the Christopher Columbus’ voyages to the Americas in the late 15th century‚ European powers sought to explore‚ colonize‚ and find valuable resources within the New World. This source‚ a letter‚ was written in 1519 in the city of Tascalteca by the Conquistador Hernan Cortes to the Spanish King Charles IV. At first it seems unusual that he would be writing to the king as his expedition was called off; Cortes is practically writing to his superiors about how he is defying orders given to him. It is possible
Premium
Molly Ball! Period 4! Mr. Rudolph! 25 August‚ 2014! ! Chapter 1: New World Beginnings! ! 1. How did “man” reach the New World? Why did we come?! ! When the Ice Age caused the sea level to drop‚ it exposed a land bridge from Eurasia to North America. Therefore‚ while some nomads took boats to the New World‚ the majority of the first nomadic Asian hunters came to the New World by walking across the land bridge‚ called Bering isthmus. Small bands of these immigrants continued to travel across the
Premium Indigenous peoples of the Americas Europe United States
Undoubtedly‚ cannibalism in any form is shunned in society as horrific crime against the nature of civility—at least by the standards of the Western culture transported to the Americas by the Spanish Conquistadors in the 16th-century. In the ancient Americas‚ cannibalism was another part of native life‚ yet not in the way explorers perceived it. The few and far between tribes who practiced the modern perception cannibalism did so as part of religious sacrifices‚ funerary rights‚ or necessity to preserve
Premium Indigenous peoples of the Americas Native Americans in the United States United States
Kate Shrayber Chapter One: New World Beginnings 1. Prior to European contact‚ the Americas had a diverse array of cultures. In 1200 B.C‚ corn reproduction reached the Pueblo People in the Rio Grande valley. The need to produce corn led the Pueblo People to develop complex irrigation systems. Later on‚ the Pueblo people lived in many villages with multipart buildings. The Mound Builders lived in the Ohio River Valley. The Southwest desert was home to the Anasazi people
Premium Native Americans in the United States United States Indigenous peoples of the Americas
“Why you white man have so much cargo and us New Guineans have so little?” This is the question Yali asked Jared Diamond a University of California Los Angeles professor. This sparked Jared Diamond to answer this question by turning back the clocks of time to an era where everyone lived the same. This is the beginnings of Diamond’s ground breaking and heartwarming three- part documentary called “Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel.” This documentary goes deep into history and answers the main question
Premium Africa Neolithic Agriculture
Jared Diamond explains why geographic luck is the leading cause to an unequal world which gave certain countries advantages and other’s disadvantages. Have you ever wondered why some parts of the world are much more developed than others? Well‚ to find the answer‚ we’ll have to trace this question all the way back to ancient times. Jared Diamond explains that the reason for this revolves around geographic luck‚ to be more specific; the shapes of the continents‚ steel‚ horses and writing are primary
Premium Europe Inca Empire Domestication
- Lost City of Gold "Over the Mountains of the Moon‚ down the Valley of the Shadow‚ ride‚ boldly ride…if you seek for El Dorado."- Edgar Allan Poe Truth to the Myth: • A Spanish conquistador by the name of Francisco Pizarro conquered and plundered the Inca Empire in the 1530’s. This lead to adventurers and conquistadors from all over Europe to move to the New World anticipating conquering and looting for gold‚ silver and jewels to bring back to Spain (Mysterypile: el-dorado) . These men followed
Premium Mexico Indigenous peoples of the Americas United States
titled the work the Indians to satisfy their wickedness pour molten gold in the mouths of Spaniards. de bride never made any effort to visit the Americas to see more at first hand but rather was content to take all his accounts from returning conquistadors and at a sensational spin to
Premium
“The discovery of America‚ and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope‚ are the two greatest events recorded in the history of [human] kind” —Adam Smith‚ in The Wealth of Nations When it comes to the Europeans conquering the Americas‚ Professor Jared Diamond‚ of UCLA‚ has come up with the theory that what separated the winners from the losers‚ was not luck‚ strength‚ or numbers‚ but the lay of the land. It was the geographic locations where the diverse cultures
Premium United States Europe Native Americans in the United States
Chip Bothmann HIST 1052 BOOK REVIEW Matthew Restall‚ _Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest_ New York‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2003 3 pages‚ 889 words _Myths of the Spanish Conquest_ is broken into seven chapters‚ each dedicated to a different myth or mis-conception regarding the Spanish conquest. In debunking these myths‚ Matthew Restall works with three themes regarding the conquest. First‚ that the European discovery of the Americas was one of the greatest events in human history. Second
Premium Caribbean Spain Indigenous peoples of the Americas