MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Velhas Conquistas, Cantino Planisphere, Morocco National Football Team
23 May 2018
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How were the Americas forcefully connected to Afro-Eurasia?
Ottoman empire: Middle Eastern and North African Expansion?
Saadian Morocco
Saadian Dynasty 1509-1659
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---ruled Morcco
---blocked Eastern Ottoman expansion
Atlantic 16th conquest and colonization product of/influenced by
Long-distance oceanic trade
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Religious transformations
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Diseases
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Military revolution
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Rise of states and macro-identities
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Internal power struggles
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Cantino maps 1502
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Establishing imperium
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Requerimiento-1512 - "just war"
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Justifications
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Ethno-racial superiority
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Religious --- Christianity
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Demographic Collapse Hispaniola
By sixteenth century 1/3 of the population had died by 1496
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Spaniards import indigenous and African slaves Caribbean --- labor force
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Old conquest history
Spanish success ---military skill, intellectual superiority, technology (firepower)
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New conquest history
Role of disease
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Technology (guns) still important -but not as decisive
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Indigenous allies
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"Protein-rich crop theory"
Transition from hunting and gathering to sedentism varies by region
---Middle East 12,000 BCE ---protein-rich crops
---Latin America 4000 BCE
Maize - initially poor crop
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Beans
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---sedentism
Germs and resistance
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Weapons ---steel, trial-and error, Europeans adapt from Middle East
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Later Sedentism Patterns
Does not imply ---lazy, backward, less intelligent
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Patterns of conquest: Relay system
Conquer or make alliances in an area
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Gain a foothold and reinforcement
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Lec18 Conquest and Colonialism
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
11:08 AM
