Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Europe & the Americas: Spain – conquest & colonisation

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "Europe & the Americas: Spain – conquest & colonisation"— Presentation transcript:

1 Europe & the Americas: Spain – conquest & colonisation
Early modern period general Lecture 13 Simon Ditchfield

2 Columbus the discoverer: of a ‘new’ world?
The intrepid hero

3 Cortes the conqueror: the clash of civilisations?
Hernan Cortes (c ) The destruction of an empire

4 Pizarro the adventurer: treacherous thug?
Francisco Pizarro ( ) Arrival of Pizarro & de Almagro in Peru (1530)

5 Spain: a 700-year crusade Reconquista Santiago matamoros

6 Spain: a Catholic empire
Ferdinand & Isabella Santiago matamoros

7 Portuguese preconditions
Henry the Navigator Portuguese explorations

8 Dividing the spoils (before they were even won)

9 The ‘T-O’ map of the world
The geography of I The ‘T-O’ map of the world Hartmann Schedel Liber chronicorum, 1493

10 The geography of II

11 Columbus’s voyages

12 Cortes & the ‘conquest’ of Mexico
Cortes & la Malinche Cortes’ campaigns

13 Tenochtitlan: wonder of the world

14 Cortes, Malinche & Moctezuma
Communicating power Human sacrifice Cortes, Malinche & Moctezuma

15 Lienzo de Tlaxcalla (1520s)
Moctezuma’s end Florentine Codex (c.1550) Lienzo de Tlaxcalla (1520s)

16 Tawantinsuyu: a recent empire
Cuzco (Qosqo)

17 Inca wealth & Power I Quipu

18 Inca wealth & Power II Cuzco’s walls today Machu Picchu

19 Coup de main at Cajamarca
Execution of Atahuallpa

20 A slow conquest

21 The Devastation of the Indies: a brief account (1552)
The human cost I Bartolome de las Casas ( ) The Devastation of the Indies: a brief account (1552)

22 The human costs II: the ‘Columbian exchange’

23 Some myths of conquest The achievement of a few great men
Conquistadors had been sent by their King Conquest achieved & Colonialism rapidly imposed Conquest reduced Americas to a native void Innate European superiority

24 Religious Identities

25 Big science

26 Globalisation


Download ppt "Europe & the Americas: Spain – conquest & colonisation"

Similar presentations


Ads by Google