HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oil Painting, Cauco, Proprietary Governor
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She is a secondary source, will give us ideas about primary sources. Wednesday: spanish myths of conquest justified their conquest on the incas. Becoming colonial: a colonial acculturation? (agree with cummins, becoming colonial, colonial consumers? (disagree with cummins) Indigenous were mandated to give up their previous ways of living. Potosi - silver mine 1545 -1650 - mita - andean commoner men extracted silver - were not paid a wage. The spanish empire appropriate indigenous andean nobility otherwise known as kurakakuna, Primary source: guaman poma; dona juana fuaman chisque, nusa, princess of the kingdom of the indies. Senoras, cvraca varmi - quechua = woman curaca. She is saying she is a big deal in different languages. Elite and their families do not have to serve the mita, not pay tribute, they get to ride horses, wear cumbi clothes, appeal to the spanish crown for titles of nobility like duke and duchess, hold swords. They are the middle people of the empire.
