HISTORY 142A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unfree Labour, Tabula Rasa, Indentured Servant
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Spanish conquest and colonization results in demographic catastrophe for. Colonization of "alta: california: defensive measure by threatened and staggering spanish empire. Alta ca: moderately successfully settlement led by franciscan missionaries. Missions: based on enforced indian labor, spanish military presence, and supplies from central mexico. Spain/mexico "hold" on to ca" always tenuous and coastal (interior is indian. Spain/mexico "hold" on to ca" always tenuous and coastal (interior is indian country) Then they harvested a bunch of stuff from the americas and brings it back to. Enables spanish colonization, conquest, settlement of indigenous groups. Lots of debate about how conscious of a tool that it was. Europeans probably didn"t know that their bodies were carrying something that would cause so many in the americas to die off. Doesn"t reach california until 1820s but other diseases hit california before then. Europeans infected natives instead of vice versa mostly. They"ve been living very closely for centuries and centuries and centuries.
