Note 2: Introduction and Chapter 1

Born in Blood and Fire

Introduction to Born in Blood and Fire

Pages 14-24

Shared/Differing Characteristics

Question: can a unified history of Latin American be written???

A Shared History? What is it?

A Shared History of STRUGGLE

Modern Struggle

US Perspective on Latin America

Dependency Theory

Vocabulary to Know

Chapter 1: EncounterPages 24-52

Should we judge the moral quality of European explorers?

Patterns of Indigenous Life

Origins of the Crusading Mentality

Colonialism

Discovery

Religion

Resources

Two Parallel Encounters

Slavery from Africa to the Americas

The Conquest: How did a few hundred Spanish defeat vast empires of the Aztecs and Incas?

Same encounter, different results

After the Conquests…

Countercurrents—dispute of the Black Legend

Vocabulary to Know