A People’s History of the United States is a book that explores the history of the United States. Howard Zinn writes from an omniscient point of view‚ this includes the view of the European explorers‚ the Native Americans‚ and scholars who study the discovery of America. Zinn’s book isn’t an alternative history as some say‚ it is history told with excruciating details that allow for reasoning from bias and change the impression of readers‚ and something to learn off of when it comes to history in
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BLACK CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA (MUU-LAN)‚ MEXICO (XI) Gigantic stone head of Negritic African The earliest people in the Americas were people of the Negritic African race‚ who entered the Americas perhaps as early as 100‚000 years ago‚ by way of the bering straight and about thirty thousand years ago in a worldwide maritime undertaking that included journeys from the then wet and lake filled Sahara towards the Indian Ocean and the Pacific‚ and from West Africa across the Atlantic
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those who committed offenses against him. Rape and enslavement had been brought upon the natives. When the natives of the land‚ known as the Arawaks‚ tried to fight back‚ it led to a massacre of their people in which by Columbus? order‚ meant crossbows‚ small cannons‚ lances‚ and swords to destroy them. Even wild hunting dogs were released to rip up the Arawaks‚ whom by the end of the day were dead or ready to ship to Spain as slaves. None of this was ever taught to students. I didn?t know much about
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that has survived. Muiscas were really good at agriculture‚ hunting and fishing‚ commerce‚ textile‚ and mining. Caribis‚ the Name that was given to them by the Spanish people‚ it means cannibal. They dressed much like the Arawaks. They dyed their bodies with a red dye called roucou. The Spaniards‚ believing that was their natural color‚ started the legend of a red-skinned race. The oldest internal armed conflict made that thousands of indigenous people in Colombia fled their lands to escape the
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Haiti’s native Arawaks fell victim to Spanish rule. In 1697‚ Haiti became the French colony of Saint-Dominique‚ which became a leading sugarcane producer dependent on slaves. In 1791‚ an insurrection erupted among the slave population of 480‚000‚ resulting in a declaration of independence by Pierre-Dominique Toussaint l’Ouverture in 1801. Napoléon Bonaparte suppressed the independence movement‚ but it eventually triumphed in 1804 under Jean-Jacques Dessalines‚ who gave the new nation the Arawak name Haiti
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whole reward and Rodrigo never saw any of the wealth promised. When Columbus landed he was shocked what he found. The Arawak Indians had no horses or work animals‚ no iron‚ and only wore small golden earrings. Although they could spin and weave‚ could grow corn‚ yams‚ and cassava‚ they seemed to be his (Columbus’s) ticket to the gold and riches. Columbus took several of the Arawak Indians aboard the ship as prisoners so they could lead him to the gold; although there were very limited amounts of the
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during the Spanish-American War. 2. Zinn’s thesis for pages 1-11 talks about how history only tells itself from the viewpoint of the rulers and victors. Zinn’s goal is to tell about history from the viewpoint of the victims‚ such as the fate of the Arawak Indians when Columbus landed in the Americas. 3. Zinn says that Columbus is traditionally portrayed as a world hero‚ who was the great and admirable discover of the Americas. 4. Zinn disputes Henry Kissinger’s statement “History is the memory
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Darussalam Malay‚ English Chinese Cambodia Khmer spoken by more than 95% of the population (Khmer language is influenced by spoken and written Thai) some French still spoken‚ English increasingly popular as a second language. China Standard Chinese called also Putonghua (普通话) or Mandarin. Wu 吴语 - spoken in Shanghai and in Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province. Yue 粤 - Cantonese‚ official in Hong Kong and Macau. Uyghur (Xinjiang) English (Hong Kong)‚ Portuguese (Macau)‚ Tibetan (Tibet)‚ Mongolian
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The first permanent settlements of Nicaragua were founded in 1524 by a conquistador named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. By September 15th of 1821‚ those small settlements evolved into the Republic of Nicaragua. The president of Nicaragua is Daniel Ortega. He was first elected in 2007‚ and he is currently serving his second term in office. Just like the United States‚ Nicaragua has three branches of government: executive‚ legislative‚ and judicial. Nicaragua is run by republicans. There have been
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When did they come? Jamaica was first colonized by a native group of South American origin who‚ in the early history of Jamaica‚ called their home a paradise of wood and water. The Arawak were there to greet Christopher Columbus when he arrived in Jamaica in 1494‚ beginning a long period of European colonization there. The history of Jamaica as a European outpost saw the island under Spanish rule for 150 years‚ during which the city now known as Spanish Town was established and flourished as the
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