what’s behind the sweet lure of chocolate. Initially‚ chocolates are from cacao beans‚ from a cacao tree. It came upon the Aztec Indians using cacao beans to prepare their royal drink called ‘chocolati’. But then the great Spanish explorer‚ Hernando Cortez‚ took some beans back with him to Spain. It even grew more and became popular. Until‚ investors created machinery to be more efficient‚ thus less expensive‚ and produced an even better tasting chocolate. Chocolates may contribute good and bad effects
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Civilization and technology are a couple things that the modern era take for granted. Although for the river civilizations that founded these things it wasn’t seen as a luxury but as a necessary notion of revolution‚ and for the river civilizations of the early Americans they accomplished these and more so. There are three amazing early american cultures that will definitely go down in history. These societies are: The Aztecs‚ The Incas‚ and the Mayans. They are well known today‚ and children are
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The Aztec culture were in their high point in the 1500s when Montezuma was the ruler. Montezuma and the Aztecs were looked down by the Spaniards because they practiced human sacrifice and they were a very brutal culture. They weren’t prepared for war because their God was supposed to come on the same year Cortes did‚ the God was supposed to come from the east on a ship and have a beard. Well‚ guess who did just that? Cortes and the Spaniards. The Aztecs had hundreds of thousands of warriors and would
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Cortez and Pizarro were able to defeat superior numbers. This is because the native americans did not have swords or guns to match that of the conquistadors.This as a result helped them capture the leaders and take control of the area. They also brought diseases which also easily killed the natives because they immune systems were not used to it. In conclusion this is why it was easy for them to conquer the Native Americans. The Muscogee Indians were the people who were unfortunately encountered
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To what extent was the acquisition of the new world economically good for Spain Spain wanted a lot of things. It wanted to expand its knowledge of the world that they had never seen. They also wanted to have a larger empire‚ find spices and other riches‚ and expand Christianity. The fundamental aspect of the voyages that were undergone by Spain was to acquire gold and silver to pay for their wars with the Turkish Empire. Beginning with Columbus in 1492 and continuing for nearly 350 years‚ Spain
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Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa and destruction of the Incas made the Europeans realize what power they head‚ and what they could do to the rest of the world. They easily wiped out the Inca’s of 80‚000 with 168 men. From the Battle of Cajamarca‚ Pizzaro came back to Charles I saying that Europe had the power to conquer the Americas. There were reasons Pizarro and the Europeans could conquer the Americas… They had better warfare than the Incas. Pizarro’s men had armor rode horseback and used steel
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Summoned the following response from Cortes; “The majority of Spaniards who come here are of low quality‚ violent and vicious.” This ultimately led to Charles backing down in 1526 and allowing Cortes‚ and later Pizzaro‚ to issue temporary encomienda’s to their men. It is therefore evident that whilst Charles did make attempts to tackle challenges specific to individual countries through diplomatic means‚ he was perhaps too preoccupied with tackling an array of other matters to possess genuine‚ universal
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Jasmine Cortez Manifest destiny was the desire to expand the U.S. from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Little by little manifest destiny was close to completion. Wars were fought; land was bought‚ until finally it was complete. After completion a couple of issues broke out. The issue of slavery along with Manifest Destiny together contributed to the Civil War and secession. Slavery was a really big issue due to the fact that a lot of people were for and against it. Just like a disagreement
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Adira F McNally Adira 1 Mr. Nelson AP Literature and Composition October 9‚ 2014 How Figurative Language Effects Tone in “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” As seen by simply reading the poem‚ one cannot come from it without having a feeling of awe and inspiration‚ along with a new desire to read Chapman’s translation of Homer. The poem is rich with emotion-invoking
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behind European exploration of the Americas was gold. When trying to convince the Spanish monarchy to finance a return trip to the Americas‚ Columbus told the couple that there were “great mines of gold and other metals.” Another explorer‚ Hernan Cortez‚ was quoted saying “ We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart‚ the specific remedy for which is gold.” The Spaniards did in fact find a lot of gold‚ but they found even more silver when they conquered the Aztecs in Mexico. The explorers set
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