HISTORY 347 Lecture 8: Economic Change and War
Document Summary
11/6 lecture on the 17th century: silver, trade, and war. Fear could achieve suppression during the inquisition period. Theme: coded catholicism and european culture/leadership as positive and. Negative coding comes together to create negative ideas and racism. As you got more uniformity within the cities, the idea of coexistence disappeared and more repressive measures were taken. Upcoming ideology of racism - pieces of early racism become ingredients of what becomes white supremacy. 16th century - early catholic/colonization in the new world. Philip ii of spain ruled 1556-1598 - tries to continue to expand spain"s military power and wants to keep the silver flowing from the new world. Their colonization attracts enemies and seeks more territory. They confront the ottoman empire for control of the. Battle of lepanto in 1571 was won by the spanish, but is a costly enterprise to claim you are defending all of christendom.
