HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Papal Bull, 6 Years, Concubinage
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Individual people"s behavior (on a mass scale, or as oppositional, non-elite activities. Until 1600s: africans controlled terms of exchange. 1481: papal bull aeterni regis granted land south of canary islands. 1494: t. o. t. divided globe between spain and portugal. Awarded brazil, africa (1529: and asia) to portugal. He found native americans (amerindians) instead and they had gold. Conquistador b. diaz: we came to serve god and his majesty, to give. Valladolid light to those in darkness, and also to acquire that wealth which most men covet. Cut down thick bushels and crush the sugarcane to turn into sugar. Carrying people around, carrying goods around, domestic slaves in households. Not everyone had to work in the field. Masks put over slave"s faces to limit movement and to prevent stealing food. Kept on until slave could be trusted. What main point did the professor want to convey with images of sugar production how we know about the condition of slave work conditions.
