HIS-2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Encomienda, Columbian Exchange, Pertussis
10 Oct 2017
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Disease- small pox, diphtheria, typhus, whooping cough, influenza. European colonization: spanish in south america, caribbean, central america, florida, texas, english in east coast, jamaica, bahamas, some central america, french in quebec, make factories along waterways, new orleans, dutch and swedish on east coast. Indian policy- inclusive: spanish and french exclusive: english. Spanish want to convert indians to catholicism, had spent centuries expelling the. French and english want conversion too but less frantic. Spanish want to enslave indians> give power to people over indians by the encomienda system- land grant and indians on land.
