What is the interrelationship between social inequity (inequality), violence, and economic

development?
Reading
High Spirits, High Seas
Standage
pg93111

Answer Question

Notes on POV, etc.

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- Cordoba =
the jewel of
the world
- Intellectual
development
was a result of
info gathered
from greek,
roman, Islamic
etc
- sugar
production
relied on
african slaves
bc they had
immunity to
the diseases
that floated
around

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- Concept/
practice of
distillation =
advancement
- Distillation
allowed
durable
transport of
alcohol
- Resulted in
medicines
(aqua vitae)
- Christians
forbidden to
capture
another hard
for slavery at
the beginning
blacks not
seen as human
therefore not
Christian
( slaves were
not allowed to
convert)
- Alcohol
(brandy)
presented as
gifts

Questions

As Rich as Potosi
WTTC
pg151154

Empires, States, and the

New World Marks
pg 74-84

-Locals tried to
pay bribe to
avoid the
draft/ manual
labor
- High prices
(magnet to
merchants)
- Coca became
democratized
as
it became
- Cortez
and
more
common
Pizarro
along
theto get
wanted
lower
class
to
rich (Pizarro
quench
mass killed
hunger
and
Incas) so
that
energize
they could
oneself.
use their
- wealth
Silver fueled
to be
the
trade
successful in
their home
land.
- Columbian
exchange:
new world
suffered
(small pox)
while Eurasia
thrived
(potato
china helps
peasants)
- conquest
itself : war
among
natives,
oppression by
conquerers,
forced
requisition of
Indian labor,
native
population
down = The
Great Dying
- Equity:
Indians
proved to
have a soul
- Wanted to

- Spanish
exploited
Incas to get
silver
- Spanish had
advanced
technology
- Labor was
short draft
-Spaniards
to
pick men
were
ableato
- Became
take down
trade
hub
the
*
of
w/in SA
they
-Aztec
Silverbc
gave
had
+
out and
advanced
turned
Potosi
warfare
and
into a ghost
brought small
city
pox.
- Aztecs
conquered
people did
not like them

helped
Spaniards
take gold etc
- Incas
resisted
Spanish
conquerizatio
n

Wha
t
part
of
Euro
pean
cultu
re
mad
e
the
m
not
want
to
do
man
ual

The Economics of
Violence WTTC
pg 141- 149
The Logic of Immoral
Trade WTTC
pg 149-151

- Commerce
is a civilizing
passion that
obviates
(lessens) the
need for
violence
(141)
- Peace
lowers cost of
having to
-Amerindians
protect an
dies quickly
area and
from the
facilitate
diseases
exchange.
brought over
- But violence
and the
if necessary
Spanish didnt
too?
want to do
- Europe and
manual labor,
Africa
so they
connected
brought over
through sub
the Africans to
Saharan gold/
create the
slave trade
complex and
- American
strong society
Indians could
that they
not work on
wanted
sugar
made a sense
plantation bc
of social
almost
hierarchy
immediately
(because of
died off bc of
active trade
disease
between the
- ^ Needed
two continents,
African slaves
Africans had
- Color bcame
immunity to
a key part in
the diseases)
inequality
- Money for
- Too
expensive to
use white
people- much
cheaper to
use black
slaves
- Violence
accompanied
long distance
trade more
than local
(but local was
too
competitive)

Specialization
increases
surplus and
-reduces
Before costs
- In Europe/
1800,
were
Africa
slaves slavery
from
was less
Africa
-inhumane
Most died
than
on
thethe
Americas:
journey
abroad-once
Disease
slaves
were
and greed
treated an
like
created
chattel
African
- Spanish
diaspora
plundered the
(151)
Aztec and
Inca Empires
to get
gold/silver
- silver
caused
inflation
- pirates
coerced trade
at gunpoint

Why
did
Europ
eans
take
Africa
ns all
the
way
from
across
the
Atlanti
c to
use in
the
Ameri
casrather
than
simply
engag
e
them
in
Africa
itself?
(149)
- Why
didnt
Europ
eans
coloni
ze in

Readings on Slavery
Reilly
Pg 609- 623

- Slave trade
lessens African
population and
slows economic
growth
- To avoid
entering the slave
trade, parents
here sell their
children, men
their wives
causing violence,
lying, and greed

A Vision from the

Vanquished website
pg 424-425

- Spaniards
dont fear
justice, bc they
have absolute
power
- Spaniards
waste money
without work
or sweat
- No pity or
concern for the
Indians
- Laws always
favor the
employer

- Europeans
conquered Africa
(1800s) much
later than of the
Americas
- King of Congo
begs King of
Portugal to stop
capturing his
natives into the
slave trade
- women are
cheaper than
men (patriarchy)
- explains how
he was captured
and thrown into
the slave trade
- Travelled a lot
- Varying
locations
resulted
in by
- Written
varying
Guaman Poma
treatment
a Christian
who hoped
that his report
would reach
the king of
Spain
- History is
usually written
by the victors
- Indians
treated awfully
(beaten,
starved, barely

Commerce in People:
The Atlantic Slave
pg 449-457
Trade Strayer

- Slave trade
corrupted
society
as the elites
were enriched
and the slaves
victimized
- Little hope of
freedom for the
vast majority of
slaves
- Looking for
gold, Portuguese
also found an
alternative
source of slaves
- Entire process
in European
hands bc they
hand superior
weapons
- slave trade
slowed Africas
population
growth and as a
result its
economic

- Before 1500,
Med and IOT
basins were
central arenas
fro slave trade
- King Afonso
(African
convert to
Christianity)
begged to halt
the slave
trade, saying
that I disrupted
their society as
it took their
natives away
- a normal
commercial
transaction
- Slave trade
varied in style
(ex. NAhereditary, SAfreed new
slaves brought
in)