1040. CABEZA DE VACA‚ Alvar Núñez. La Relación. Zamora: Agustín de Paz & Juan Picardo‚ 1542. COVEY‚ Cyclone‚ trans. Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America. By Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Alburquerque: University of New Mexico Press‚ 1961. DIAZ‚ Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain. Trans. J. M. Cohen. New York: Viking Penguin‚ 1963. HALL‚ Thomas D. Social Change in the Southwest‚ 1350-1880. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas‚ 1989. JONES‚ Grant D. Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule: time and History
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Aztec Essay History has been very cruel to the Aztecs. What do you know about the Aztecs? The first thing that probably comes to your mind is human sacrifice‚ or them being very bloody and gory. Well there is much more to the Aztecs than human sacrifice and wars. The Aztecs were a very advanced and successful civilization. They did perform human sacrifice‚ but it was a part of their religion‚ and it was common for cultures to sacrifice humans at the time. Also‚ all of the things we know today
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Bibliography Columbus‚ Christopher. “Letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella”. In Worlds of History‚ Volume Two: Since 1400. Fifth Edition. Edited by Kevin Reilly. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. 2012. Columbus describes in detail the land he is has discovered‚ and is still exploring. He speaks of claiming the land for the Spanish crown‚ and explains the wildlife and people he encounters. This particular work provides evidence that undermines the power of the Catholic church‚ like the discovery
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History 1301 Mid-Term Exam Review Sheet Bernal Diaz del Castillo- conquistador; on Walter Raleigh first expedition to Cuba‚ discovered Yucatan Roanoke Island coast; third expedition under Cortés‚ Mercantilism conquered the Aztecs & wrote an eyewitness Joint Stock Company account of the conquest of Mexico by the Royal Colony Spaniards for Hernán Cortés. Jamestown Nation State- state that self-identifies as John Smith deriving its political legitimacy from serving
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William McNeill‚ Plagues and Peoples William McNeill was a prominent historian whose works left an undeniable mark in history. He was determined to examine a various number of diseases‚ and how they had affected the world’s population over the years in this book of knowledge. McNeill believed that the spread of infectious disease became a main shaper of history that preyed upon places such as China with the bubonic plague‚ to Mexico and the effects of smallpox. The author points out how several
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There are many cultures out there that could be researched and followed back to the beginning of when their culture and people were created. There are also many methods that you could use to find out how that population was started and where they were originated. However there are a select few out there that don’t have the same luck when it comes to finding their roots and true history. Knowledge about pre-Columbian civilizations comes from two main sources: archaeological remains and the accounts
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Were the Spaniards That Cruel? by Gregory Cerio (Newsweek [Special Issue]‚ Fall/Winter 1991‚ pp. 48-51) [online source: Columbus and the Age of Discovery Text Archive‚ Millersville University http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/CERIO-01.ART] For the Spanish‚ the Columbus Quincentennial stirs an ambivalent nostalgia‚ blending pride and pain. Spain’s shining memories of its Golden Age‚ when the nation stood at the summit of world power‚ have been tarnished by critics
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Great Battle of Otumba: The Turning Point for the Spanish Isidro Gurrola History MO4 Jaime Soto March 12‚ 2008 Introduction The Battle at Otumba is considered one of the turning points in the conquest of Mexico‚ giving the conquistadors a victory at a time when the Aztecs could have destroyed them. A statue of Cortés‚ with the name Otumba on it‚ stands in the conquistador’s home province of Medellin‚ Spain‚ to recall the
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year 1519 by the time the first horses arrived in North America. An exhibition led by Hernan Cortez and he brought these first horses from the West Indies into Mexico. Cortez and his group encountered the Aztec civilization when they arrived. Bernal Diaz del Castillo‚ who recorded the expedition‚ wrote‚ “The natives had not seen horses up to his time and thought that the horse and rider were all one animal”(redoaktree…). It is thought that the early ancestors of natives had encountered the early
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because of the great variety of goods (doc. 6). The numerous manufactured wares also show the type of work and materials that were needed to be done in order to produce the items. (Insert authors’ pov/bias here). In the memoirs of the conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo‚ he describes the quality and vast amounts of goods sold at the Aztec marketplace (doc. 7). He takes not of how the items were displayed and the policies that enforced order throughout the market. However‚ he does show bias because
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