“His” Story: Jamaica Kincaid’s Finding of History’s True Definition in “In History” In “In History‚” Jamaica Kincaid tells the readers two stories of historically significant figures‚ Christopher Columbus and Carl Linnaeus. She first explains the discovery of New World and then describes how Linnaeus created the modern version of binominal nomenclature. In between these two stories‚ she vaguely mentions her own history‚ coming from “a place called Antigua”; her own story is only a small proportion
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consumption. Americans typically celebrate people or events that shaped and founded the United States. In Christopher Columbus’s case‚ he did neither‚ and therefore‚ should no longer be commemorated. The third reason Columbus should not be acknowledged to this day is because he destroyed an innocent people group. Taino Indians were the unfortunate people group suffered from Columbus’s brutal actions. Besides killing Indians at disobeyed orders‚ he and his men raped the women. Columbus even began
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The "Lady in Blue" The "Lady in Blue" is a popular Spanish legend in the Southwest and particularly New Mexico. The legend of the lady started with New Mexico Indians in the 17th century and remains popular today. The "Lady in Blue" was in fact a real person""Maria de Jesus de Agreda‚ or Sor Maria‚ as she was called. Sor Maria founded the Convent of the Immaculate Conception at Agreda. Sor Maria had a very strong reputation throughout Spain for her wisdom and sanctity‚ as well as her mystical and
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wasn’t the place he expected to arrive at. Christopher Columbus is responsible for the death of the Tainos because he used the kindness of the Tainos to his benefit‚ ordering his men to enslave and mistreat the Tainos‚ and his bad governing skills. Columbus’s voyage to get gold and spice lef to America in which he was very warmly welcomed by the Taino
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with them for seven years but they kept saying no. Finally‚ he told them that he would go ask the French King for help and that was when the Spanish King and Queen changed their minds at the last minute and decided to say yes. On August 3‚ 1492 Columbus’s three ships‚ the Santa Maria‚ the Nina‚ and the Pinta set sail from Palos‚ Spain. The voyage was very long and frightening and they were about to turn back‚ when on August 12 they spotted land. Columbus and his crew had reached a part of the Bahamas
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The Columbian Exchange Statistics By the Numbers Estimated population of Europe in 1492: about 60 million Estimated population of the Americas in 1492: 40-100 million Estimated population of Europe in 1800: 150 million Estimated population of the Americas in 1800: 25 million (the vast majority of whom were of European or African descent) Major domesticated animals in the New World in 1492: dog‚ llama Major domesticated animals in the Old World in 1492: horse‚ cow‚ pig‚ sheep‚ goat‚ chicken
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of her brother Henry 2. How did a sea route to Asia impact Europe? a. The route allowed merchants to charge lower prices for imported Eastern goods 3. The government of which country sponsored Christopher Columbus’s 1492 exploration? a. Spain 4. How did Ferdinand and Isabella react to Columbus’s first voyage? a. They believed Spain could challenge Portuguese dominance of the seas 5. The Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal in 1494 a. 6. The Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvars Cabral accidentally
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The discovery of America‚ like most things in history‚ is not one hundred percent clear. It is accredited to Christopher Columbus although there were natives living in the regions he discovered. When he landed in the Bahamas in October of 1492‚ it was the first of many times Columbus set foot in the Americas. Funded by Spain‚ the textbook explains Columbus was convinced that “The distance from the west coast of Europe to the east coast of Asia was about 5‚000 miles‚ instead of the actual 12‚000.”(Western
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Allen M.’s article covered many explorers including Columbus. Howard Zinn more wrote his view on Columbus as a story as the other authors wrote a lot of facts and what you would call “boring” information. Both of the authors included gory details of Columbus’s expedition which didn’t create the same “heroic” effect that I learnt from earlier years. These two inserts also might differ because one is a Patriot’s History of the United States and the other is a People’s History of the United States. My
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island. Another reason that I think is for gold‚ there are at least seven of thirteen short paragraphs on gold‚ the rules and taxes. All these reasons are not only hinted but stated in his letter. One can argue that there is a tone of cynicism in Columbus’s
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