By capturing Atahualpa at Cajamarca, the conquistadors had essentially defeated the Incas. Without its leader, the rest of the empire fell easily. Pizarro demanded a massive ransom for Atahualpa, consisting of an entire room filled with silver and gold. He then executed him, replacing him with a puppet ruler. Although several rebellion attempts occurred over the next 40 years, all were unsuccessful, and the Spanish finally colonized the region in 1572 as the Viceroyalty of Peru.…
Who were the Timucua? What did they do? Where did they live? These may be some…
Sacagawea was the daughter of a Shoshone chief. Sacagawea was born in 1788 (unknown date of birth) in Lemhi County, Idaho. At around age 12, she was captured by an enemy tribe and sold to a French-Canadian trapper who made her his wife. She and Touissiant Charbonneau had a baby boy. They named him Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and later on they had a daughter. They named her Lizette Charbonneau In November of 1804, she was invited to join the Lewis and Clark expedition as a Shoshone interpreter. Also she was skilled at finding edible plants. The expedition planned to explore newly acquired western land and to find a route to the Pacific Ocean. She was the only woman on the expedition. When a boat she was riding on capsized, she was able to save some of its cargo, including important…
Pueblo Indians are a mixture of several Native American tribes. They are descended from the Anasazi people. The best known of the mixture are Acoma, Taos, Hopi, and Zuni tribes. The Pueblo Indians settle in areas of the Southwest. In areas of the Mesa Verde Region, which is located the Four Corners. It is said that the Pueblo Indians acquired their name from the Spanish explorers that came across the tribe and used the Spanish term “pueblo” meaning “town” to describe their adobe homes and town.…
Apparently Incan rulers influenced every aspect of the Incan civilization. They were believed to be descendants of God and were been worshipped by the people. Their orders were carried on as customs and traditions by people.…
In the 1500s 80,000 Inca were defeated by only 168 Spaniards, but how? The long term effect on the Inca defeat was the Spanish technology compared to the Inca technology. The Spanish conquistadores had developed guns, they also made steel swords where the Inca had only bronze weapons, the Spanish also had developed a written language while the Inca people had never even seen a book. Spain and all the rest of Europe had developed the plow and other farming techniques such as attaching the plow to animals. This use of animals also gave the Spanish an advantage because they soon became immune to livestock born diseases which they brought upon the Inca. All of these advantages gave the Spanish the upper hand in the fight with the Incas.…
The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is signifigant to our states history. They had a happy life in Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan, until they got pushed out. Southwest Wisconsin was there new home for a little while. Oklahoma was then their last stop, along with Texas and Kansas. The nickname for the Kickapoo “Kiwigapawa” refers to them moving from place to place, because the word itself means “he moves from here to there”. Tribes across Oklahoma have had these same struggles of moving from many places because they were either kicked out, pushed out, needed a change, and etc. After the Kickapoo were forcibly removed, they have struggled to recover and come back like they used to be.…
The Inca’s new system of government allowed the Inca to control and maintain their vast empire. Their sophisticated and organized system of government was based upon the trading of items and doing labor for the nation rather than using currency. Part of the Inca government was divided into many small communities, called Ayllu, with families that were in charge of organizing labor forces, farming projects, and the distribution of land (Benson page 185). This made every community dependent on each other for necessary food and resources. The Ayllu placed people into different groups due to their skills, such as farming, carpenting, and other area of expertise (Malpass page 51).…
A popular stereotype given to Native Americans is they are all savages and hunt animals in a very animalist way. This is false when it comes to the Pima tribe, or as they call themselves Akimel O’odham meaning “river people”(“Akimel O’odham (Pima)”). The Pima tribe is known for farming and being very peaceful people. They live in the Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico area on two reservations called Gila River and Salt River. This area in which they Pima people live is also the Sonoran Desert. Even though the culture of the Pima people are slowing dying out it is one that will live forever in history (“History and Culture”). The reason they will be remembered is because of their history, housing and clothing, religion, and agriculture.…
The Inca civilization started around the XII century on Andean mountains region in South America. The Empire grew up so fast that one century later its territory extended through Peru, Ecuador and the north of Chile and its population was more than 20 million. The Inca emperor was considered the son of the sun and almost a god. He had power about all structures of civilization and was wealthy. Like every civilization of this period, the Inca had a blind faith in their gods so mythology was extremely important to them. Gods were the core of their civilization functioning, the Inca acted always according to their beliefs and their gods were present in everyday life like agriculture, war and so on. They were also,…
The Aztec Civilization was very intricate and advanced. Their economy was made up of trading various items such as tools, pottery, baskets, cloth, jewelry, and figurines. They made these and traded them in the lowlands by the Gulf Coast. In return for their items they would receive valued items like jaguar skins, tropical-bird feathers, rubber, cotton, chocolate and cacao beans. Since the Aztecs did not have animals or wheeled vehicles, they transported good using canoes. However, if they needed to go through a dangerous terrain, goods would be carried on the backs of porters in long caravans.…
Next was bishops and then priests and finally Catholics. At the top of the Aztec hierarchy was the Emperor he was their leader and was called the Huey Tlatoani he lived in the great temple. Next down was the priests they taught the Aztec religion and told the people what the gods have said. The priests were also the ones that did the sacrifices.The priests also had a life full of praying to the…
During the Pre - Columbian period in Ecuador, over one hundred different crops were grown, many continue to be the dominant crops today. Some of the foods that we currently eat including, potatoes, sweet corn, and avocado originated in Ecuador, hundreds to thousands of years ago. The topics of various crops and plants grown in Ecuador, storage and food preparation methods in the Andes, and the domestication of animals by the Incas will be explored here. Each culture within Ecuador made enormous contributions to society.…
A contact zone is defined as “social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today.”(Pratt) The definition makes it sound like a very advanced concept but in actuality it happens in everyday life. You come in contact with something new everyday, from meeting someone to accidently grabbing barbeque sauce when you always grab ketchup. Some contact zones may have a more influential role in our lives than others. In Pratt’s essay she discusses how her children learned how to write and read by buying and collecting baseball cards and how Guaman Poma an Incan man whose life drastically changed when the spanish came to South America. Pratt proves that contact zones exist and that some may have a positive or negative consequence.…
Inca education was divided into two halves: education for the upper classes and education for the general population. The upper classes were formally educated by the Amawtakuna (philosopher- scholars who were a special class of wise men). These people learned about the culture, history, customs, and traditions throughout the kingdom. The lower classes did not go to formal schools and their education was based on the knowledge passed on by their elders. The general population was responsible for building the Inca road system. Education during this time was socially discriminatory. Depending on how you grew up and what your father was, determined how you got educated. There were three classes of the social status in the Inca Empire: the emperor,…