USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -“Our desire is that the Christians not lack people to work their holdings and to take out what gold there is. It also is our desire that the Indians live in community with the Christians, because they then will help each other cultivate and settle the island, take out the gold, and bring profit to Spain.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Biological commodities” means living things, or things that were once alive. Examples would include domestic animals, agricultural products, microbes (bacteria and viruses), and even people-some of whom (slaves) were actually treated as commodities to be bought and sold.

Detailed explanation-3: -In many cases, the Spanish missionaries led the settlement and early government of these remote outposts. Spanish missionaries were people who were sent by the Roman Catholic Church and the Spanish royal authorities to other lands to convert people to Christianity.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Columbian Exchange allowed Catholicism to spread throughout Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean through the Spanish colonization of these areas. It also contributed to the spread of Catholicism in North America, particularly in modern-day Canada, through French colonization.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1492, Columbus brought the Eastern and Western Hemispheres back together. The resulting swap of Old and New World germs, animals, plants, peoples, and cultures has been called the “Columbian Exchange.”