GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: African Diaspora, Columbian Exchange, Mestizo
6 Feb 2019
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Baptisms-within months of hernan cortez arriving in mexico the first baptisms took place. Dia de los muertos: significance is that they found a way to still maintain their culture amidst all of the changes. Virgin mary: significance is that she represents mexican culture, she is not white, she is mestiza. 6 million people came to the catholic church by choice, not by force. Financial center--while the crown collected its royal fifth from the elite, the church collected 10 % from every (tyding) Administrative center: function next or above the spanish civil government. Missions played a key role in colonizing the us. Franciscans founded 40 thriving missions in florida and the midwest. Most of the cities founded in the us founded by missions. Oldest city in us: settled and established by the spanish st. augustine. Serve as an acculturation center: agricultural practice, culture, and religions. Most common language in the americas: spanish and portuguese, due to treaty de tordesillas.
