HIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spanish Treasure Fleet, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Private Ship
29 Sep 2016
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Hernan cortes conquered aztec empire, send charles gold and silver 70 tons, arrives at. Tenochtitlan and runs into priest that can speak spanish and native languages, slave- marie multilingual, makes alliances with native tribes, motivation is to get the mines. Francisco pizarro 1532 find the mines of the indies. 1524 council of the indies- created by charles, systemize colonize, nobility and commercial elite on the council regularity of the spanish treasure fleet attracted privateers and pirates. 1555- treaty of augsburg- decides the religion of germany- they pick protestant, charles retires, phillip- son, gets all the spanish holdings, spanish netherlands, and spain, expansion of the plantations in the americas. Piet heyn capture entire spanish treasure fleet in 1624, destroyed the spanish. The dutch and the english send privateers into the caribbean and indian oceans. Privateers- private ship owners commissioned by a soverign authority to inflict damages upon ships in service of the enemies of the crown.
