wanted gold and source of labor‚ so they refused to return same kind of generosity back to the Arawak Indians so they caused genocide to help themselves to reach their “goals”‚ and we can describe these people heartless and hypocritical. Up to this point native people are clearly the more advanced society as a whole compare to Columbus and his sailors. Another point of Zinn’s argument is Columbus and the Arawak Indians are not the only historic case that a group of people mistreated others because of
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The Columbian Exchange Disease and warfare wiped out more than 90 percent of the Indian tribes of the Arawak and Taino as well as the Mayan people in the 1500’s. “These demographic disasters – far more devastating even than the bubonic plague in Europe – were part of what historians call the Columbian Exchange.” According to the authors‚ however‚ this event also “transformed the economies and environments of all four continents.” This would certainly affect trade‚ transportation‚ and population
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AP UNITED STATES HISTORY‚ 2013-14 EUGENIA LANGAN‚ TEACHER SUMMER ASSIGNMENT This summer assignment is due on the first day of class of the 2013-14 school year. It will count as a test grade. Failure to turn the assignment in on time may result in your being booted out of AP.Your answers must be typed.Be sure to read the questions carefully and answer all subquestions within each question. 1. Read 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann‚ then write the answers
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killed thousands of people and lied about what he was doing. He used the innocents of the Arawaks and basically wrote their death certificates. By tricking them into showing their gold and then taking all their people back to Spain was cattle. If it wasn’t the Columbus’s men killing and enslaving them it would be the diseases that they brought with them from the old world that surely exterminated the Arawak people (Burnett III). If could choose which ancient culture to be part
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1. According to Zinn‚ what is his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States? Howard Zinn’s main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States is to give history in an un-biased manner. For example‚ he says that he will not glorify any movement and denounce any ‘bad guy’ in history; he will give information as it should be given. Fairly. 2. What is Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11? His thesis for the first eleven pages is to describe past events as they happened
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Seminar Discussion Agenda Ms. Powell Questions of Fact: These are questions that ask you to recall particular details or events from the text. There is only one answer and it can be directly identified as to page and paragraph. 1. Describe the Arawaks. 2. How does Zinn describe Spain? 3. What‚ according to Zinn‚ were Columbus’s motivations for going on the first expedition? What was Columbus promised in terms of profits? 4. How does Zinn portray Columbus’s character? What are some examples
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producing country inah the caribbean . Jamaica‚ the third largest Caribbean island‚ was inhabited by Arawak natives when it was first sighted by the second voyage of Christopher Columbus on 5 May 1494. Columbus himself was stranded on Jamaica from 1503 to 1504 during his fourth voyage. The Spanish settled in Jamaica in 1509 and held the island against many privateer raids from their main city‚ now called Spanish Town‚ which served as capital of Jamaica from its founding in 1534 until 1872. In 1655 Jamaica
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King Ferdinand’s letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians Below is a letter which King Ferdinand sent along with Columbus on his second voyage to Haiti. It was to be communicated to the Taino/Arawak Indians. It is a fascinating document. The King wants the Indians to acknowledge the Christian religion and God‚ and to accept the authority of the King of Spain. The letter is a mix of promises of benefits that will come to them‚ but quickly followed up with the direst of threats if they do no comply.
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Jamaica. The immigrants from outside Jamaica have brought with them their language as well and languages like Spanish‚ Irish‚ and Scottish. The other two significant languages of Jamaica are Taino and Arawak‚ specific to particular regions. Jamaican Patois‚ known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists‚ is an English-lexified creole language with West African influences spoken primarily in Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora. It is not to be confused with Jamaican English
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attention of anthropologists twenty years ago (1936: 326)‚ but the culture of this people is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin‚ although tradition states that they came from the east.... [4] Nacirema culture is characterized by a highly developed market economy which has evolved in a rich natural habitat. While much
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