Black Legend Debate Brief Against Las Casas In the 16th century Spain had discovered the new world and its indigenous peoples along with it. With Spain’s main purpose in going to the “New World” being to seek out any profitable resources and opportunities, it led to the enslavement of the Native Americans. Forced to do labor and work the mines, many of the Native Americans that lived in the Americas died from this. There came backlash towards Spain from finding the New World and acquiring these new resources that made them very rich and profitable at the time. Other countries in Europe depicted the Spanish empire as being cruel, exploitative, and self-righteous for enslaving and killing the innocent Native Americans.
The Spanish were able to mine the silver with some economic benefit quickly turning into negative inflation, and the British were able to buy from the Spanish and Japanese and sell to the Chinese as middlemen. These were three regions of the world that participated in the silver trade. The Chinese economy suffered because while the Europeans sold silver to help pay for other commodities, the Asian countries bought silver effectively ruining their economy in many ways. The impact of silver imports was huge in China during the Ming dynasty. Most people thought that buying silver was the best economic choice, but because as silver was bought in such high amounts from Europeans the economy suffered in the fact that the abundance of silver deflated reducing value from what it was bought at and was hardly used as a form of economic currency considering the amount of silver that had been obtained.
Tobacco was the number one the cash crop of in Virginia. Once it was clear the tobacco was highly profitable in Jamestown, it was also clear that labor supply was insufficient. They were killing off their potential labor force with their diseases, such as small pox. The Indians’ immune systems were not able to fight off the diseases brought by the Europeans. This became a big problem.
The war for independence was fought to end colonial rule. The war was based on politics and a separation of powers. In this essay I will start from the rising annoyance amongst the indigenous population and how the higher ranking classes exploited their failures for their own societal class gain in a system where they have always been favored more by societal leaders. Once New Spain established its new territory, inner cores were created as part of the system. New Spain would be under direction of the mother country Spain.
This profit margin made the risk worth taking for many, resulting in the government losing money due to be not paying duty tax. Pitt saw this problem and decided to reduce the level of duty tax of these products, in the Commutation Act of 1784. In addition, he also amended the Hovering Act of 1780, meaning that officials could now search ships, therefore making smuggling a lot more difficult. Furthermore, to encourage legitimate trade, Pitt introduced ‘Bonded Warehouses’ which allowed legitimate traders to store their goods in these warehouses tax-free as long as they were planning to export these to another country. Although the problem of smuggling had to be overcome, exportation in Britain was booming.
I also will tell of the country’s different relationships with the Natives. First I am going start with the colonization style of Spain. Spain focused mostly on colonizing the northern part of South America and southern America. Such areas as Mexico, Peru, and Florida were of the popular places were Spanish ships landed. The Natives who already lived there were forced to be slaves and mine gold for the Spanish people who settled there.
The encomienda system is deeply entrenched in the history and culture of South and Central America, and is one of the most damaging institutions that the Spanish colonists implemented in the New World. The system came to signify the oppression and exploitation of Native Americans, the originators did not set out with such intent. The Spanish colony was reestablished and survived in New Mexico but not on Spanish terms. The Utes and Comanches tribes raided many Spanish villages to feed the raid
The Spainards legitimized their rule by enforcing the church and its values tO the inferior population by converting them in effort to cease and integrate them to Spanish life. Describe the social hierarchy of the American colonies. Through sexual exploitation, many Indians were forced into a complicated social system. At the top of the hierarchy were the European whites, or peninsulares, then the mestizo mix of a European and Indian. What was the nature of the eighteenth-century reforms in Portuguese and Spanish colonies?
This essay will attempt to prove that the Spanish had a negative influence on the Aztec people. The Spanish made the Aztecs lose control of their social structure, they lost control of their resources and the Aztecs were exposed to deadly European diseases. Firstly, the arrival of the Spanish made the Aztecs lose control of their social structure. The social structure of the Aztecs before the Spanish invaded was very sophisticated. People were classified into four major classes, nobles (pipiltin), commoners (macehualtin), serfs, and slaves.
Both societies viewed merchants differently, too. The Aztecs believed merchants should be higher in class because they made Tenochtitlan a wealthier city. However, Incas were not economically wealthy. They believed that fine goods should be reserved for rulers and aristocrats. It is surprising that the Aztecs ruled a less amount of time than the Incas because the Aztecs were the ones with the wealth and influence.