Unit 2

Worldviews in Conflict

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 11 Summary

At the end of Chapter 11, you should be able to answer the Big Question:

  • How does cultural contact between two societies affect their identities and worldviews?

Below are the smaller questions you studied to help you answer the Big Question.


  1. How can losing a war affect a conquered people’s worldview?
  2. How can intercultural contact produce a new society that combines aspects of both original societies?


Download the graphic organizer seen in Figure 11.1 to help you review Chapter 11.

Remember to review the vocabulary for Chapter 11.

  • biodiversity
  • catastrophe
  • Creoles
  • educated guess
  • encomienda system
  • Franciscan order
  • Mestizo
  • viceroy
Figure 11.1 Chapter 11 Graphic Organizer