Focusing on the period before 1600, describe and analyze
the cultural and economic interactions between Europe and
the Western Hemisphere as a result of the Spanish and
Portuguese exploration and settlement.
The Europeans interacted with the Western
Hemisphere both culturally by bringing religion and
diseases over and by forcing them into the encomienda
system, and economically by the exporting gold and goods
from plantations and through the encomienda system.
In the era given, the cultural and economic interactions
between Europe and the Western Hemisphere include the
establishment of the encomienda system and the
deterioration of Mesoamerica by the conquistadors as a
result of the Spanish and Portuguese exploration and
settlement.
The cultural and economic interactions resulted in cultural
changes including the destructutroduction of Native
American societies by the Spanish, and the introduction of
of Catholicism into the Americas and economic changes
including the introduction of the ecomienda system and the
start of the slave trade in Europe and the Americas.
During the 1600’s, the Spanish and Portuguese exploration
and settlement let to interactions between the Europeans
and the west where the conversions, catolicism, the
encomienda system, and the Columbian exchange occurred.
Thesis examples:
Spanish and Portuguese exploration changed the western
hemisphere through affecting natives and explorers through
trade, greed, and religion. (a start, connect examples to
culture and economics- be more specific)
Before 1600, Europe and the Western Hemisphere
interacted economically through the Columbian Exchange
and encomiendas, and culturally through missionaries, the
emergence of slavery, and intermarriage. (clear and
concise)
The Spanish and Portuguese had different impacts on the
native Western societies: the Spanish interfered
dramatically in the Indian society both culturally and
economically by colonizing the lands whereas the
Portuguese impacted the economy more than the culture
since they mostly utilized trading ports.
As a result of European exploration in the Western
Hemisphere both sides received new goods with varying
value, impacted the spread of Christianity and set up
settlements and a social structure in the new world. (a start
– interaction is the goal, like the examples)