HIST 8B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iberian Peninsula, Patronato Real, Columbian Exchange
Trans-Atlantic Contact
Experiences that influenced what happpened in the Indies and how the Spaniards were to deal
with the indios
● Reconquista: Catholics taking away Spain from the Moors; waged war for 70 years
■ justifies Spain’s power within Spain and in America
■ limpienza de sangre: always Catholic and European; gave people who
claimed limpienza de sangre administrative positions (gave edge and
access of positions of power)
○ 14th cent Conquest of Canarias
○ 15th and 16th cenntury consiladition of Monarchy in Spain through Church and
State amalgamation: Patronato Real- Pope recognizes the king of Spain is
leading force against infidel: gave king power to intervene in politics of the church
○ Interenthic and intercultural contact
○ econmiendas: land granted to warriors fighting in religious wars against the
Moors
○ carribbean islands
○ african islands
○ convidencia: living with different diverse cultures in Iberian peninsula (Moors,
Jews, Castilians)
■ many religious wars during this period
■ Moors lose Granada to Spain in 1492
Portuguese Expansion
● Project commerical and military around Africa in 15th and 16th century
● Independent kingdom state from Castile
● Commericial domination= political power
● Beginning of commercial capitalism
Sugar
● Sugar plantations on the African Atlantic Islands: Madeira, Azores, Canary
● Plantations rely on labor of slaves from North and West Africa
Columbian Exchange
● Europeans and Indigenous people from the Americas meet for the first time
● The European invasion introduced a great range of agricultural products and domestic
animals to the new world
● Mode of production was revolutionized
● Ecological impact was catastrophic in some areas
● Introduction of wheat, grapes, olives, cattle, horses, chickens, large dogs, cats, pigs,
sheep and goats
● Europeans introduce advanced technologies: iron tools, fire arms, transport and
navigation systems, architecutal vaults
● Money economy introduced into native society; dislocates native social economies
○ impoverishes the indigenous
Agricultural Exchanges
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Document Summary
Experiences that influenced what happpened in the indies and how the spaniards were to deal with the indios. 15th and 16th cenntury consiladition of monarchy in spain through church and. State amalgamation: patronato real- pope recognizes the king of spain is leading force against infidel: gave king power to intervene in politics of the church. Econmiendas: land granted to warriors fighting in religious wars against the. Convidencia: living with different diverse cultures in iberian peninsula (moors, Moors lose granada to spain in 1492. Project commerical and military around africa in 15th and 16th century. Sugar plantations on the african atlantic islands: madeira, azores, canary. Plantations rely on labor of slaves from north and west africa. Europeans and indigenous people from the americas meet for the first time. The european invasion introduced a great range of agricultural products and domestic animals to the new world. Ecological impact was catastrophic in some areas.
