GCU 114 Study Guide - Janissaries, Tokugawa Shogunate, Aurangzeb
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Group labor systems (mit"a) and tributary states (aztec taking over governments, but letting the locals rule global: ottoman, tang) European contact, cortes defeats aztecs, takes land and converts them to slaves. End: forced labor systems (encomienda, rehashed mit"a) in sugar plantations and silver mines. Changing point: european contact, see left; treaty of tordesillas. End: establishment of spanish vice royalty, power to spanish officials, discontinuation of. Aztec tributary systems and they are converted into slavery. Cont: centralized authority (aztec/incan rulers were sons of god, spanish officials) Elites still used as political beings even after spain. Polytheism, the ruler was the son of the sun lltgod. Catholic church became primary agent for religious change. Beginning: social power in hands of aztec ruler, aristocrats, elites, very distinct social classes. End: aztecs fall in social rankings, most indigenous people forced into labor systems or slavery, ethnic boundaries are erased ultimately.