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What were the four main impacts of overseas discoveries and colonisation? |
1) Economy and trade 2) Consumption 3) Knowledge, science and technology 4) Attitudes to 'the other' and European Identity |
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What was the three main points that colonisation and discovery had on the impact on the economy? |
- A new urban geography, the emergence of new commercial ports in Europe - The colonies: a new market for European goods - Limited effects on the Spanish economy |
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What were the two main points that colonisation and discovery affected in consumption? |
- New uses of gold and silver: Elite conspicuous consumption in Europe and Asia - But lower classes also affected: New baroque style implemented & new crops, foodstuffs and new substances. Ambivalent reception of some new products |
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What were the two different attitudes Europeans held regarding the New World? |
Torn beween: - conservative idea of knowledge based on reverence for the ancients - a positive idea of nature as source of endless wonders (Pliny's Natural History) Tabacco & Syphilis: miraculous remedies and vice and lethal diseases previously unknown |
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What were 4 new contributions to the field of knowledge, science and technology? |
- The contribution of voyages to sciences and instruments vital to navigation - The 'scientific revolution' a cross- cultural enterprise - The role of local informants, and of sailor, merchants and missionaries in the global circulation of knowledge - New interests for the learned: the natural sciences; ethnography. 'Cabinet of Curiosities' |
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What were two different attitudes Europeans had about the South American Native Populations? |
- Cruel, barbarian, immoral, inferior, irredeemable pagans? In need of being civilised OR - Innocent, harmless, child-like, in need of protection Bartolomé de Las Casas, A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies |
