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Chapter 17. Emily Bly. English. Shulush Homa. “Red Shoes” Choctaw leader Befriended frence to trade Choctaw civil war started, when he was killed by french allies. Received guns and gifts that only chiefs did. Columbian Exchange.
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Chapter 17 Emily Bly
ShulushHoma • “Red Shoes” • Choctaw leader • Befriended frence to trade • Choctaw civil war started, when he was killed by french allies. • Received guns and gifts that only chiefs did.
Columbian Exchange • Transfer of people, animals, plants and diseases between the new and old worlds. • Disease entered with slaves. - small pox - mecisles - malaria - yellow fever, etc. • New world gave old world - plant dyes, medicinal plants, cotton, tabcco.
Indentured servents • 4-7 years of labor • Passage to the new world • Later tobacco planters purchased them for life • Slave population grew
Iroquois Confederacy • Alliance amoung the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca • Rich furtrade of Canada • Coureurs de boise – helped direct the furtrade. - runners of the woods.
Religion • Catholic Church – primary transmission of Christian belief • Church became richest in Spanish colonies
Slaves • Priest Batholome de Las Casasentacted the new laws that outlawed enslavement of Amerindians • Encomienda – forced labor of Amerindians. • Manomission – granting freedom to individual slaves.
Colonial Economies • Silver mines • Sugar plantations • Mines hurt environment but helped development of urbanization • Sugar plantations dominated Brazil by the 17th century • Slave trade developed to supply labor needs of sugar plantations. Sugar Plantations