HIS 126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Inca Mythology
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Journal on pocahontas will be assigned next class; see bb for readings. Don"t forget about the modules - due november 2nd! Sets up colonies for gold and god #money. Send priests and warriors because god and gold is the goal. They will reorganize village life in order to recreate european style villages with the church at the center. This will require indigenous women to serve in missions and elite households. The tax on the production of cotton will continue; will increase signi cantly until spanish colonial rule. Expected to cook, clean, domestic work in missions and elite households. The double burden put on women, where they are required to work in missions/elite households and then go home and care for their own families. Aztec + incan women often married to spanish conquistadors. Some will refuse to marry the conquistadors; all women will be taking a calculated risk in whether or not to marry the conquistadors.
