LLCU 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indigenous Peoples Of Mexico, Metanarrative, Reductions

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Course: LLCU 248
• Professor: Daniel F Chamberlain

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Llcu 248 week 2 pre columbian and colonial latin america. Concept of latin america: mid 19th century european invention made up to distinguish portuguese and. Spanish speaking countries from the anglo-american world: all these countries, however, are extremely distinct, but were similar in the way that they all had histories with iberian colonial powers. Early colonial latin america: line of tordesillas, 1494. Main goal of its expansion was keep the spanish busy in south. A(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a so the(cid:455) (cid:449)ould (cid:374)ot i(cid:374)terfere (cid:449)ith portugal(cid:859)s efforts i(cid:374) Late 16th century was when brazil became a significant sugar producer for europe. Spain dominated the rest of the continent. Brought merchants, missionaries and settlers to convert the (cid:374)ati(cid:448)es to the pa(cid:374)ish (cid:272)ulture (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) 50 (cid:455)ears of colu(cid:373)(cid:271)us(cid:859) (cid:858)dis(cid:272)o(cid:448)er(cid:455)(cid:859) Settled on the caribbean islands and used the natives (the arawak people) as slaves: first great state to fall under colonial powers was mexico from 1519-1521, when.