they’re screwing us Mexicans” (Riggen‚ 2008). Upon reading the textbook‚ students can see Paco’s statement is true. The United States unfairly invaded Mexico in present-day Texas to create the Mexican-American War in 1846. President Polk disguised his motive of land acquisition under the desire to promote and spread Christianity. Troops murdered and scalped many innocent Mexicans during the war. Mexico eventually agreed to the Rio Grande River being the Texas border; however‚ the natives’ unfulfilled
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The Spanish and English colonies in the New World were similar and different in many ways. The Spanish and English wanted to colonize the New World with the same motives: riches‚ power‚ and more land. The ways they accomplished these goals differed though. The Spaniards initial and primary reason for travelling to the New World was for the discovery of gold and for power (Zinn‚ 2005). In addition to looking for gold and power‚ the Spaniards came looking for new land to claim (Locke et al‚ n.d.)
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AP US History Chapter 1 Homework Definitions: On a separate sheet of paper‚ define the following words/phrases and discuss the significant of each Prince Henry the Navigator Mercantilism Hernando Cortes Roanoke John Cabot Mestizos Martin Luther Enclosure Movement John Calvin Merchant Capitalists Predestination The Plantation Model Encomiendas Conquistadors The English Reformation Separatists Questions: On a separate sheet of paper‚ answer
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Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures Beginnings of America: • Nearly 12‚000-14‚000 years ago / 9000 BC migrations reached the southern tip of South America / 15th century AD = contact with Europeans -> brought with them diseases (smallpox) ended in: demographic catastrophe‚ weakened societies‚ aided Spanish/ Portuguese exploration America before Columbus: • Adaptation to surroundings = nomadic bands‚ hunting‚ fishing‚ agriculture -> created civilizations • Population: a lot more people
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because that is the year Hernan Cortes and 500 Spanish conquistadors came. However‚ we were interested in the
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praised for what the did. The conquistadores systematically wiped out the millions of Native Americans living in Central and South America. Hernan Cortes destroyed the Aztec Civilization because of his greedy desire to acquire all of their gold. Another conquistador Fransico Pizaro killed off a group of natives from Peru called the Incas for the reasons Cortes conquered the Aztecs.The number of natives killed were in the millions in a span of 5 years. The mass slaughter of these Native races is almost
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Bushido Influence and Filipinos We need not question the success of the country of Japan over the years and decades that have passed. Despite being a small country‚ they have managed to surmount others through their handwork‚ heart‚ and passion. They are globally competitive and respected in many fields such as business‚ medicine‚ and sports. It is now generally recognized that Japan has been much the most successful of the countries outside Europe and North America in achieving modernization. (w
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Europeans in the 15th‚ 16th and 17th century had a new state of mind as a result of the Renaissance. They had many motives for exploring since they had many hopes and ideas about other places. They also wanted better lives when the Europeans immigrated as well as fame and fortune as a result of their explorations. The Europeans in the 15th‚ 16th and 17th century undertook exploration and settlement due to a combination of social‚ political and economical motivations. One of the main reasons that
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Bahamas which brought the New World to light for the Europeans. As a result‚ the Europeans started sailing to this New World and because they heard gold could be found there they started conquering native lands in order to get it. For example‚ Hernan Cortes was so distracted by the amount of gold that he could get; he conquered the Aztecs who were at first friendly to them. The
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13MOZAIK13-bel.qxd 11/25/04 12:18 PM Page 7 On the same Track? MOZAIK 2004/1 Sören A S M U S The Conquest of Latin America: Europe and the External Other It has taken a long time to realise how the respective peoples perceived the encounter between people from Europe and people from Latin America. Enrique DUSSEL describes the process of encounter between the European conquistadores and the indigenous people of the Americas from a European point of view in six forms: Invention
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