The American Pageant Chapter 1 Seraphin Tala Period 2 1. Christopher Columbus: Was a skilled Italian seafarer who discovered an island in the Bahamas on October 12‚ 1492. Appalachian Mountains formed about 350 million years ago. Marco Polo: Was an Italian adventurer. Vasco de Gama: An explorer who reached India and acquired spices Bartholomeu Dias: An explorer who rounded the southernmost tip of Asia. Juan Ponce de Leon: Explorer who explored Florida. Francisco Pizarro crushed
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Hola! I am Francisco Pizarro! You may know me as the explorer to destroy the Inca empire and found Peru’s capital‚ Lima. I was born in 1476 in Trujillo‚ Spain to a poor family. My parents did not pay much attention to me‚ and I had an incomplete education because I spent most of the time herding pigs! I didn’t even know how to read! Now that I think about it‚ I had a horrible childhood. But I was a curious boy‚ hearing stories of the new world. In 1510‚ I decided to go on an adventure. I joined Alonzo
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Matamoros Cult The Matamoros Cult is one of the most gruesome colts that has ever existed in society which was created by a very troubled man named Adolfo Constanzo. Adolfo was born on November 1‚ 1962 in Miami Florida from a Cuban immigrant mother who gave birth to him at the age of 15. His original father died when he was three years old which led for him and his mother to move to San Juan‚ Puerto Rico where she would remarry. Adolfo was a pretty well rounded kid who was baptized Catholic and
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A tourist walks down a busy Mexico City street towards the Zócalo expecting mariachi bands‚ authentic Mexican food vendors‚ and an extravagant cathedral. As the tourist nears the plaza‚ these expectations are partially met; the Cathedral of Mexico City towers over the National Palace‚ mariachi bands rush to perform‚ and a Kentucky Fried Chicken sits next to a McDonald’s (Guillermoprieto 42). The tourist’s expression is now one of confusion as he wonders how fast-food chains and other United States
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Christopher Columbus - 1492 Sails to the New World. Amerigo Vespucci - 1502 American continents named after him. Vasco de Balboa - 1513 Discovers the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando Cortez - 1521 Defeats Aztec Empire. Francisco Pizarro - 1533 Defeats Inca Empire. Hernando De Soto - 1539 Explores the southeastern US. Francisco de Coronado - 1540 Discovers the Grand Canyon Christopher Columbus - 1492 Sails to the New World. Amerigo
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money from local resourses and political power. Now we might ask why didn’t they "just" exploit the land and leave the native cultures be. Which brings me to the second reason‚ which is more from a cultural perspective. Example: Why did Spanish conquistadors think the natives in Sounth America couldn’t be human and
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heroes to the Native Americans in both of the Americas. The most usual way that conquistadores are look as are villains thanks to the ¨Black Legend¨ tortured and of course the Native Americans saying the conquistadors provoke the genocide known as the American Indian Holocaust. The conquistadors didn’t intend to find the Americas they didn’t even think they existed; the only thing they wanted was new trade routes. But either way it doesn’t excuse what they did to the Native Americans using the Encomienda
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Conquistador Beer Suggested Solution October 10‚ 2003 Approach to the Problem • Calculate a Demand Forecast for the Company. Then calculate Break Even Volume and compare them. • Demand Forecast = Industry Demand * Market Share for Conquistador Beer • BEV = Fixed Costs / (Price – Variable Costs) Calculation of Industry Demand • Method 1: Uses Tables A and B. Per capita beer consumption * population Population Per Capita Beer Consumption (gallons)** 33.1 gallons 49.6 gallons Industry
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In the documentary film by John J. Valadez and Cristina Ibarra‚ “The Last Conquistador”‚ sculptor John Houser contemplates in creating the earth’s towering bronze horseman monument for the city of El Paso‚ Texas. Houser visualizes an astonishing sculpture in remembrance of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate that will merit the contribution Hispanic people made to creating the American West. However‚ during the progress‚ things go downhill. Furious Native Americans‚ protest for project to be stopped
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The Spanish conquistadors aimed to express their power through the destruction of the ancient books not only to support their mission‚ but also to maintain a great control over the native population and force them into obedience. Horan and Begay emphasized the intolerant behavior of the Spaniards against other religions to explain the spark behind this incident‚ they stated that under Diego de Landa’s command the Mayan books were “burnt by the thousands because they were written by people who did
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