Dutch and English vs. Spanish Colonization
Jasmyne Hall
The Spanish
- The Conquistadors did not welcome the arrival of bureaucrats
- Established two centers of authority in the Americas. (Mexico-called new Spain; Peru-Known as New Castile.)
- Each centers governed by a Viceroy.
- Viceroy-Responsible to the king of Spain
- Built new capital called Mexico City on top of Tenochtitlan
- Peru originally hoped to rule from the Inca capital of Cuzco But considered high the altitude
- In 1535 they founded Lima and transferred the government to the coast where it was accessible to Spanish shipping
- Spanish rule in the Americas les to the rapid establishment of cities throughout the vice royalties.
- Like Spain colonist preferred to love in cities even when they derived their income from the agricultural production of their landed estates
- Iberian explorations had royal backing, private investigators played larger roles in French and English colonial efforts.
- Individuals put up money to finance expeditions to America
- English colonies were always subject to royal authority
- Example (they also maintained their own assemblies and influenced the choice of royal governors)
- French and English migrants did not find large, centralized states like the Aztec and Inca empires.
- Did not encounter agricultural peoples living in densely settled colonies
- The people of eastern North America had formed dozens of district society
- Many of the. practices agriculture, but most relied on hunting
- They did not claim ownership of precisely bounded territories
- Upwards of 150,000 English migrants moved to North America during the 16th century alone
- Sizable French, German, Dutch, and Irish contingents joined them in the search of land