HIST135 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Patronato Real, Smallpox, Aztec Codices
8 Oct 2018
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Iberian territory: similar to encomienda grants of indian labor. In both contexts, christians viewed victories as a sign that god was with them: missionaries saw converted indians as compensation for souls lost to. Indians fully rational but in need of tutelage by. Christians (paternalistic: to him, the only valid aim of spanish colonialism was the conversion of indians, this grant from the crown was called an encomienda, natives" obligation = labor tribute, spaniards" obligation = religious instruction (christianizing the native. Hernan cortes people: conquered the aztecs from 1519-1521, cortes first establishes a colony in veracruz and names himself the leader, cortes wants to take aztec territory, so he sets off for their capital, Smallpox: smallpox and many other diseases were brought to the americas from the. Europeans during the colombian exchange: smallpox killed a bunch of natives, who had not built up an immunity to. European diseases, giving the spanish an advantage in battle.
