HIST 12600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cash Crop, Estevanico, Great Lakes Region
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Bartolome de las casas- dominican priest who traveled from spain to central america (specifically guatemala) and did mission work there, converting many native americans to. Catholicism in the first half of the sixteenth century. Middle ground- both a set of relationships and a place. French had: a lot of cobbled together ideas and cultural practices, neither side liked the middle ground but were forced to like it. Middle passage- the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of africans were shipped from africa to the new world, as part of the atlantic slave trade. Significance: the millions of africans transported to the americas in the middle passage greatly shifted the demographics of the new world, and the slaves became a primary source of labor in the colonies. The columbian exchange was the biological exchange between eurasia, africa, and north. America that started after 1492, when columbus arrives in america. This included the exchange of food, animals, plants, bugs, etc.
