HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antonio Gramsci, Puffy Amiyumi, Topa Inca Yupanqui
21 Aug 2018
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The spanish imposed their desires and demands onto the indigenous people. Made them convert to christianity -- sought to eradicate indigenous religious beliefs through anti-idolatry trials. Spanish crown wanted them to relocate to reducciones - spanish colonial towns where they were monitored. Spanish needed labor more than land to fuel their empire - potosi and the silver. Mines in bolivia became the single largest source of silver in the world in the. M"ita - labor rotation in the mines in potosi (14,000 men each year forced to go to bolivia to work in the mines) Traveled with their families and migrated to potosi. Often not paid wage and no record of mortality rate. M"ita in a colonial obraje (textile mill) Colonial rule was a material transformation of the indigenous lifestyle. All the same for native lord or indigenous nobility. Using local andean leader as intermediaries between the empire and local andean indigenous commoners as it had been under the incas.
