Stupid History Midterm I
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- West to the Orient
- 1492 Columbus sail orient to find silk/spices, not east long/expensive/controlled by muslims, disprove flat earth myth
- To Please God
- Convert Indians to Christians, civilize them, use land as God intended
- Conquest to Assimilation
- Aztecs/Incas had gold/gems, Conquest (Convert or die), Assimilate (change their culture to match yours)
- The Pueblo Revolt (1680)
- Pueblo Indians angry at Spanish, who were supposed to protect them but made them give up their religion, Pope planned revolt, forced Pueblo to abandon anything Catholic-related
- Religion on the Middle Ground
- Middle ground (culture join native americans/europeans, ?
- The First Thanksgiving
- View Indians as test of God, Mary Rowlandson, Christian Indians worse, elimination (king philip's war) dependence/separation/elimination
- Jamestown's First Labor Force
- Indentured servants, paid to come to new world to do work in new land, 4-7 yr contract, 1/4 cost of slaves
- Living Longer in Jamestown
- indentured servants live longer, given land, slavery now more cost effective
- Sex and the Middle Ground
- Men work outside/women inside home, French no pre-marital sex/indians sex, no/divorce
- The First Color Line
- Divide white/black (work, no interracial marriage)
- Puritan Dilemma
- "City on Hill" failed, presence of indians
- Democracy in Colonial America
- White land owning folk had power in America not had in Europe, voting rights from land owning, 2/3 men owned land
- Search for Myths
- Few people thought earth was flat, Marco Polo & Bible made sea travelers think they'd encounter wild things
- Search for Dumping Ground
- Europe was overpopulated, too many rich and poor
- The Mission System
- Spanish promised indians? protection and technology (steel, plows) in they convert/become civilized/pay tribute (crops,goods,labor)
- Why a Middle Ground?
- New culture between Algonquians and French, neither side dominated
- Murder on the Middle Ground
- European: Individual responsibility, capital punishment. Indians: Clan responsibility (revenge killing, gift giving, adoption)
- Pocahontas and John Smith
- English wanted eliminate Indians, father saved Jamestown, thought they'd make for good allies English angry (thought they were superior) try eliminate indians, father saved Jamestown, thought good allies, made English made, Disney-fake
- Why the Indians Lost
- Disease (small pox, measles, bubonic plague, mumps), Inter-tribal war, Technology (Horses, limits on guns) -- TECH. MOST IMPORTANT
- Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
- Uprising of farmers and slaves, angry over politics (land, taxes), conflict with indian protection
- Puritan Experiment
- Puritans came to New World because of religious persecution, Church of England beyond hope, God's wrath on Europe, Fear of falling into sin, moral guilt
- Colonial Patriarchy
- Married men rule like kings, lots of kids sign of manhood, set-up for children of bad father