HIST-211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: Indentured Servant, The Tudors, Gunpowder Plot
15 Sep 2020
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Britain overseas: expanding west, sabotage spain and france (catholic power). Religious rivalry is much more important than national rivalry in early modern period (17th and. 18th centuries): get rid of unwanted people (catholics, puritans, vagrants). Economy based on indentured labour, a prelude to plantation slavery: chance for profit in the trade of addictive drugs (tobacco, sugar), piracy and plunder. Britain was a late comer to the age of exploration. Cuba was first discovered by christopher columbus in 1492. Nordic explores settled and discovered the eastern coast of canada in the middle ages: columbus. Was from italy, but his voyages were sponsored by the spanish crown. Spain was the wealthiest and most powerful monarchy in europe at the time. The tudors compared to them were second rate. Spain was the most powerful european empire in the 16th century and was extremely extensive.
