peoples and empires #2
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Universal Empire• Many rulers used their status
and family power to continue to hold on to the crown.
• Charles V attempted to re-define the empire from solely German, back into a universal entity.
• His vast cosmopolitan conglomerate was far from a regular empire with a border around it.
• He controlled many countries all over the world and tried to hold them together.
• They were governed by the Imperial Public Law, but had no common legal system, no single administrative structure, or even a single language.
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Conquering The Ocean• The early view of the Earth
was very crude, inaccurate, and impressionistic.
• Prince Henry of Portugal looked to rejuvenate his poor nation by exploring Africa for direct access to gold and other precious commodities.
• These Portuguese navigators sailed into waters that many thought to be unnavigable.
• Most importantly, they returned to prove that it was possible.
• These voyages brought them in contact with land and peoples the European’s had never known existed.
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Spreading The Word• Christianity accompanied
the ever expanding European empires almost until their final demise.
• After Constantine’s conversion, Christianity became the empires most valuable ally.
• Where there were conquerors, settlers, and traders, closely behind were the missionaries.
• A man named Montesinos was one of the first to attack his own religious population for the enslavement and mistreatment of Indians.