HIST 285 Lecture 4: HIST285 Week 4 Lecture 1

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 285
• Professor: van Deusen Nancy E

Document Summary

1540; extended control of the spanish crown: the arrival of more officials to deal with excess conquerors, revamp the colonial administration. Demographic collapse, disease, forced migration, slavery, and: more deconstruction than re construction so something new crops & animals needed to be done. Complaints by friars kings ear: too many conquerors and wanted to say as they had the. Wrote about the abuses of the native population. Reports from indigenous nobles: send delegations to spain and speak about injustices, claims of abuses being heard by the king and his council. Loss of revenue and small entrepreneurial empires: crowns own desires and they lose revenue due to conquerors creating their own smaller entrepreneurial empires. Forced labour and stealing mass wealth from what the crown sees as their right to profit. Medieval feudal power that the spanish crown wants to control through an administrative structure.