15e century | 16th century | 17th siècle
Years 1550 | Years 1560 | Years 1570 | Years 1580 | Years 1590
1570 | 1571 | 1572 | 1573 | 1574 | 1575 | 1576 | 1577 | 1578 | 1579
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Events
- Dryness in the South-west of the North America during the thirty last years of the 16th century. It particularly reaches the California (1571 - 1597) and the Colorado (1573 - 1593) but is less marked in North (Oregon).
- the Peru account approximately 100 000 mongrels for 38 000 white. One prohibits the European weapons, the horses and the access to priesthood to them.
- 250 000 black slaves in the Spanish Americas. The Indian population is stabilized to 9 million for 180 000 European colonists approximately.
- Beginning of the importation in mass of Slave S Blacks with the Brazil: Sudanese of Western Africa then Bantous of equatorial Africa. They adapt better than the Indians to the sedentary work of agriculture. However, the average lifespan of the slaves in the plantations sugar does not exceed seven years. They live in small rudimentary huts, the senzalas , built behind the put large of the Master. Sometimes, they revolt, forming quilombos or republic of “maroon” negros in the interior (that of Palmares, for example, at the 17th century). From 3,5 to 3,6 million slaves would have been imported in Brazil between 1500 and 1850.
Significant characters
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Simple: 1570s
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