Did New England towns resemble medieval European cities

1.Did New England towns resemble medieval European cities? Answer yes or no, discuss 3 arguments and provide examples.

1. Did the age of colonization allow for the formation of a New World oligarchy in Spanish and English colonies? Answer yes or no, and identify and explain 3 arguments in support of your answer.
2. Were ‘Old World diseases’ the most effective allies that Europeans had in conquering the Americas? Identify and discuss 2 arguments.
3. What was the fundamental distinction between a conquistador and a planter in the 16th century? Identify and discuss 3 arguments, and provide examples by drawing upon the expeditions of Hernán Cortés and Christopher Newport.
4. Did the institution of encomienda play a role in the Spanish age of colonization? vIdentify and explain 3 arguments, and provide examples.
5. Was the process of acculturation between American peoples and Europeans an even process? Answer yes or no, and identify 3 arguments in support of your answer.
6. Was religious orthodoxy a fundamental idea behind the Spanish and the English expansion to the Atlantic? Answer yes or no, and provide and discuss 3 historical examples.
7. How did Europe’s ‘Renaissance curiosity’ promote violence against the Indian? Define and describe 3 arguments, and provide examples by drawing upon the history of the conquest of the Mexica, the Anglo-Powhatan wars, and the conquest of Algonquin tribes.
8. What did Bartolomé De Las Casas write against Spanish encomenderos? Discuss 2 arguments, by drawing upon the document entitled Destruction of the Indies(handout)?
9. Once Spain put the lands of its colonies into production, what were Spain’s global economic advantages? How did the colonies contribute to Spain’s new global economic power?Identify and describe 3 arguments.
10. Did the New World’s geography play a role in the success of the Spanish enterprise of discovery and conquest? Answer yes or no, and provide 3 examples by drawing upon the Spanish conquest of the cities of Tenochtitlán, Tlaxcala, and Cuzco.
11. Compare and contrast 3 aspects of land rights in Spanish and English colonies. Where did Europeans enjoy more freedom pertaining to land, in Spanish American colonies or in English colonies?Identify and explain 3 arguments, and provide examples