mapping european conquest of the americas. the geo-political world today about 200 nations with...
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Mapping European Conquest
of the Americas
The Geo-Political World Today
About 200 Nations with About 7 Billion People
Larger Civilizations in 1500
Ancient “Silk Road”
Age of Exploration1400s-1600s
• A desire for a sea route to Asia to make more profit from trading
• A surge in intellectual curiosity• Improvements in cartography• Improvements in navigational tools • Improvements in ships and sails
Larger Civilizations in 1500
Cortez1519
Larger Civilizations in 1500
South American Native CulturesPrior to European Conquest
North American Native CulturesPrior to European Conquest
Temple at Tenochtitlan
Cultural Sophistication
Aztec Calendar
Aztec Writing
Europeans Arrive in the Americas1492
European
Conquest
of the Americas around
1776
How did Europeans Think About “La Conquista” Mural
Conquest? By Diego Rivera
Let’s analyze some historical primary source documents
• Bull Romanus Pontifex (1455)
• Bull Inter Caetera (1493)
• Requerimiento (1513)
The Doctrin
eof
Discovery
Modern Application at UN (2012)
US Supreme Court 1825
Johnson v. M'Intosh“On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe ... as they were all in pursuit of nearly the same object, it was necessary, in order to avoid conflicting settlements, and consequent war with each other, to establish a principle which all should acknowledge as the law by which the right of acquisition, which they all asserted, should be regulated as between themselves. This principle was that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession. ... The history of America, from its discovery to the present day, proves, we think, the universal recognition of these principles.”
Justice John Marshall
US Supreme Court 2005
City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York
“Under the ‘doctrine of discovery…’fee title [ownership] to the lands occupied by Indians when the colonists arrived became vested in the sovereign—first the discovering European nation and later the original states and the United States.”
Bull Inter CaeteraPope, Spain, and Portugal Divide Latin
America
