HIST 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Calvin, Encomienda, Puritans
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Portuguese are sailing from the edge of western europe into the atlantic ocean. They"re interacting with northern and western african peoples. Leader of the portuguese defeats one of the african leaders. Portuguese said they left because they defeated, shows it is not a powerful military. Western europeans looking over to take over people but not having a lot of power, and having to work out how to capture/enslave people. Colonial world defined by conquest (taking over) or is it contact (neutral) Native americans want metals and the english sailers want foo. No one wants power, they just want to exchange goods. One claims that americas created a new world of curiosity for the europeans. The other claims that when the european brought over with new languages, new goods, new economy, new political structures, that was not new for native americans. Turn to a slave women for insight about the witch craze.
