zondag 7 april 2013

The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards: Crash Course US History

In episode 1, John talks about the Native Americans who lived in what is now the US prior to European contact. This is a history class, not archaeology, so we're mainly going to cover written history. That means we start with the first sustained European settlement in North America, and that means the Spanish. The Spanish have a long history with the natives of the Americas, and not all of it was positive. The Spanish were definitely not peaceful colonizers, but what colonizers are peaceful? Colonization pretty much always results in an antagonistic relationship with the locals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E9WU9TGrec&feature=share&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

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