HIST 103g Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bartolomé De Las Casas, Gilded Age, Smallpox
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Road to the mainland - moving from caribbean to mainland. New worlds, new problems - transformation of world for both sides. 1500-40: age of conquistadors - time of americas in raw transformation, major upheaval, fierce competition and instability for europeans in americas. 1513 florida - searches for fountain of youth. Bring men on the make look for gold & profit. Cortes" turn: feb 1519: 11 ships, 500 men, 15 horses. Military powers - reconquista, aztecs conquering and establishing tributes. Religious impulse - appease gods in warfare, or crusades. Geronimo de aguilar vs gonzalo guerrero - shipwrecked and survived. Geronimo held onto spanish identity, guerrero integrates with local people, becomes warrior, marries local woman. Dona marina, la malinche - taken captive, becomes lover of. Moctezuma killed: june 29, 1520 - sparks revolts against spanish. Noche trieste: june 30, 1520 - spanish forced to retreat. Tribute to new ruler - spanish instead of aztecs.
