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    Global History II
    What Changes did the Spanish Conquest of South America Bring?
    DOCUMENT #1

    This drawing from the late 1500's depicts a scene from a South American village.
    1. Draw circles around the figures that represent people from Spain.
    2. Explain what change in South America is being shown here. _____________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    3. Is this a positive or a negative change? Why? ______________________________________________________________________________


    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    4. Why do most South Americans speak Spanish today? (almost 500 years after Cortes and Pizarro)
    DOCUMENT #2
    This graph shows the effects of smallpox and influenza, two diseases that native peoples have no immunity to.

    1. Between 1500 and 1620, approximately how many people died? __________________________________________________
    2. Which twenty-year period saw the most number of people died? __________________________________________________
    3. Why did so few people die between 1595-1605? ____________________________________________________________________
    _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Document #3

    Spaniards desperately needed laborers to work the plantations they built in South America. Based on this
    document, what changes did Spain bring to South America? _________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________________________
    _________________________________________________________________________________________

    Document #4
    Unscramble these words.

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