HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ladino People
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Lecture 16: charting new worlds i: colonizers and colonized in the americas. Only key terms from second half identification. Essay questions cumulative (very broad) 3 choices. Compare and contrast early empires and modern empires. How colonial societies evolved in the americas, combining new and old elements from both - metropolitan and indigenous cultures. We know that people were european because of clothing. One kind of repeating theme, that europeans showed they were european was their sense of fashion, clothing. The dress that indigenous people were said to have were fur and leather, a theme in representations of indigenous peoples, somehow closer to nature, didn"t have ability to put distance between themselves and nature. In order to conquer the territory, the leader had to fit into the religious beliefs. The indigenous peoples were engaged in their own systems of alliances and warfare. The spaniards were able to take advantage that the indigenous people were already civilzed.
