HIST 380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Pedro De Mendoza, Reductions, Spanish Architecture
1 Dec 2018
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Traveled along the rio de plata because they thought it would go straight to the andes. Pedro de mendoza founded santa mar a de los buenos aires in. 1536, where there were mainly just non-sedentary natives. However, these tribes still attacked and forced europeans to struggle and even return to europe occasionally. Impossible to establish encomiendas systems in the area due to no existing system between indigenous people. Las pampas (grassland) did not support agriculture. Trade developed, especially contraband trade, because the. Spanish did not have as much oversight there. Officials were just trying to keep those colonies alive. European livestock did very well in las pampas, more introduced animals than people. Natives learned how to ride horses and became cattle hunters, europeans also became cattle hunters. In the 18th century, these areas took off because they were tired of spanish restrictions on ports. Forced spanish to turn buenos aires into a legal port.
