ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pwn, Encomienda, Agrarian Reform
4 Nov 2017
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Profits made from resource extraction and trade in the new world (largely latin. Investment in inventors that developed the steam engine and the weaving loom. Basically the capital raised in latin america was largely responsible for funding. Additionally, new england entrepreneurs and rum traders used their profits to the industrial revolution open a foundry that supplied the guns to george washington and the rebel troops in their resistance against britain. American trade and dependence on regional and human exploitation. The american revolution was arguably funded by the funds raised by latin. There were many complex civilizations in latin america before europeans. Indians trying to secure recognized territory in their countries. Caudillos filled the power vacuum in the more rural areas outside of cities. Typically a wealthy landowner with dominion over dozens or hundreds of. Important historical structure because it laid the foundation for later la dictators.
