ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tlaxcaltec, Quetzalcoatl, Eurocentrism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Thomas Douglas

Document Summary

Hernando cortez: leader of a spanish group who left cuba in search of a route to china/india. Protocapitalism to capitalism: blaut argues that the new wealth from the americas allows europe to develop a growing middle class who will take political power for themselves and develop europe into a set of. Protestant nations, then later in the catholic nations. John calvin also claimed that the rising middle class was god"s elect and they had a right to hold political power. With help from the duke of saxony, luther would escape any punishment from. Emperor charles, but the emperor would declare luther to be an outlaw. Luther, however, would continue to thrive and he developed a large following both during his long life and afterwards. Duke frederick of saxony: the duke of saxony rescued martin luther from a likely execution sentence from emperor.