CHLS 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Encomienda, New Zealand Am Class Electric Multiple Unit, Chosen People
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Development of bureaucracies double-entry booking, using decimals learned from arabs. Transferable to convert, proselytizing (made it easier for spaniards to conquer and convert people indigenous to christianity. Strep people of their language and way of living. Spain would read aloud in spanish to the indians and then covert them. The indians did not speak spanish and did not understand the spanish. This allowed to kill people for not understanding what they were say. Objective was to amass wealth, land and live a leisure life. Spaniards were westernized and were not planning to stay. Centralized systems of government consejo de indias as governing body. Imperialism face and revolution in latin america (chapter 2, gonzalez) The spector of race and the struggle for freedom. Fallow (nothing would be cultivated in the land) Semi-federal system where persons were assigned to serve a lord (encomendero) Encomienda used assigned indians to mine gold and silver.