HIST-158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Repartimiento, Massive Resistance
8 Nov 2016
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Background overview common themes: population dynamic, silver boom, comparisons between regions. Both andes and mesoamerica: silver booms from 1560 to 1640. Silver booms built on pre-existing indigenous communities and states; these booms were built on those states and those communities at a time when indigenous populations were dying. Mesoamerica was dynamic and population was booming, while mexico city population was hanging around 80,000 people. Mexico city was the single dominant center for both mesoamerica and the baj o. Both andes and mesoamerica saw decline and recession, inducing a century of depression. Revival happened in spain in the 1690s. The decline in population lasted a little longer; new spain"s population hits bottom at 1620; the. Andes population doesn"t start to grow again until 1720s. Mesoamerica population fell from 4 million to 2 million. Population begins to grow from 1680s; then another cycle of boom and disease.
