Chapter One - New World Beginnings - 33‚000 B.C - A.D 1769 America’s fruitfulness began when it developed as a landmass and began to show traits of an area that flourished in riches and abundance‚ this was recognized by the Spanish‚ whom took advantage of the untouched land. The Shaping Of North America MI: Chunks of terrain broke off from Pangaea‚ opening up the oceans‚ and forming the land masses we know today. More continental activity formed mountain ranges‚ but after the Great Ice
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interest in converting to Christianity Economic: Portuguese had to be content with quick trade profits Seldom settled in ports they controlled The Spanish Empire in the Americas Social: Conquistadors converted many to Christianity while taking over the empires of the Americas Political: Spanish conquistadors took over Aztec capital (Hernán Cortés) and later on defeated Incas (Francisco Pizarro) Aztec rivals helped in defeat of Aztecs Guns‚ germs‚ and steel
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Geographic luck challenges the traditional explanation of inequality that claims certain races and ethnicities are genetically and culturally superior and inferior. Weaponry is a factor that was influenced by the geographic luck theory. Pizarro’s conquistadors were armed with the best in weapon technology like swords and guns which helped them to do many things. Pizarro is known in history as the man who conquered the Incas by leading
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Christopher Columbus: An Evaluation of Contributions and Personality Who was the navigator‚ colonizer‚ and explorer extraordinaire that fearlessly journeyed the seas and “discovered” the great “New World”? It was Christopher Columbus‚ of course! However‚ in reality‚ Columbus didn’t actually discover the Americas. Rather‚ he traveled to an already-inhabited land with not-so-civilized inhabitants‚ and expropriated both the land‚ and the indigenous people. By doing this‚ he brought settlers from
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Northeast region differed from Spanish settlements in the Southwest because the spanish differed economically and religiously‚ in the difference that the puritans were hoping to establish a settlement to last them a long time while the Spanish conquistadors were working towards establishing a thin veil of influence affecting the economic development in both regions of European settlements and the religious future. The biggest difference between the Spanish settlements and the English Puritan
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------------------------------------------------- Aditi Angiras The discourses of Columbus‚ Cortes and Las Casas in Tzvetan Todorov’s The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other. -- Tzvetan Todorov was born in Stalinist Bulgaria and came to France in the early 1960s. His personal experience of the internal “otherness” which Julia Kristeva describes as “strangers to ourselves”‚ lead him to explore the American encounter which was a “unique event in the history of humanity” in that
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When the Spanish conquistadors came upon the Inca Empire‚ they realized that there were bountiful amounts of treasure such as gold and silver‚ which tempted them to conquer the empire and found their own colonies. Consequently‚ the conquistadors‚ led by Francisco Pizarro‚ fought the Inca and utilized their steel weapons and horses‚ as well as the smallpox virus to rout their enemies. The conquistadors easily defeated the Inca‚ who were already fighting a civil
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The Columbian Exchange was a time when the Old World came in contact with the New World. It is called the Columbian Exchange because Christopher Columbus came to the Americas and traded with the people there which he called Indians. They traded many different things‚ even disease. After a while‚ the Indians realized they would be conquered‚ and that’s what happened. The Europeans would be outnumbered 10 to 1‚ but the Europeans would still win. This is because of disease and new technology. Europeans
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The New World discovery changed history forever. Trade‚ exploration‚ and wealth were all factors that drove 4 countries crazy trying to get their hands on it. The 4 countries of England‚ Spain‚ France and the Netherlands sped to create colonies in this new world. Although England eventually took over‚ the country that was the most successful in colonizing America was Spain because of its strong presence militarily and population wise‚ the strong connections they were able to create and hold‚ and
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imagine avocados going extinct and never being able to taste guacamole for the first time. Before we discuss the avocado’s end let us go back to its beginning. In 1518‚ Martin Fernandez de Enciso‚ a Spanish conquistador‚ wrote in his journal about the first account of the avocado that the conquistadors found commonly growing in Santa Marta‚ Columbia. The Spanish explorers where also the ones that gave the avocado its name by
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