

Labor

Africans

Church

Jesuits

Helped

Syncretism

Mixture

Pure blood

Runaways

Inside the country

Maroons

Palmares

Independence

Capitalist interest

Dutch West India Company

Brazil

Sugar plantation

Capital Investment

Faster Ships

Larger financial ventures

More slaves

Caribbean

Sugar plantation

New Netherlands

New Amsterdam

New York

English pressure

West Indias

Great Profits

Quebec

Fur trade

Cooperation with Indigenous partners

Assimilation

First Nations

Mixed

Metis

Hurons

Fatal effects

Dieseases

French Settlers

Cheap land

Lumber

Caribbean Islands

Most Valuable posessions

West India

Great Profits

Caribbean

Sugar

Economical focal point

America

Latecomers

Less desirable land

Virginia

Tobacco

Carolina

Rice

Indigo

New England

Grain

Calvinists

Disagree with English

Self sufficient Farms

No mixture

Labor

African Slaves