Peoples and Empires

Ashley MajanoHistory 140Dr. Arguello

August 7, 2011

Universal Empire Charles’s empire was a vast

sprawling cosmopolitan conglomerate.

Under the ages of emperor, all his subjects supposedly enjoyed the same status no matter their race.

The Holy Roman Empire were princes who used their stations to maintain uneasy peace between the various political groups.

Charles’s claims to universalism and his cosmopolitanism were matched only by those of the rulers of the other great Roman worlds.

Conquering the Ocean

In the early 15th century the vision of the world began to change.

In the first encounter between a European colonizing power and an African people, the European were soundly defeated.

The early Portuguese voyages to Africa were sponsored by prince Henry, “Henry the Navigator”

Henry died in 1460, but his voyages changed the nature of the European imperial ambitions and European society for good.

Spreading the World Under its Christian rulers, Rome would

become the place where the universalizing message of Christ would find its ultimate political expression.

Christianity was truly a universal creed.

Christian world ordered would endure as long as “This Earthly World”

Las Casas wrote and did a great deal, he was made bishop in 1543.

Las Casas’s objectives were intellectual rather than political.

He became the symbol of the fight against the injustices of colonialism.