Zusammenfassung der Ressource
UNIT 4 WORLD CIV
- Aztecs/Mexica
- Aztec invaders
- "God, Glory, and Gold"
- conquistadors took Moctezuma
hostage and destroyed shrines,
the Spanish got kicked out but
got back in the city
- Hernán Cortés
- mistaken as Quetzalcoatl by Moctezuma
- was it really that peaceful?
- raised tribute and wasn't good to them
- disease!!!
- brought by the invaders
and severely weakened
and killed masses
- society
- encomienda: natives could be
forced to work on lands
- Bartolomé de las Casas had it abolished
- peninsulares
- mestizos
- creoles
- mulattoes
- la indígena/la negra
- spoke Nahuatl
- small ruling elite claim
they are divinely chosen
- expansionist!!
- gods & religion
- relied on legends
- based a lot off astrology
- Polytheistic
- sacrificed humans to these gods
- Violence was sacred!!
- Tenochtitlán
- Incas
- Inca invaders
- Francisco Pizarro from Spain
- gods & religion
- Machu Picchu was sacred mountaintop
- Cult of Royal Mummies
- Split inheritance: kings that
die still possess the land they
gained forever, but his court
collects taxes to maintain his
mummy and lands
- religious ideology pressured expansion
- Atauhualpa and Huascar
- both sons of Huayna Capac, one
would inherit the empire. It had to
be the child the king had with his
full sister, which was Huascar. He
was good until he said that the
royal mummies shouldn't have so
much land, and the high nobles
didn't like that so he got the boot
and Atauhualpa was crowned
- society
- spoke Quechua
- mitima: strategic relocation of
newly conquered peoples
closer to the central gov.
- allyu: specific groups that own lands
- mita: rotating system of assigning labors to members
- Cuzco
- geography
- valleys, mountains, very little arable land, cold
- African coast
- wealthy trading colonies,
long time international
trade marketers
- hierarchical and decentralized
- Muslim, Arabic or KiSwahili speaking
- Kingdom of Kongo
- lush, fertile, coastal land
- king and a strong noble class
- King Joao and Alfonso
- Alfonso is 1st Portuguese-African king
- baptized into Christian and Portuguese
life and still keeps strong ties
- spoke out to portuguese king about how
slavery was damaging his countries
more than it was making profit
- slave trade
- Middle Passage: awful 1-3 month
journey of slaves from Africa to the
Americas in which many were killed
- Olaudah Equiano
- most slave traders were
native africans selling off
their own people
- beneficial for them because
they traded in exchange for
foreign goods like firearms
- bad for Africa because
so many areas then
became depopulated