HIST 285 Lecture 3: Hist 285 Week 3 lecture 1
7 Feb 2016
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No in class mid-term take home exam: february 12 question uploaded, due february 24 at 4pm. Titu cusi essay due february 4 at 3pm. Wednesday"s reading is a brief document on moodle. Spanish military operations and their colonial rule. Capture the cacique/leader: previous military experience from the mediterranean, hold them hostage to negotiate, cacique = noble born ruler of any region, repeat in mexico and caribbean. Use indigenous allies and capture slaves: did the indigenous believe the spanish to be gods, exploit tension and rivalries between fisherman. Aztec and inca: spanish could get up to 10,000 men to follow them as a, as they move between different areas, the merchants take military aid men, women & children then force them into military service. Exploit cultural understanding: different notions of diplomacy, spanish exploit different, use different war tactics, where they kill rather then protocols capture the enemy in indigenous cultures. Establish legal and theological rationales for invasion and control.
