The Human Web: Class Notes

Between 1492-1776, although many people moved to the “New World”, North America lost population due to the amount of Indians dying from war and diseases and the inability of colonists to replace them. John Murrin states, “losers far outnumbered winners” in “ a tragedy of such huge proportions that no one’s imagination can easily encompass it all.” This thought of a decreasing population broadens one’s perspective of history from that of an excluded American tale full of positivity to that of a more unbiased, all-encompassing analysis. The Indians and slaves have recently been noted as a more crucial part of history than previously accredited with.

The author’s study of the Internet’s genesis makes systematic links between the technological development and its organizational, social, and cultural environment. There are many available histories on the Internet, in print and online. Most are well-documented information on technology and its history. Some mention the fundamental concepts of communication, information, and knowledge. Abbate's work, however, goes beyond ordinary facts and her findings are most revealing.

During the European age of expansion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, various European nations were colonizing the newly discovered Americas. Spain and France would become prominent players in the Western Hemisphere, both conquering and colonizing new territories. However, each country had different methods of developing their colonies in the New World. Spanish and French settlements contrasted greatly with one another in terms of economic development and Native American relations.

Europeans were in a much closer proximity to the Americas than they were to asian countries. European societal groups, which included the competing merchants, impoverished nobles, monarchs, and commoners, Christian missionaries, and minorities different yet very strong motivations for having participation in empire building. European trading companies enabled the mobilization of both material resources like wood and crops as well as humans. The Disease in the Americas that had been brought by spanish conquerors made the natives weak and unable to stop the European invasion

European nations vigorously began to take over the newly discovered Americas throughout most of the 16th century leading into the 17th century. England was very forceful in pushing out multiple groups of people to the eastern coast of what is now known as North America. At that time there were only two prominent regions in North America, they were known then as the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. These two colonies would eventually band together to stand as one nation, but that was toward the end of the 17th century. The beginning tells a completely different story, both colonies had very different beliefs on what the exact reason may have been for the settlers to come to the New World. They lived very different lives because of this. A lot of these differences affected them politically in who they followed, socially in who they spoke with, and economically in who they would do business with.

Gold & Silver: Gold and silver was the main reason of oversees exploitation and conquests for the money it provided for the Spanish empire. Brutal and violent acts were done to possess the metals. France, England, and Dutch also got the goods by stealing from Spain.

The British Empire dramatically changed when Christopher Columbus located America. Countries were rushing to get a piece of the shiny new land they could conquer. No country wanted to be left behind on the road to colonization, the more they owned the more powerful they were. The French came and colonized central and northern America. The Dutch collected patchy parts of northern America and Spain got southern America (Keene et al, section 2).

silver. The discovery of silver in Mexico and Peru increased the wealth of Spain. Silver mining became

the european monarchs were greedy to occupy the western lands of north america. French and Spanish monarchs sent military.

The Old societies were destroyed and new societies were built in the native Americas. The Europeans were different in governing these colonies in the Americas. The British and Spanish colonies had many differences in governing their colonies. C. Thesis Statement: The main difference between the Spanish

It is easy to tell from this writing that without silver, trade would be non-existent to the Spanish, thus making the Spaniard dependent on silver. Document 8 is also similar in where it say Europe “sends Asia gold and silver” in exchange for “materials to supply luxury” showing again that the trade economies of Europe are dependent on the possession of precious metal, specifically silver. Charles D’ Avenat, an English

The Spanish used Mexico and Peru, the Aztec and Incan territories respectively, to extract the vast deposits of gold and silver in those regions and forced the natives to produce export goods and to work in sugar mills and mines, even though they were not technically slaves to the Spanish. The textbook mentions that Bolivia itself produced around “forty-five thousand tons of silver in the next two centuries [17th and 18th century]” (Henkin and McLennan, Convergence and Contact 2016). These examples further indicate the Spanish’s true ambitions in the Americas, even three decades after

The Spanish power caused the wealthy empires of the Aztec and Inca to fall prey to the wealth extraction objectives. With Spain harvesting massive quantities of goods including

Everything in the Americas was of great value to the Spanish but the most important and valuable was gold ,so huge amounts of gold were sent regularly to Spain. There is something that shows us how important the American gold was to the Spanish empire, this was the decision of Christopher Columbus to kill any Indian who didn't pay an amount of gold when reached the age of fourteen and those who lived in the areas that didn't have plenty of gold would be obliged to give an amount of cotton instead

In fact the spaniards were more dominant with south america the the english were with the united states only because they had gold. The spaniards thought they had it good with their land at first till they heard