WOH 2022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Atlantic Slave Trade, Left Coast, Lateen
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Notable for his contributions with maps, compass, astrolabe, caravel, lateen sail. No horses or bigger animals to carry goods*: netherlands, butch, (northwest) --- dutch east india company, england (northwest, france (northwest) Proved that the world was round and you can go around but they were not sure how to circumnavigate around. Righteous christianity inspired by reconquista (spread the religion) (reconquista drove. Usurpation of political systems (took over sophisticated societies and took control) Division within aztec and incan empires (decentralized maya conquered by 18th century) Contagious disease (smallpox wiped out whole regions of a population) Royal and supreme council of the indies 1523. -conversion, cultural assimilation (many converted because they saw that was the way life was going to be; difficult to challenge the authority) Granted military followers right to native labor (if you were a military man of the proper rank you were allowed labor on your property/farm)
