Category: Indigenous People
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The Encomienda
A New System for the New World The Encomienda system was established during the second voyage of Columbus to help facilitate mining and other needs. The term comes from the spanish word for “to entrust” and was essentially slavery with extra steps. Although they would never call it slavery because again the queen did not…
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The First Voyage of Christopher Columbus
The Man from Genoa The first big thing I learned about Columbus that I was never taught in school is that he is not Spanish. He is technically Genoese, which is now part of Italy. While that isn’t particularly important to the overall story, I thought it was interesting. During the Age of Exploration, when…
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Indigenous People of the Americas
Who really discovered America? In school we hear a lot about Christopher Columbus and how he made an incredible discovery when he sailed west and found what is now America. There is a decent amount wrong with that idea we’re all taught, but the main thing for this post is that you cannot discover a…
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