Colonial Latin America

Catalog description

HIST 3355 : From the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century, the Americas went through vast transformations. Not only had a new group of people arrived: they also stayed. Some came as conquistadors, some as enslaved Africans. The mixing of politics, cultures, and economic systems produced the first global empires and the first globalization. This class takes on the task of learning about Colonial Latin America through four themes: 1) the early conquest; 2) Afro-Latin America; 3) gender; and 4) independence. Keywords: Conquest; Colonization; Catholic Church; Casta System