CHLS 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Encomienda, Chosen People

• School: CSULB
• Department: Chicano and Latino Studies
• Course: CHLS 350
• Professor: Dr.Victor Rodriguez

Document Summary

The conquest: factors: social technology, development of bureaucracies double-entry booking, using decimals learned from arabs. Factors: conquest: european brand of christianity, not too ethnic like judaism. Strep people of their language and way of living: (cid:862)chosen people(cid:863) Land and prestige: latifundio complex was developed in the americas, objective was to amass wealth, land and live a leisure life. Spaniards were westernized and were not planning to stay: ce(cid:374)t(cid:396)alized syste(cid:373)s of go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:862)co(cid:374)sejo de i(cid:374)dias(cid:863) as go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:271)ody. Encomienda: semi-fede(cid:396)al syste(cid:373) (cid:449)he(cid:396)e pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)s (cid:449)e(cid:396)e assig(cid:374)ed to se(cid:396)(cid:448)e a (cid:862)lo(cid:396)d(cid:863) (cid:894)e(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)de(cid:396)o(cid:895) Arabs and moors served a spanish lord: encomienda used assigned indians to mine gold and silver. The (cid:862)e(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)de(cid:396)o(cid:863) (cid:449)as supposed to p(cid:396)ote(cid:272)t the i(cid:374)dia(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d ch(cid:396)istia(cid:374)ize the(cid:373). Pueblos followed a spanish planning design: plaza and ayuntamiento (city hall) and the church built around the plaza. Imperialism face and revolution in latin america (chapter 2, gonzalez) Race in latin america: the (cid:862) pe(cid:272)to(cid:396)(cid:863) of race and the struggle for freedom.