HIST-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Joint-Stock Company, Middle Passage, Mercantilism
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Cortez inspired other conquistadores, like francisco pizarro, who interacted with the incas. He went to peru after the ruler atahualpa rose to power after a civil war. Helped by allies, the spanish captured atahualpa, and they threatened to kill him if they were not given gold (the incas gave the gold but he was still killed. Why were the natives easy to conquer: the natives were easy to conquer because they were susceptible to small pox. English exploration and french exploration in north america (know important people and differences between these and spanish colonies: henry hudson tried to find a northwest passage to india, but he was killed in. 13 colonies, which grew in independence: initially, there was more and more individual thinking and thoughts of taxation w/o representation with the colonists, the colonists faced the problems of disease and starvation. Impact of spanish exploration on mesoamerican native americans: the native american (taino) population pretty much died out.