Name
Mr. Wallace
Class Global Studies -
Date January 13, 2015
Focus Question: How did Spain and Portugal build colonies in the
Americas?
A. As you read ”Ruling the Spanish Empire,” fill in the chart below to record the
steps the Spanish took to establish an empire in America. Some items have been
completed for you.
Governing
the empire
Viceroys
Catholic Church
councils.
shipped from Spain
to the Americas
Built missions and
Worked to turn
converts into loyal
O
Labor
Silver & gold
Converted
Native
Americans to
Christianity
Lesser official or
Trade
subjects of Spain.
Imposed European
Laws passed
forbidding
colonists from
trading with
other European
nations or even
with other
Spanish
colonies.
on Native
Native
Americans
forced to work
under brutal
conditions on
plantations and
in mines under
encomienda
system.
Laws passed forbidding enslavement
and abuse;
too far away to
enforce them.
African
Americas.
Americans
B. As you read “Colonial Society and Culture” and “Beyond the Spanish Empire,”
fill in the Venn diagram below to compare and contrast the Spanish and
Portuguese empires. Some items have been filled in for you.
Spanish empire
Claimed most of
South America
Portuguese empire
Native Americans
wiped out by disease.
55
Claimed Brazil
brought to the