HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Aztec Empire, Cabinet Of Curiosities
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Contact (between europe, asia, and africa vs. americas) meant disaster a. Many deadly diseases in europe (smallpox and influenza) were unknown in the americas so they were not immune. Many more diseases were brought to the new world than were taken back, very contagious and deadly. Estimates suggest 90% of the american population died from. European diseases in the first century and a half after conquest b. Spanish conquered the mexica and inca empires within fifty years. The ruling class shifted from the emperor to a group of. Spanish nobles, but daily life remained the same i. ii. iii. c. The spanish, to maximize the profit of the colony, gave conquistadors the power to organize forced labor on encomiendas. Enslavement and trans-atlantic shipment of africans i. ii. iii. Europe was heavy on people and land was scarce. Africa had a lot of land but people were scarce.
