HIST 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caravel, Smallholding, Calvinism
18 Nov 2016
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France and britain aimed for weak colonies to take over. Capital-money you earn you haven"t immediately spent. Merchant adventurer-went out on ships armed to trade and take from people. The food would just sit out and rot so spices were a hot commodity. Caravel- the ships they used, built from the inside out, never sunk. Mercantilism-created legal framework for global market in european goods. When the merchants went to big tribes, they didn"t want violence because they would lose. The european man and the african woman would have kids. Cortes and his killers the conquistadors marched into mexico and killed an indigenous culture. They forced women to marry them and start families. Balanced male and female immigration from britain to the first colonies. Because of rising population, they had to move the indians west. Aristocratic younger sons become planters in america. Wealth went to first son in england, even if he was dumb.
