CAS HI 151 Lecture 6: Import African slaves b
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Women came also conquest goal turned to settlement c. gold hunting phase initial then replaced by sugar plantations: treatment of natives enslavement, disease, murder 7. Attempts at reform: clerics and priests tried to end abuses, bartolome d las casas wrote of complaints e. the paths of. Conquest: taking over central mexico between 1519 and 1535 a. Not a movement, but series of individual initiatives b. cortez defeats aztecs in. Tenochtitlan: taking over south america a. pizarro and incas peru by 1540, further exploration a. Densely populated areas first, then went after semisedentary/nomadic b. coronado searches for gold goes into us c. 1570 192 spanish cities and towns: the conquerors 1. Motivation: 1/5 of all treasure to crown, money then divided among men signed up, priority to friends/relatives 2. Types of people that were conquerors: hoping to improve selves b. Serve god by conquering heathen c. soldiers, gentlemen, some women d. saw selves as new nobility: reasons for spanish success a.
