Chapter 13
Colonial empires in the Americas
-Spanish focused their empire building efforts in the Caribbean and then, in the early sixteenth century, turned to the main land with powerful Aztec and Inca empires.
-Countries on the rim of Europe were closer to the Americas than any Asian competitor.
-Europeans innovated map making, navigation, and ship design.
-pre Columbian population of the western hemisphere was estimated to be between 60-80 million.
-When native American people came into contact with European and African diseases they died in appalling numbers and ended up losing roughly 90 percent of their population.
Comparing colonial societies in the Americas
-What Europeans encountered across the Atlantic was considered an "old world"
-Europeans did not simply conquer and govern societies but created whole new ones
-The land offered more than what the Europeans were expecting.
-Contrast between a semi feudal Spain catholic Spain and a more changing protestant England
-economy was only established in a particular region and farming and slavery likely influenced their development.
-Women and children experienced intrusion worst. beyond disease, violent conquest, women had to deal with the transfer of a new ruler, and sexual abuse
-Soon after conquest Spanish men married elite native women as a way of cementing their new relationship.
Russian empirical expansion in Siberia
-At the same time as western Europe was building their empires in the Americas the Russian empire became the worlds largest state and was beginning to take shape.
-City of Moscow was emerging from two centuries of mongol rule.
-Russian empire took shape in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800
-Spanish focused their empire building efforts in the Caribbean and then, in the early sixteenth century, turned to the main land with powerful Aztec and Inca empires.
-Countries on the rim of Europe were closer to the Americas than any Asian competitor.
-Europeans innovated map making, navigation, and ship design.
-pre Columbian population of the western hemisphere was estimated to be between 60-80 million.
-When native American people came into contact with European and African diseases they died in appalling numbers and ended up losing roughly 90 percent of their population.
Comparing colonial societies in the Americas
-What Europeans encountered across the Atlantic was considered an "old world"
-Europeans did not simply conquer and govern societies but created whole new ones
-The land offered more than what the Europeans were expecting.
-Contrast between a semi feudal Spain catholic Spain and a more changing protestant England
-economy was only established in a particular region and farming and slavery likely influenced their development.
-Women and children experienced intrusion worst. beyond disease, violent conquest, women had to deal with the transfer of a new ruler, and sexual abuse
-Soon after conquest Spanish men married elite native women as a way of cementing their new relationship.
Russian empirical expansion in Siberia
-At the same time as western Europe was building their empires in the Americas the Russian empire became the worlds largest state and was beginning to take shape.
-City of Moscow was emerging from two centuries of mongol rule.
-Russian empire took shape in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800
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