History of Colonial Latin America

These are the GoogleEarth tutorials I did for another class. They tell you how to do a lot more than I’m requiring for this Independence project. But after watching them all you should have the information you need to do a series of placemarks.
This is Tutorial #1

Tutorial 2

Tutorial 3

Rather than use our classroom, which is locked at 9am, I’ve reserved room 417 in the library from 9am to 10am Wed. 10-21 and Fri. 10-23. I also put the DVD on reserve at the library too.

When you go on Wednesday morning, tell them you’re from Dr. Garrigus’s class and that you need to take over the reservation in your name. They just need your UTA ID  in order to give you the room key. Then ask them for the DVD which should be at the reserve desk. You can come back at any time and watch the DVD there on your own.

Please email me if you have any questions!

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Here are three of the screen-cast tutorials I made for GoogleEarth for a previous class. I post them here in case you’re considering GoogleEarth for either the technology project or the independence project and wanted to get some ideas about what the program can do. If you’re interested, I’d suggest using it for both projects so you can take advantage of your increased knowledge of the software for the second assignment.

Here’s the tutorial I’d like you to watch in class. The rest of the material will be on WebCT, however.

Here’s a brief (5 minute) National Geographic video about Orellana and the idea of lost Amazonian cities.

This is the video we’ll see and partially discuss in class. It’s from the 2nd section of a 3-part National Geographic series called Guns Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond. The parts we’ll be watching will be around 9 minutes to about 15 minutes;  about 17 minutes to 22 minutes [weapons], 42 minutes to 50 minutes about infectious disease.

Still, I recommend you watch the entire thing. The recreation of Atahualpa’s encounter with Pizarro is beautifully shot.
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The Mission: Named “Best Film” at Cannes Film Festival; nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Picture”; won an Academy Award for best cinematographyDirected by Roland Joffe [English], previously directed The Killing Fields

Screenplay by Robert Bolt [English], previously wrote screen play for Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago; Starring Jeremy Irons, Robert Deniro; music by Enrico Morricone

Actor and technical advisor: Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan [USA]; anti- war [Vietnam] activist

Setting: Jesuit missions in the Rio de la Plata region [Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay] in the 1760s

32 missions by 1750; each with between 1,800 and 6,900 residents. These settlements were part of gradual Spanish expansion from mining areas. The Indian tribes in question were the Guaraní.

Questions: How do the director and screenwriter depict the Indians and Spaniards in this film? Why?

1. How did the Indians live? What do they eat? How are they dressed?
2. What did the Indians fear from the Spanish? What did the Indians want from the Spanish?
3. Who are the individual Jesuits? What is their nationality?
4. Who are the villains in the film? What is “bad” about them?
5. How do the Jesuits describe/defend the Guaraní?
6. How is life in the main missions depicted?
7. Review the ways Chasteen and Restall describe the relations between priests, native Americans, Spanish government officials, and colonists. What similarities do you see in The Mission? What differences?

Influences to consider:

I. The “Black Legend” of the “evil Spaniards”

A. Anti-Spanish attitudes were an important negative influence on national identities in England, France, Netherlands, and the USA

1. Spanish Catholic Inquisition versus and religious freedom [Protestant countries]

2. Spanish “tyranny” versus Liberal-democratic political traditions [Zorro]

3. Industrial progress versus economic stagnation

B. Example of Black Legend’s influence: Christopher Columbus & Washington Irving

1. Irving was a novelist and served as US ambassador to Spain in early 1800s

2. Created the “Flat-world” myth; “Columbus was a ‘good’ Catholic.”

C. Example of “Black Legend’s influence Herbert Bolton and “Borderlands” history

1. In the early 1900s Bolton tried to show another side of “American” history — the missions in northern New Spain – California, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona

2. Famous 1917 article, “The Mission as a Frontier Institution in the Spanish-American Colonies,” challenged Black Legend stereotypes

3. Focused attention on Spanish missions and towns and on priests as settlers, civilizers

4. A new kind of Pilgrim story for US history

II. Liberation Theology – a Catholic social and political movement in the years 1975-1990s

A. A critique of traditional Catholicism as too allied with the status quo and elites

B. Liberation Theology took an activist stance on social issues, including poverty;

C. Criticized traditional emphasis on heaven;

D. Instead — the poor are Christ, Christian communities here on earth can solve social problems

Here’s another image of Ptolemy’s map from the second century CE, during the time of the Roman Empire. If you don’t see the connection between this and Christopher Columbus — go to WebCT and review the two map lectures that I’ve just posted!