Zinn Chapter 1
A. The Commercial Revolution was a period of economic expansion, colonization and mercantilism in Europe. The Commercial Revolution made exploration and colonization a reality because as the European powers found new trade routes for goods and built vast trading networks, they established colonies in these areas where they would trade.
B. Exploration encouraged more trading and economic development for participating nations. The Triangular Trade was established which exchanged goods, such as sugar, tobacco, timber, and gold, and slaves between Africa, the Americas and Europe
C. Columbus was under pressure to find gold and spices that he had promised to the king and queen of Spain. When he found out there was gold in Haiti he ordered the men to each bring a certain amount of gold to him because he needed to pay his dividends back to Spain.
D. “The other” we depicted as less than human, which is why the Europeans treated them poorly. This was because “the other” had no religion and a weak economic and social system. This is true about European treatment of Native Americans and Africans.
E. Spain was able to create a dominant colonial system by sending conquistadors to the Americas with advanced military technology. They also brought disease over to the Americas that killed many Indians.
F. The native tribes were treated badly by the Spanish as the Spanish enslaved them and exploited them to find gold and silver. Their justification for this behavior is that the conquistadors were ordered to come back with gold and silver so they had to return with something to please the king and queen.
G. “History” that has been buried concerning cultural contact is the side of the story from the victims.
H. These atrocities are absent in many texts because historians try to preserve morality and not let out all the immoral things that happened in America’s history. Zinn compares it to radioactive wastes being buried in containers.
I. Zinn means that historians
B. Exploration encouraged more trading and economic development for participating nations. The Triangular Trade was established which exchanged goods, such as sugar, tobacco, timber, and gold, and slaves between Africa, the Americas and Europe
C. Columbus was under pressure to find gold and spices that he had promised to the king and queen of Spain. When he found out there was gold in Haiti he ordered the men to each bring a certain amount of gold to him because he needed to pay his dividends back to Spain.
D. “The other” we depicted as less than human, which is why the Europeans treated them poorly. This was because “the other” had no religion and a weak economic and social system. This is true about European treatment of Native Americans and Africans.
E. Spain was able to create a dominant colonial system by sending conquistadors to the Americas with advanced military technology. They also brought disease over to the Americas that killed many Indians.
F. The native tribes were treated badly by the Spanish as the Spanish enslaved them and exploited them to find gold and silver. Their justification for this behavior is that the conquistadors were ordered to come back with gold and silver so they had to return with something to please the king and queen.
G. “History” that has been buried concerning cultural contact is the side of the story from the victims.
H. These atrocities are absent in many texts because historians try to preserve morality and not let out all the immoral things that happened in America’s history. Zinn compares it to radioactive wastes being buried in containers.
I. Zinn means that historians