HIST 2055 Lecture : Lecture 2
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The huns carry the plague to europe. Sailors are so scared they flee ship and still get plague. Effects of plague: the plague only killed people, it didn"t destroy property, so people inherit property from dead realitives, so many people become wealthy, death changes the way one thinks, think more about living in the moment. They"re more concerned with physical than spiritual lives. Spain, kind queen of spain then send them back: columbus goes back with more settlers, pigs, and cows, these pigs cows and settlers cause rapid destructions on. Espa ola : this exchange of animals, people, and disease became known as the columbian exchange. The spanish empire is expansionist and extractive: spain creates a giant empire, to convert indians to catholicism, greedy, between the years 1500-1650 shipped 200 tons of gold and. 16000 tons of silver; created the largest transfer of wealth in history, made them extremely powerful: 2.
