LTS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Machu Picchu, Spanish Empire, South America
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Americas inhabited w/ diverse indigenous groups: own cultures & highly advanced & developed societies( involved w/ environment) Indigenous died of disease & colonized by spanish & portuguese: do not disappear, continue to exist, coexist in multiracial/ethnic varieties, exert a presence in americas, w/ culture & folkways. Was not just central & south america: mexico, south america, going all the way down to what is today uruguay, argentina, buenos. Aires, chile, paraguay: even us, puerto rico, cuba, dr, trinidad & tobago. English resettle old european empires: nyc (once controlled by dutch) In the 1400"s: you had portuguese who had setup islands off course of africa, engaged in slave trading, went back to spain & portugal. Use of native americans: spanish and brazilian empire, brazilian empire. Indigenous folk were slaves until 1758: enslaved alongside africans, spanish empire, start to experiment w/ nat. amer, overtime nat. amer.
