Title: HIST 110 B midterm #1 Flashcards | Quizlet
Headings: HIST 110 B midterm #1
HIST 110 B midterm #1
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Content: Remember that the Spanish told stories of the encounter (i.e. narrated them) in such a way as to emphasize European (and Catholic) dominance over the people of the New World. My argument that day was that the term Conquest elides many aspects of the encounter between the Spanish and the Aztecs. transculturation--
is a term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1947 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures. → Significance: merges these concepts & additionally carries idea of the resulting in creation of new cultural experience/phenomena. -->referred to devastating impact of Spanish colonialism on Cuba's indigenous peoples as a "failed transculturation"-- can often be result of colonial conquest & subjugation (in a postcolonial era) as native peoples struggle to regain their own sense of identity
Cuitlahuac--
was 10th emperor of Aztec Empire. -->Significance: he played important role in governing & administering the tribute & alliance system of Aztec Empire
--Cortés then freed him & once he was free he led his people against the conquistadors. He succeeded & the Spaniards were driven out of Tenochtitlan
smallpox
a virus carried by europeans that killed
→ Significance : -played a debt toll to
-partially inspired slave trade
- why europeans were able to dominate over the Americas
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