HIST110 Lecture Notes - Fide, Ninety-Five Theses, Johann Tetzel
24 Feb 2013
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Thesis must be clear, one sentence, stated in 1st or 2nd paragraph. 7 min. reference, half must be scholar/peer reviewed. Last page is works citied, alpha list of references. Ottoman becoming monopoly force in middle east, preventing supplies from entering europe. Absence of money: gold/silver to pay for eastern goods. Skilled sailors traveled down african coast and made trip to india in 1498. Had idea of going west around africa to hit east. Spaniards took possession and shipped back to spain. Europeans brought diseases to indigenous people: over 90% perished. Brutal treatment of indigenous people over 100 years. Those different from spaniards treated as inferior. Noted abuses of indigenous people in new world. Recommended that spanish crown, charles v, to stop abuses. Charles v didn"t have authority b/c of distance from new world authority, or didn"t care people those tortured were not christians.
