HIST 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Columbian Exchange, Discovery Doctrine, States Of Germany
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Women working in fields: europeans aren"t squared away with this idea, most indeginous people did assign land. Instead through warfare, occupancy, diplomatic negotiations, and histories, and maintenance of place they claimed rights to use certain lands. European land system doesn"t make much since: cared about status. Roger williams: 1629, reported no beggers among the natives, puritan colony in massachusetts. Something like what a multiple choice question would be like. European peoples brought old world ideals to shape new world people. Non-christian peoples resided in the americas: we must educate the heathens. Law is how the english distinct themselves from the indians: how they justified such brute force, colonists claim title over lands by promoting the discovery doctrine. Indigenous people aren"t christian, so we can take their land. Indians did not have private property: a justification for making their lands private property of the english, owning private property is a modern goal, they were not modern.
