HISTORY 3CG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Silk Road, Ruthless People, Ottoman Empire
13 Jan 2016
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New empires (especially aztec) on the mainland americas. How they came to be a part of european empires. Able to sustain large populations on squash and corn (and more but those were the largest) At its peak an est 10 million people. Spanish conquest on these two empires created combined cultures. Once the conquistadors took the empires gold and money turned toward the surviving people to make more money. Able to tie the indigenous peoples to landed states (like slave) on farms (at first) and then to mining (mainly silver) Spanish took over the authority of the incan and aztec people. Spanish worked through existing clans, headships and leaders. While the spaniards and portguese look for money in landed states it was the. Spanish who made the most money since they found silver in mexico and parts of. Spanish america exported thousands of tonnes of silver.
