HST 1015 - Latin American History I

• Identify the geographical make-up of Latin America
• Identify several key events and major turning points in colonial Latin American and Caribbean history.
• Compare and contrast colonial processes in various regions, for example in Brazil vs. Mexico
• Identify the various cultures (Indigenous, European, African, Asian) that combined to shape the region
• Read for a dedicated purpose across different genres and forms of writing
• Identify key sources of colonial Latin American history and culture
• Recognize the way power functioned in the colonial system through Iberian logic and political organization, as well as various forms of accommodation, reform, resistance, and rebellion.
• Identify, explain, and evaluate different historical explanations for the origins, outcome, justification, and legacy of colonialism in Latin America
• Communicate effectively through presentations, discussion, and written work

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• Overview of Aztec, Mayan, and Incan societies
• Crusades and the Iberian “Reconquest”
• Role of the Catholic Church
• The Conquest of Mexico
• The Conquest of Peru
• Indigenous nations
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Indigenous and Black resistance movements
• Mines and plantations
• Valladolid debate: Las Casas and Sepúlveda
• Race and castes
• Seven-Year War and the Bourbon Reforms
• Tupac Amaru II
• French Revolution and Haitian Revolution
• Spanish-American independence revolutions
• Brazil’s road to independence
• Liberal Revolutions in Spain and Portugal
• Battle of Ayacucho and the end of the Spanish continental rule
• Republicanism and Nativism
• Colonial art, architecture, and literature