HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Greater Antilles, Encomienda, Matthew Restall
5 Dec 2020
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Conquest of the aztecs: bakewell, history of latin america, chapters 4-6, crosby, alfred, conquistador y pestilence: the first new world pandemic and the fall of the great indian. Spanish conquistadores over aztec and incan empires cort s and pizarro. Explanations for defeat: advantage of steel over stone, cannon and firearms over bows and arrows and slings, prophecies in indian mythology about arrival of white gods. Spaniards had a formidable ally disease. Before europe brought together the world, men at sea moved slowly, seldom over long distances and across oceans. Mutation, ecological changes and migration could bring likes of black death to europe. Ecological stability tended to create a mutual toleration between human host and parasite. Migration of man was main cause of epidemics. Spectacular period of mortality was european contact with africa. Most deadly epidemics in new world: smallpox, measles, plague, typhus etc.
