Compare and contrast the Spanish and English conquest of the New World.
Unit 1 Discussion Question:
Answer the following question with a minimum of 250 words. Be sure to cite from the Davidson text, lecture, and primary sources in your answer. After you post your answer, be sure to respond to at least two other students. In the discussion boards, the best answers will provide references to several different sources, as well as consider all sides of a given question.
Compare and contrast the Spanish and English conquest of the New World. Your answer should at a minimum address how Spanish and English colonists dealt with indigenous peoples; to what extent, or in what ways religion influenced each nations’ colonial endeavors; and how the colonial societies established by Spain and England differed from each other. Feel free to reflect on other issues as well in your analysis of the colonial projects of these two European powers. Your answer must cite material from the primary sources, lecture and Davidson textbook.
Unit 2 Discussion Question:
Answer the following question with a minimum of 250 words. Be sure to cite from the Davidson text, lecture, and primary sources in your answer. After you post your answer, be sure to respond to at least two other students. In the discussion boards, the best answers will provide references to several different sources, as well as consider all sides of a given question.
Reflect on the ways in which social, racial, political, and religious conflict changed the thirteen mainland British colonies from the period 1607-1750. In your answer spend some time evaluating how these different conflicts might have made the thirteen colonies different than Great Britain itself, and speculate on the connections between the divisions present in the colonies and the eventual war for independence in the 1770s
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