HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dutch Brazil, Monarchy Of The Netherlands, De Jure
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Global society in the 17th and 18th centuries. European society has essentially been replicated established in the new. New colonies of european settlement (especially in temperate areas of the. Becomes hinterland for the goods that europe wants. Withdrawal: resources are drawn out of america for europe (food products) Deposits: export the trash/poor people of europe out and move them to the america"s to alleviate dense european population. Pure spanish-born europeans are on top of the social hierarchy. Creoles, a mixed race of spanish-european and indigenous peoples, are second highest. These people would eventually lead the revolutionary movements in the america"s later on. Pure native americans: their population was signi cantly reduced by disease and conquest, and yet they were still the largest ethnic group in the spanish empire. Granted their own autonomous government in some parts by spanish empire, but did not work out de facto-------->only exists de jure. Central aim of governance of the spanish empire: taxation.
