🌀 Big Spiral History 🟣 Space 11

Space 11: The Early Modern I

Columbus, the Reformation, and Potosí

1500 – 1549

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Space 11: The Early Modern I

🟣 Columbus, the Reformation, and Potosí · 1500 – 1549

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🟣 Dot 1 · 1500s

1500 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain in chains.

📍 Address: Space 11 · Dot 1 (1500)

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🟣 Dot 2 · 1510s

1517 Martin Luther challenges the sale of indulgences, kicking off a chain of events that will shatter the unity of Christendom.

📍 Address: Space 11 · Dot 2 (1517)

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1514 Bartolomé de las Casas turns from exploiting the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to defending them.

📍 Address: Space 11 · Dot 2 (1514)

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🟣 Dot 3 · 1520s

1519 The Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II (mock-teh-SOO-mah) welcomes the Spanish adventurer Hernán Cortés into his dazzling lake-city of Tenochtitlan (tuh-noch-TEET-lahn); Cortés seizes him and begins to rule his empire.

📍 Address: Space 11 · Dot 3 (1519)

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🟣 Dot 4 · 1530s

1532 Atahualpa (ah-tah-WAHL-pah) wins the Inca civil war against his brother, only to lose the now-weakened empire to a tiny band of strangers from Spain.

📍 Address: Space 11 · Dot 4 (1532)

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🟣 Dot 5 · 1540s

1541 John Calvin is invited back to Geneva to build an austere Protestant city where drinking, dancing, or skipping a church service can bring someone before a morals court — a model that will reshape Christianity far beyond its walls.

📍 Address: Space 11 · Dot 5 (1541)

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1545 A rich vein of silver, discovered in Potosí, Peru, begins to connect the world as a single economy, fueled by the suffering of enslaved workers.

📍 Address: Space 11 · Dot 5 (1545)

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