10/5 Class

• The Europeans believed that God killed the people they were gonna kill, using disease  
• The Columbian Exchange- had good and bad things
• Good
• Food
• Animals- beasts of burden (took the burden off of people)
• Bad
• Triangle trade- Africans
• Disease
• Encomienda system
• system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills
• Mita system
• used by Spaniards in Peru to draft native labor for the silver mines
• Mercantilism
• Economic system where the government controlled the economy to increase the power and wealth of a nation

• Carruca
• A plow used for agricultire