Geography 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bartolomé De Las Casas, British Guiana, French Guiana
19 Jan 2018
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However, loose great deals of lands in the 19th century, due to intensified pressure for their land. Long periods of resistance from the maya continues to this day: maya in southern mexico as well. Agriculture: huge ecological changes: the columbian exchange: to the americas: sugar, wheat, barley, oats, cotton, coffee, bananas, rice. From the americas: maize, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, peanurts, cocoa, tobacco, beans, chile. Livestock not only much of the muscle with which exploitation of america, but was an important end product of the exploitation. The first systematic effort in drawing sugar is done by the dutch. French and the british come along as well. Incursions reflected in: french guyana, dutch guyana, british guyana. Bartolome de las casas book: appeals to spanish crown, crown: offi(cid:272)ially prote(cid:272)ts (cid:374)ati(cid:448)es fro(cid:373) sla(cid:448)ery (cid:894)fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) "tri(cid:271)ute"(cid:895) Law of the indies (1st 1542, subsequent revisions: conquistadors were given land grants which then let the indigenous peoples become slaves, but .
