HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Columbian Exchange, Huguenot, Upstate New York
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Spain is growing its empire in the americas, extracting tons of silver and gold, spending a lot in europe, stimulating european economy. In north america, spain was in the southeast and southwest. European city in north america the spanish fortress. It was a garrison town, most people were men, soldiers, bureaucrats, native, and african. It"s there to stake a spanish territorial claim in north america. In the middle of the 1600s there are french huguenots in north america. the spanish realized they needed some sort of physical outpost. St. augustine remained the capital of la florida until 1891. 1607, santa fe, like st. augustine was meant to be a spanish claim in the southwest. The southwest was run by native people at the time. Native people in the west have dealt with the columbian exchange better and avoided the waves of disease better. The spanish were most active and curious about the pueblo society.
