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Black Legend
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The misdeeds of the Spanish in the New World led to the birth of the "Black Legend." This false concept stated that the conquerors just tortured and killed the Indians, stole their gold, infected them with smallpox, and left little but misery behind.
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Encomienda
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a legal system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor.
The Spanish crown granted a conquiatador a specified number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility. The receiver of the grant was to protect the natives from warring tribes and to instruct them in the Spanish language and in the Catholic faith: in return they could extract tribute (labor) from the natives. |
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Bartolome de Las Casas(1474-1566)
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was an early and energetic advocate and activist for the rights of native peoples. reform minded Dominican friar. wrote the Destruction of the Indies in 1542 to chronicle the awful fate of the Native Americans and to protest Spanish policies in the New World. He was especially horrified at the catastrophic effects of disease on the native peoples. Also appaled by the Encomienda system in Hispaniola.
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Columbian Exchange
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Where/What: An exchange of foods, animals, &diseases between the old (western hemisphere) and the new worlds (easternhemisphere) --> culturaldiffusion.
When: 1492 after columbus arrival to new world Sig: Exploration/colonizationof the western hemisphere by Europeans looking for “God, Glory, and Gold.” •Major Effect: New fruits and vegetables are introduced to Europe, new animals to the new world. Millions of Native Americans die from European diseases. |
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Aztecs and Cortes
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1519 set sail from Cuba destined for Mexico. Along the way he rescued a Spanish castaway and also an Indian slave named Maliche (Maya and Nahuatl). Arrived in Vera Cruz hearing tales of wealth and gold. He then gathered 20,000 Indian allies and approached Moctezuma. He was seen by Moctezuma to be the god Quetzalcoatl, whose return from the eastern sea was predicted in Aztec legends. Cortés's extraneous hunger for power and gold later made him unwelcome
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