GGR341H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Geopolitics, Humid Continental Climate, Contiguity
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Encomienda: quasi-feudal system, indigenous communities were forced to give. Spaniards their land for protection, religion (catholicism), and language. *mita: mandatory public service that existed in the incan empire as a form of tribute to the ruling king by which each community had to offer some hours of work in mines. The spaniards turned it into permanent forced labour. Haciendas: large land holdings, minding or agriculture. Plantations: production of a single crop for global market slave workforce, replaced subsistence agriculture threatening local food security. Estancias: cattle and sheep ranches southern part chile, argentina. A lot of land concentration, and exploitation. Consenquences: didn"t invest on infrastructure, manufacturing everything was based on resource extraction, transportation and communication were poor . Consequences of the colonial rule and forms of land tenure. Installed racist policies and beliefs, superiority of whiteness; hierarchical system where criollos (children of spaniards) loose their parents" rights. Children of spaniards are not allowed to rule.
