MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Columbian Exchange, Merchant Capitalism, Zoonosis
23 May 2018
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Indigenous allies did not expect
Permanent sociopolitical subordination
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Spaniards to live among them
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To be homogenized as "Indians"
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Religious beliefs persecuted and destroyed
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Disease
Eurasia
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13 big domesticated animal species
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Americas the Ilama
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No immunity to zoonotic diseases
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Disease& demagogic disaster
Epidemics
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Smallpox
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Measles
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Black death
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Influenza
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typhus
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Compounded ---invasion and malnutrition
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Disease
"compounded epidemics"---involved more than one pathogen
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Death: 80 to 90 percent of population in first 100 years
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Population---preconquest levels until 20th century
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Disease and conquest
Travels south; ahead of Iberians
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Brought by native peoples in contact with Iberians
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Traveled through central America
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Weakens military opposition
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Disease and conquest
Aztec Empire
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40% of indigenous population in central Mexico died in one year
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Disease political destabilizer
Devastates political chain of command
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Military---unable to impose allegiance through war
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Andes-civil war---exploited by Iberians
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How did global mercantilism and merchant capitalism change benefit the metropoles
at the expense of the colonies?
Commodities ---sliver
People --- tribute & labor
Mercantilism
Wealth produced trade rather than production --- sell for more than you paid ---
extract wealth
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Colonialism
Metropole
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Exploits colony
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Controls trade
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Profits from colony's resources
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Enriches metropole
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Colony
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Source of raw materials
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Captive market for finished goods
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No domestic infrastructure unrelated to trade
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Colonial economy
Regulated by state
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Limited # ports
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Forbids colonies to trade with other states or even each other
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Contraband
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Merchant capitalism
Wealth creation
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Movement of goods from one market to another
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Profit---price difference
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Equally exploitative
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Columbian = global trade
Spain and Portugal primary role driving global trade
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"the grocer king"
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Portuguese supplant
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Lec19 Merchant Capitalism and Columbian
Exchange
Friday, May 18, 2018
11:07 AM
