HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gerardus Mercator, Ninety-Five Theses, Transubstantiation
17 Sep 2018
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He starts a trend as other europeans invade the americas. Everything we know about cc we know bc he told us. Cc looking for a way to india by sea going left . F and i want wealth and glory for god bc god chose them as monarchs. Can be used to preserve food longer. Ct known as nutmeg state bc we traded it not because we can actually grow it. Kills anyone who is not christian or will not recant their religion. Cc knows these are going to be dispersed. People with power were going to read and talk about it so the letters are cc"s explanation and why they should matter. Named islands after god, mary, ferdinand, and isabella. Idea of universal church is not realistic. Inquisition, people getting tortured and killed for having a different faith. Took few hundred years for christian to even get established. Spaniards not subjecting muslims to the inquisition, just pushing them out.
