INDG 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Inter Caetera, Francisco De Vitoria, Eviction

• School: Trent University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1001H
• Professor: David Newhouse

Document Summary

Policy: set of principles that guide decision making, statement of intent, usually deliberately developed. Why the new world: the goal of european individuals and groups involved in the enterprise clergy apart, was to make money for one"s self or one"s country. Amerigo vespucci, 1454-1512 mundus novus: voyages; 1499-1507, 1501 first to realize that na and sa were separate continents, letters describe the natives" religious practices and beliefs, diet, marriage habits, and most appealing, their sexual and childbirth practices. A portion of brazil be named america. Inter caetera: the papal bull inter caetera of may 4, 1493, pope alexander vi (spanish, divides the new world between spain and portugal, granted unlimited rights to spain, spain and portugal began to fight over what they got. The encomienda system, 1503: spanish organize indg peoples into communities known as reducciones, headed by a local leader, crown granted the labour of the members to conquistadors and other officials as rewards for good service.