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Exploration and Encounter

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1 Exploration and Encounter
The Columbian Encounter and Exchange

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5 Map of the World? see page 45

6 Beginning of the Spanish Empire
Columbus expeditions (sponsored by King and Queen of Spain- 1492, 1493, 1498, 1502 Impetus: new route to Asia “The New World”- western perspective There were sophisticated and ancient civilizations thriving in this “new world”

7 Beginning of the Spanish Empire
see page 48- Columbian encounter Naked physically meant naked culturally and open to conversion 1496- Hispaniola conquered- slavery begins

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9 New Spain 1500 current day Mexico controlled by the Aztecs- Conquered by Hernan Cortes in 1519 (with only 600 hundred men) Peru controlled by Incas- conquered by about 200 soldiers under Francisco Pizzaro

10 The Black Legend The conquests were brutal- thereby creating a myth of Spanish cruelty “Black Legend” 1550 Charles V brought together people to discuss this issue (note that he is also King Charles I of Spain)

11 Black Legend Just war? Were the Natives barbaric, as suggested by Charles: “indigenous populations were savage and barbarous and inhuman people with no god and no laws and it was natural that advanced societies should rule over lesser ones”


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