History of the Modern World Midterm Essay 1/08/13 Colonialism and Latin America Eduardo Galeano is a passionate journalist and writer‚ a man that has put this passion into writing about the lost or often overlooked histories of Latin and South Americas. In one of his acclaimed books‚ Las venas abiertas de América Latina/Open Veins of Latin America‚ he looks at the history of exploitation in this place from early European explorers to current United States and European endeavors. In this paper
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of the main reasons they were seeking land was due to their desire for gold‚ and when the natives stopped trading‚ things got very ugly. They started using force to claim their riches. By the time Columbus died in 1506‚ he set out a system called encomienda‚ which granted the men on voyages full ownership over the land and the people living on it. This was the beginning of a slave labor foundation for the early settlers. Long after the Spanish invaded the Americas‚ the English‚ Dutch and French all
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JESUIT LEADERSHIP PRISM 1. We are all leaders‚ and we are leading all the time‚ well or poorly 2. Leadership springs from within. It is about who I am as much as what I do. 3. Leadership is not an act. It is my life‚ a way of living. 4. I never complete the task of becoming a leader. It is an ongoing process. INFLUENCES OF THE JESUITS Father Federico Faura SJ Who prophesied that Rizal would end up on a scaffold (the plain truth) Father Pablo Pastells SJ Who sought to restore Rizal’s
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from the land led them to develop institutions based on subjugating native populations‚ converting them to Christianity‚ and incorporating them‚ along with enslaved and free Africans‚ into the Spanish colonial society. The Spanish incorporated the encomienda system and used Native American labor to extract precious metals
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Terms Prince Henry the Navigator Ferdinand of Aragon Isabella of Castile Christopher Columbus Johannes Gutenberg Gold‚ God‚ Glory—motives for European expansion Pre-Columbian Era Mesoamerica Columbian Exchange Reconquista Conquistadores Encomienda system Treaty of Tordesillas Ghana Iroquois Aztec Essay Possibilities Discuss the Aztec and explain their rise to power in Mesoamerica. What factors contributed to the rise of modern Europe and an age of expansionism from 1000 to 1600
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Chapter 1 – New World Beginnings‚ 33‚00B.C – A.D. 1769 New World Beginnings – the human history of the new world began during the ice-age when‚ because of lower sea levels‚ Asiatic tribes were able to cross the Bering Strait and populate the Americas. Eventually‚ these peoples migrated and dispersed to form tribes and some advanced civilizations on almost every corner of these two continents. Bering Strait – a land bridge connecting modern-day Alaska and Russia. During the Ice Age‚ low ocean
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El Salvador a Country Report 1.0 Introduction El Salvador or the Savior as the name can be translated is a very unexpectedly unique country. El Salvador is a country of many great geographical sites‚ a strange history‚ a blackened economic state‚ and an incredible agricultural base. The country has undergone many changes throughout its history. It was developed‚ owned‚ and operated by many different people and forms of government. This ?land of volcanoes? or ?the Savior? has been needed saving of
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from an ancient Malayo-Polynesian boat called a balangay. The first barangays started as relatively small communities of around 50 to 100 families. By the time of contact with Spaniards‚ many barangays have developed into large communities. The encomienda of 1604 shows that many affluent and powerful coastal barangays in Sulu‚ Butuan‚ Panay‚ Leyte and Cebu‚ Pampanga‚ Pangasinan‚ Pasig‚ Laguna‚ and
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lead to disaster 7. Christopher Columbus-(motive) went to find China but reach Bahamas and then Cuba and then Hispaniola‚ they wanted to convert religion to Christianity and find gold. Reach the Caribbean’s and the mainland of central America 8. Encomienda-a system that permitted the conquering Spaniard to collect tribute from the natives and use them as laborers. In return‚ the holders of an eoncomienda were supposed to protect the Indians‚ pay them wages‚ and supervise their spiritual needs 9.
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Their landings were primarily in Central and South America‚ and on the tip of what we now know as Florida. They became very cruel‚ very quickly; to the Indians they met on these continents. The Spanish government put a system in place called the "Encomienda System" that rewarded Spanish conquistadors with the land they conquered‚ and the Indians they conquered as slaves. The only condition was that they convert the Indians to Christianity. They were also searching for gold‚ and they would do just
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