They would oppress the Indians and after many battles‚ long treasure hunts and gallons of blood spilled‚ Europeans found all the ornaments and richness‚ and took possession of them. As stated by Galeano‚ “Before Pizarro strangled and decapitated Atahualpa‚ he got from him a ransom of ‘gold and silver weighing more than 20‚000 marks in fine silver and 1‚326‚000 escudos in the finest gold’”3. This not only shows the extents the Europeans where willing to go to for wealth and glory‚ but also the enslavement
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died along with many military leaders‚ governors‚ and family members. The death of Huayna Capac’s son‚ Ninan Cucuchi‚ left the empire in disarray and triggered a war that ended in the lands being split. Pizarro and his men captured the Emperor Atahualpa without the loss of a single soldier. Once the emperor was captured‚ the battle was over. Pizarro held him for ransom‚ demanding money and wealth from the natives in return for his freedom. But He later had him executed the nice guy he was. The Spanish
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Moctezuma in Tenochtitlan‚ the capital of the Aztec Empire (Today Mexico City). In South America‚ after years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes‚ 168 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting but ended in Spanish victory in 1572 and colonization of the region as the Viceroyalty of Peru. Spanish conquistadors imposed their technological
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This problem has fascinated me for a long time‚ but it’s now ripe for a new synthesis because of recent advances in many fields seemingly remote from history‚ including molecular biology‚ plant and animal genetics‚ biogeography‚ archaeology‚ and linguistics. Eurasians have spread around the globe to dominate the modern world in wealth and power Africans survived & have thrown off European domination but remained behind in wealth and power Contrarily‚ inhabitants of Australia‚ the Americas‚ and
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1. Commercial cities that served as meeting points between distant cultures are called: a. way stations. b. warehouses. c. entrepôts. d. shipping centers. e. nodes. 2. Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt: a. did not need to provide protection for merchants as most trade came by land rather than by sea. b. established a commercial law apart from religion so that all people could participate in trade. c. had Muslim and Jewish trading firms that worked as close partners in
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Prologue: Yali’s Question Jared Diamond has done extensive field work in New Guinea. His indigenous New Guinean politician friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence
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Monsanto Sustainable Responsible Business: A study of the performances of Monsanto In today’s modern business world‚ commerce implements operation‚ drive and manner notions with endorsement and adoption of corporate social responsibility as a matter of course (David Henderson 2004). The stakeholder groups‚ for instance‚ governments‚ communities‚ suppliers‚ employees‚ customers and stockholders persistently claim administrators to dedicate capitals to corporate social responsibility (McWilliams
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We know from history many various civilizations. Civilizations like Sumerian (4000 BC)‚ Egyptian (3000 BC)‚ Minoan (2000 BC)‚ and Babylonian (1700 BC). Later‚ the Greek civilization‚ throughout the Macedonian empire‚ ranged as far east as northern India and as far south and west as Egypt. Then Romans were the rulers of the whole area from Constantinopole‚ to Palestine and North Africa to Britain. After centuries‚ the Vikings‚ people from what is now Norway‚ Sweden‚ and Denmark‚ established colonies
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Chapter 15 Outline I. World Contacts Before Columbus 1. The Afro-Eurasian trade world linked Europe‚ Asia and Africa in the 15th century. A. The Trade World of the Indian Ocean 1. Indian Ocean was the center of Afro-Eurasian trade world. 2. Location made crossroads for China‚ India‚ the Middle East‚ and Europe. 3. Trading volume increased over the centuries as merchants congregated in a series of cosmopolitan port cities‚ most had some form of autonomous self-government 4. Most developed
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