Big Picture Questions
- Discuss the economic policies of the Spanish empire in relation to their
new conquests. What are the encomienda system and the repartimiento system?
How do they differ from slavery as employed by the Portuguese in Brazil and
the English in North America?
- Discuss the implications of the social hierarchies established by Europeans
in the Americas and Oceania. What is the difference between those terms applied
to race, mestizos, metis, zambos, and those terms applied to class, peninsulares,
criollos?
- How successful was the Christian conversion of the indigenous populations
in the Americas? What were the differences in the process of missionization
between these two geographic areas?