POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anti-Globalization Movement, Human Capital Flight, Corporatism
23 Mar 2017
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Pol218 lecture january 18, 2017 mexico. Indigenous civilizations: two handicaps these civilizations ad: they could only grow corn and there were no big animals to raise for cattle. Aztec empire: 1300 ce -> capitol was tenochtitlan, they were a stratified society, they were expansionist. In order to capture slaves: they practiced human sacrifice to the gods with the pow. New spain: encomienda system; institutions where land was granted to a spanish soldier and his workers. Peninsulas (high society), criollos (lower hierarchy), mestizos (mixed people) indigenous people: mestizos became the majority, the indigenous people are seen as lower class and backwards. But yet indigenous heritage plays a big part in the mexican identity: the huge role of the catholic church: in colonization. Inspired by the french & american revolutions: miguel hidalgo: a simple priest. War and losses (1820s 1860s: texas was unpopulated, so they allow us settlers to have land. Lots of them comes to the point where they outnumber mexicans.
