History Notes

Topic- Us History American History 1492

Multiple ways of isolation of when people move they have exposure to eachother and the people in the Americans have a smaller group of things of ideas they are isolated 6000 year gap in agriculture that happened.

People share there different outside factors that is a cultural divide between them



  • Native Americans were alaready inhabiting America there was million of languages settled already when coolumbus went.

  • Before Columbus the Vikings had already knew about it 1600 years ago

  • Countries become nations stakes

  • Changes happening with tech logo back then was the navigation like the stars and the climate allowed for states to interact and there power, politics

  • Columbus in 1492 signifies expansion

  • Columbus was looking for a sea route for china and India

  • European powers England, France, Spain, Portugal is the leader, Dutch, and other countries

  • Asia and India is the price its more like based on trade and navy that the countries consider they go based on the strongest I believe

  • Portuguese exploration of Africa

  • Portuguese navigates teh ways best shifts and navigations begin exploration west African 1482 can gomes 1456 and Africa has exposure to Spain

  • West African American trade and Portuguese they just go to trade to make everything work out.

  • The Portuguese weren’t into slave they were interested into gold

  • African rulers gives them to Portuguese and they just take them and offer them and they get to Virginia and they are trying to produce tobacco and then that’s when it gets involved.

  • Columbus things he has a ambitious idea and he think he will reach east by sailing west.

  • If you wanted to get to china you had to go through land and it was expansive or go through Mediterranean

  • Columbus thought it was a great idea to take it to the capital of Portugal and a Portuguese had returned from good hope and said he knew the size of the earth and log story short he was wrong he interpreted wrong and unerstaimted under a 3rd

  • Spanish arre interested in competing and learning about it

  • First voyage they land in espanola and Spain folllow him

  • 3 voyage 1548 4th voyage 1592

  • If you own the land you own the rights and people who live on your land they owe you labor or money its the tribute system

  • They charge him with chargers due to allegations for corruptions because they sai he treated Indios or Indians cruel

  • He produces two books and he thinks it was a great deal

  • 1505 the book of proficiencies

  • 1506 he dies

  • Taino people were people who were eingediones to people espanolo

  • Population estimated 1000 thousand to 300thsg

  • 1514 25 thousand gone because of disease

  • Due to small pox and other diseases

  • He represented slavery and exploitation and was unquestioned hero

  • Los conquistadores They are sailing or god represented by the Catholic Church such as the queen and king

  • The treating of natives they were concerned

  • They call themselves the protectors

  • Partolome. De las casas he came with the Spanish explorers he became a Dominican fryer first resident of Chiapas he was teh first official protector of the Indians and riots. he railed against the. Maltreatment

  • They had a document like a contract they were reading it infront of everyone. And said that they were taking the land for god so they had a priest and a flag to do wtv they want the document was probably a scrawl

  • 1515 gave up American encomeinda y haciendas big land growing but they dont owe them money just labor

  • Use of African slaves to replace indigenous labor he did it be for the protuges treating them terrible

  • The Spanish people are in the Americans they want to extract wealth from land or old or any products nd they use Native American to labor and teh church lets them but its against to many abuses against native Americans in Europe there is a fascination since they didint know or hear about them

  • Theodor Debye he was did a lot of visual art and the treatment he was kind of selling like i guess shocking content for those who were going to buy since he just drew the people and there body it was visual documentation on native Americans.

  • Spanish in quasiation happens later they bring you back and put in in trial that just scares people but if your not scared they say they will take your land and take may things becaus they like wealth.

  • English didint liek teh Spanish even though they ere kinda doing the same thing

  • They thought the Spain were super cruel but the black lengend so the English later transferred to nglgish tradition international competition

  • Thee coolumbian exchange biological and cultural consequences a;Fred w Crosby jr 1492

  • Reacesing is like saying they didint get something right so they review it

  • He is the father of the environmental history he was concerned of reacessing he correctly identify the biological separate world the good and bad and the benefits Europe got tomatoes potato’s cofffe chocacalate many types of chilies

  • Crosby knew the downside of the Colombian exchnmage bezels which killed thousands of people since they didint have shots malaria and small pox in Europe and big cities they had develop generational immunity

  • When they come over they hit and burn through he people it travels and in mexico waves of small pox would spread out in front and get to the people before they even go there it jumped ahead and of them because of the traveling

  • It killed million of inegnddions people 80- 90% isn’t he centuries

  • The historians can’t be biased and they all have different stories and people have preference on the hierarchy and they one up and people can shift perceptions.

  • 1972 columbines exchange the good part and bad

  • 1990s the plain field was the place and process was changed the Atlantic world is the unification of contents manufactured good textiles furniture to the thirteen rightish colonie and those were sent back with lumber furs ride fish whole oil iron gunpowder rice tobacco.