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conquestofamericas_1.pptxHistory 015
Conquest of the Americas
Columbus
Columbus was
searching
for India:
Indigenous
peoples today
are “Indians
The Conquest
First the Spanish conquistadors fell on their knees and then they fell on the aborigines.
CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS-Cortes and La Malinche
La Malinche
Nahua from the East Coast of Mexico.
Slave to Cortez, Lover, Mother of his first son, Martin
La Malinche
Translator for Cortez
Traitor to Mexico???
Mother of Mexico???
Spanish Drawing of Cortez
Cortez conquered in 1519 –easy because all the conquered people hated the Aztecs.
Cortez at Vera Cruz
Mexicans did not defend
the Aztecs, but they
resisted colonialization by the
Spaniards
Mexican Resistance
The Mexican Revolution 1910.
Mexican Resistance
Look at the
movement in
modern Chiapas
The Conquest of Peru
Pizarro
Pizzaro conquered the Incas in 1531, the Incas had been embroiled in conflicts over succession since 1525
The Great Dying—Spanish Drawing
Small pox from the
Spanish in Mexico had
decimated the population
since the 1520’s.
The Americas
Small Pox—1518 to 1600 17 epidemics
From Modern Argentina to Texas and the Carolinas
Indigenous peoples were forced to do slave labor
Due to illness and hard labor fertility rate was low
Mexico 1519 25 million 1569 2.7 million 1619 750,000 people
90% of the Indigenous peoples were killed in the first 100 years of conquest.
The Americas
The Incas
Incas resisted for at least another 100 years
Modern movement Shining Path or Sendero Luminoso—based on the culture of the indigenous peoples and Maoism.
Pizarro
Pizarro & Incas-Spanish Painting
The Americas--Labor
Labor
Spanish did not like to do manual labor
Labor in the Americas
The Catholic Church decided that the Indigenous population had souls and therefore could not be enslaved.
Labor in the Americas
Repartimiento system—forced all Indigenous peoples into small towns so they could feed and clothe the Spanish.
The Americas
Silver
In the beginning the Spanish just looted the Aztec and Inca kingdoms for gold and silver—so the Great Dying did not harm the gathering of loot.
Silver
1545 Potosi—largest production of silver—needed workers
Silver
For the Spanish—Potosi meant being rich for the Indigenous peoples it meant “the mouth of hell.”
Silver
1503 to 1660-32 million pounds of silver
Llamas carrying Silver
Silver
Spanish monarchs wanted silver to fund their wars to try and conquer the rest of Europe
Dutch, English and Italian merchants then used the silver to trade with Asia-especially China
China’s Economy and the Americas
75% of the silver from the Americas from 1500 to 1800 went to China
