What Were Some Of The Main Food Contributions From The New World To The Old World History Summary
1) What does it mean to be a “mestizo”?
a. “Mestizo” means to be of mixed ancestry.
2) What were some of the main food contributions from the New World to the Old World? Name at least 7.
a. Some main food contributions from the New World to the Old World are corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, different types of beans, sweet potatoes, chocolate, peanuts, and sugar.
3) Before contact, which average person was better off, according to the video: The one from Europe or the one from the Americas? Why?
a. According to the video, the average person was better off from the Americas than Europe because they were better feed. There weren’t as many no pigs, cows, goats, nor the diseases that accompanied the animals, like measles and small pox.
4) In …show more content…
According to Maria Martinez, the unions between the conquerors and indigenous women helped consolidate the Spanish ruling because: “how do you created an empire…without a standing army.” The ruling promoting kinships between decedents and Spanish families that will produces a populations of mixed ancestry that will tend to identify with Spanish doings and cultures, and the children are to be raised in a Spanish household.
6) What was the Spaniards justification to taking gold and silver from America to Europe?
a. The Spaniard justification to taking gold and silver was that they believed that it was their natural right as the superior culture, in the Spaniards way of ranking.
7) Narrate the story of Potosi (mines and city) according to the video and specifically mention the metaphor made by …show more content…
a. According to Garcilaso de la Vega, the ultimate beneficiaries of the riches were bankers and business men of other countries.
9) According to Garcilaso de la Vega, who were the ultimate beneficiaries of the riches that came to Spain from the New World?
a. According to Garcilaso, Catholicism in the New world was different from the Old World, by starting to fill its calendars with new important holidays, documenting marriages, birthday, deaths, and even creating a new sense of time.
10) Throughout the centuries, what has been the outcome of the political, economic and religious negotiations between the indigenous component and the Spaniard component of the
a. “Mestizo” means to be of mixed ancestry.
2) What were some of the main food contributions from the New World to the Old World? Name at least 7.
a. Some main food contributions from the New World to the Old World are corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, different types of beans, sweet potatoes, chocolate, peanuts, and sugar.
3) Before contact, which average person was better off, according to the video: The one from Europe or the one from the Americas? Why?
a. According to the video, the average person was better off from the Americas than Europe because they were better feed. There weren’t as many no pigs, cows, goats, nor the diseases that accompanied the animals, like measles and small pox.
4) In …show more content…
According to Maria Martinez, the unions between the conquerors and indigenous women helped consolidate the Spanish ruling because: “how do you created an empire…without a standing army.” The ruling promoting kinships between decedents and Spanish families that will produces a populations of mixed ancestry that will tend to identify with Spanish doings and cultures, and the children are to be raised in a Spanish household.
6) What was the Spaniards justification to taking gold and silver from America to Europe?
a. The Spaniard justification to taking gold and silver was that they believed that it was their natural right as the superior culture, in the Spaniards way of ranking.
7) Narrate the story of Potosi (mines and city) according to the video and specifically mention the metaphor made by …show more content…
a. According to Garcilaso de la Vega, the ultimate beneficiaries of the riches were bankers and business men of other countries.
9) According to Garcilaso de la Vega, who were the ultimate beneficiaries of the riches that came to Spain from the New World?
a. According to Garcilaso, Catholicism in the New world was different from the Old World, by starting to fill its calendars with new important holidays, documenting marriages, birthday, deaths, and even creating a new sense of time.
10) Throughout the centuries, what has been the outcome of the political, economic and religious negotiations between the indigenous component and the Spaniard component of the