HIST 203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Centralized Government, Middle Ages, John Sassamon
18 Dec 2019
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Europe in the middle ages: 700a. d 1500a. d. Social stability (died in the same status you"re born in) Kings (asks nobility to pass laws & raise taxes) Nobility (wealthy men, laws ran through them; run europe) Pope (can tell the nobility what to do) Spanish inquisition- torture was ordered to anyone believed not to be a catholic (1478). Pope says the nobility must give f&i all the money & soldiers they need to drive out the moors. Noble savages uncivilized person; has a sort of freedom; human beings in their natural state) Hernando cortez (1519): aztecs- techochtitlan (largest army during the 1500"s) empire soon falls to hernando cortez. He uses the people conquered by the aztecs to fight back. The problem: planting sugar requires a lot of people. The pay was a huge piece of land as wells as the workers of the land (slavery). Bartolome de las casas: exposed the oppression of indigenous peoples by europeans in the.
