New World 2
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- What is a colony?
- Land that is ruled by another country
- Colonists
- people who lived in the colony
- New Spain
- land in North America and South America that Spain ruled
- Capital of New Spain
- Mexico City
- Because the Spanish wanted gold...
- many colonists worked in gold and silver mines, but more workers were needed.
- Thousands of Spanish people came to
- New Spain.
- Native Americans were first used, but they died of ...
- poor treatment and disease brought by the Europeans.
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- Spanish priest who tried to improve the way Indians were treated.
- Spanish Borderlands
- The Spanish built forts (presidios) along the border of the lands that they claimed in order to protect the colonists and their mines
- The border is also called a
- Buffer Zone
- St. Augustine
- The first permanent European settlement in the New World.
- Castillo de San Marcos
- the only still standing structure from the early Spanish settlement of St. Augustine. This fort protected the CITY.
- Why did the Spanish use coquina shells to build the fort?
- The shells were soft and strong and ony dented when cannonballs struck the fort.
- Why did the King in Spain give the leadership of the colonies to the local Spanish rulers?
- It was a way to reward the King's favorite people, and it made it easier to rule the colonists.
- Horses
- The Spanish introduced the horse to the North American Indians.