Charles Purkerson Jr His 108 8/27/14 Zinn Chapter 1 Zinn Q and A Q: 1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History Of The United States? A: 1. Zinn’s main purpose was to give a detailed account of American history from the victim’s point of view or present the history from the point of view of the common people Q: 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? A: 2. Zinn’s thesis is that Christopher
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a Conquistador‚ could speak Nahuatl which was spoken within the Aztec tribes‚ Mayan and later Spanish. Through her Cortes met Montezuma in Tenochtitlan (Lepore‚ J.‚ 2002). A strategy that both Cortes and Pizarro employed was to capture the native ruler‚ as with Montezuma‚ and rule through him. Later the Aztecs stoned and arrowed Montezuma only to find out that Cortes has kidnapped him and ruled over him (Engineering and Empire: Aztec). Encomiendas were grants of native people that the Spaniards gave
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long blade‚ represented a very high point in metalworking technology and became fashionable in Renaissance Europe. Francisco Pizarro‚ a Spanish conquistador‚ and his most trusted officers debated their options for how to deal with Atahualpa‚ the last Inca emperor.
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gardens. 3. What are some of the typical trade goods within the Aztec empire? Which items particularly impressed the Spanish? Typical items that Mexica traded were textiles‚ fur blankets‚ embroidered clothes‚ jewelry‚ and obsidian. Luxury items like translucent jade‚ emeralds‚ tortoise shells‚ jaguar skins‚ and vanilla beans and cocoa were traded among the elites. The Spanish marveled at many of the items and gems the Aztecs owned as well as their markets and temples 4. What are the distinctive
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The collision occurred in 1492 on an island off of two large‚ vast continents. Millions of years ago‚ the northern portion of the continent was covered in thick sheets of ice. This provided the passageway for nomadic hunters from Asia to cross over from Siberia (Kennedy and Cohen 5). The descendants of these Native Americans were met with Christopher Columbus‚ who believed that he had reached the Indies. Columbus called these people “Indians” and the misnomer stuck (Kennedy and Cohen 14). Countless
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Name: _________________________ Chapter 9‚ 10‚ 11‚ 12‚ 13 Grade Booster AP World History All questions are multiple choice. Please circle the correct answer. 1. Out of the following statements‚ which was NOT a result of the Black Death? a. Rise of feudalism in western Europe b. Population decline in China. c. Scarcity of goods throughout Europe. d. Labor shortages in agriculture and industry in England. 2. One of the following statements is a true statement about the Heian period
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One reason the Spanish conquistadors were able to conquer the Aztec and Inca Empire rapidly is that 1. These empires had no standing armies 2. The Spanish had better weapons than the Aztecs and Incas did 3. The Spanish greatly outnumbered the Aztecs and Incas 4. The Aztec and Incas joined together to fight the Spanish Which was a major political change in Latin America in the 19th century? 1. The political power of the Roman Catholic Church has eliminated. 2. The right to vote was extended to all
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little respect for Indian culture. As soon as their boots hit the ground‚ they set about subverting and destroying every aspect of the Indian way of life. The Aztecs attempted to befriend the Spanish explorers‚ but when Hernan Cortez heard his capitol of Vera Cruz had been plundered‚ he capture and killed their leader Montezuma II. The Incas didn’t fare any better. Francisco Pizarro‚ driven mad with greed‚ kidnapped the Incan king‚ Atahualpa and forced his people to pay an outrageous ransom of gold
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the remainder of the Aztecs and Inca in Latin America were either moved or put under forced labor. In North America‚ smaller tribes such as the Iroquois and Algonquin were pushed off of their land by English and Dutch settlers. Both regions also experienced a widespread of disease. In Africa‚ diseases like Syphilis spread easily because most Africans were uneducated about sanitation. In America‚ native populations of the Aztecs and Inca were decimated by smallpox. The Aztecs‚ like the Africans‚ did
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I will know defend the claim that evil is a degree of wrong‚ as well as how it isn’t qualitatively distinct. Eve Garrard argues that evil is the intent to create harm as well as how silence plays a role in this. However‚ philosopher Luke Russell‚ discusses how‚ “Garrard‚ refuses to modify her account by adding the condition that evil actions must be harmful” (). Russell later states that extreme harm doesn’t have to be a contributor of evil. In a sense‚ it has been there but it not always is. This
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