No writer of world renown is perhaps so little known to North Americans as Chilean poet Pablo Neruda‚" He grew up in Temuco in the backwoods of southern Chile Mixing memories of his love affairs with memories of the wilderness of southern Chile‚ he creates a poetic sequence that not only describes a physical liaison‚ but also evokes the sense of displacement that Neruda felt in leaving the wilderness for the city. "love poetry has equated woman with nature. Neruda took this established mode of
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which was originally inhabited by the Aztec Empire. Cortes was successful in conquering the Aztec Empire because the Aztecs believed Cortes was the God of Quetzalcoatl and disease brought by European exploration. In 1598‚ Juan de Onate was another conquistador who led more soldiers in an attempt to conquer Pueblo in modern-day New Mexico. The Pueblo people were against the Spanish colonizers and successfully drove the Spanish out of their civilization for a
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The Conquest of New Spain was an interesting period of Spanish history‚ during this time the Spanish Empire was in a period of extensive. There are two sources that were written during this time‚ that portray events in different light. The first letter is written by Hernan Cortés to the Spanish king and Holy Roman Emperor Charles the V‚ and is a report written by Cortés about the Yucatan‚ describing its people and Cortés’ journey throughout these lands. The next letter is written by Bernal Diaz del
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Throughout history we find many different kingdoms‚ civilizations and peoples and each of them are unique in their own way. By considering the varying degrees of sophistication‚ different lifestyles ‚ religion and agriculture individuals can examine these peoples and come to understand their way of life and what aspects of their lifestyles made them so different . In an era of conquest and exploring the new world‚ Christopher Columbus discovered a land of promise and opportunity‚ riches and resources
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The abrupt extinction of the megafauna during the Pleistocene in North America dwindled the large animal population to about 70 percent (Martin). The cause of this massive extinction is unclear due to lack of evidence during this time‚ but there are many subjective beliefs that involve both ecological and environmental forces. An ecological force such as human hunters are one hypothesis that is believed to have caused the extinction of the megafauna. This hypothesis is known as the “overkill hypothesis
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during this time period is how Spain continued to try to spread Christianity. They spread Christianity to the Americas in an attempt to convert them from “savages”. They expelled anyone who did not follow their religion just as Spain had for years. Conquistadors continued to spread this religion throughout the New World and also killed any opposition. One example of a change during this time period could be the introduction of the Triangular Trading Route which connected the Americas to Africa and
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This text really showed the huge downfall of the Native American people. I had no idea that there were so many Native American Indians before the Europeans came. All texts I read seemed to downplay or not list the number of them here. It says in the text‚ North and South America contained between 90‚000‚000 and more than 112‚000‚000 people before the coming of the Spanish. That was compared to only 60 million to 70 million in Europe. The diseases really wiped out what seemed to be great civilizations
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connection made between cultures during this time. Having never made contact with the civilizations of South America before‚ the people there succumbed to the foreign diseases and were “decimated in the sixteenth century at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors” (522). The Native South and North Americans that were not killed by disease were exploited and destroyed at the hands of Europeans who sought their gold and to spread their own religion. This lead to European countries becoming rich world super
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“We came here to serve God and the king‚ and also to get rich.” In “The Collision of Cultures”‚ the authors explain the different perspectives of America. Long before the Columbian era‚ people did inhabit the Americas. Indian tribe settled in Mexico known as the Aztecs and Mayans; Further down‚ in South America‚ the vast Incan empire was located. These tribes were each had their own sophisticated society‚ with its own agriculture and trade. However‚ in North America‚ Native Americans were slightly
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In the 1500’s - 1600’s there were many explorers of the New World. One of those explorers was Juan Ponce de Leon. During this time period‚ the Spanish Crown sponsored many explorers‚ but because of his expedition Juan Ponce de Leon was rewarded. Although there were many Europeans‚ Juan Ponce de Leon was one of the hardest working explorers of his time. Juan Ponce De Leon‚ was born in Santervas de Campos‚ Spain in the year of 1460. He married Leonora‚ and had three children with her. When his earlier
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