HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spanish Navy, Smallpox, Military Technology
11 Dec 2017
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Why was the spanish empire able to conquer so much: military technology (guns, armor, canons, horses, able to exploit divisions around the, Defeat aztecs and incas by getting native american allies: microbes: diseases from europe (small pox a(cid:374)d (cid:373)easles(cid:895) (cid:396)esulted i(cid:374) the (cid:862)g(cid:396)eat d(cid:455)i(cid:374)g:(cid:863) 90-95% of indian population died from these diseases. The conquistadors would stop at nothing to get what they wanted (wealth/riches from the new world)- very brutal. Who are the conquistadors: columbus (1492): sent out to western hemisphere. When he landed in the new world, he noticed all of gold jewelry the indians had. He set up taxes on gold that they had to pay to the spanish. He set up salve trade to espanola and back. He goes to mexico city to conquer the aztecs. They welcome him there and then cortes e(cid:454)e(cid:272)utes the azte(cid:272)"s (cid:272)hief. Pa(cid:374)ish a(cid:396)e a(cid:271)le to (cid:373)ake allies a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:395)ue(cid:396) the.
