Simón Bolívar and his Address to Congress In Simón Bolívar’s message to the Congress of Bolivia‚ he introduced new concepts that he felt would provide a better outcome for the country and the people of Bolivia. He shared his views on what he considered the necessary changes for the Bolivian government. He proposed a new system of representation‚ which were the four political powers. The four political powers are similar to a federal system. He suggested that the people would be the ones who appoint
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings Vocabulary 1. Marco Polo: Marco Polo was an Italian explorer who spent several years in China. When he returned in 1295‚ there became a sudden interest in finding a quicker route to Asia. Polo‚ along with father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo‚ was among the first westerners to travel the Silk Road. 2. Francisco Pizarro: Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who conquered the Incas located in Peru‚ in 1532. He claimed land from Panama to Peru for
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Although some may argue that religion has been a dividing force in the past‚ faith and beliefs have brought people together for centuries‚ and therefore religion has been a unifying force in history. For any religion to successfully unite large groups of people‚ it has to have an appealing system of beliefs‚ and both Islam and Christianity have this trait. Islam was originally founded by the Prophet Muhammad in about 622 C.E. He taught that there was only one God‚ Allah. His beliefs and teachings
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of slave system. Even though they did have some things in common there were also many differences that were between these empires. Some differences between these two were that the Ottomans had the devshirme slave system and the Spanish had the encomienda system. The devshirme system was the practice in which the Ottomans recruited and then forcibly took Christian boys from their families and put them in Ottoman society. These Christian boys were called Janissaries. The Janissaries were converted
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On August 10th‚ 1680‚ every Pueblo Native American from the north from Taos pueblo‚ all the way down south to Isleta‚ revolted against all Spanish presence within the New Mexico territory‚ then on August 21st‚ every remaining Spanish settler within the territory started to stream out of the Santa Fe‚ heading for El Paso‚ Texas. With this victory by the Pueblo Natives‚ who were led by a medicine man named Popé‚ they lived for 12 years without any Spanish rule until they came back to the New Mexico
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RIZAL PROVINCE Rizal is a province located in the CALABARZON‚ just 16 kilometers east of Manila. The province was named after the country’s national hero‚ José Rizal. Rizal Governor Dr. Casimiro Ynares III on June 17‚ 2008 announced the transfer of the Capitol from Pasig. Its P 270-million capitol building‚ constructed in Antipolo by Ortigas & Co.‚ owner thereof‚ was completed by December of that year. Built on 5-hectare lot at the Ynares Center‚ it employs 2‚008 employees. The New Capitol was
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settled in Cebu and Manila and placed the barangays under the authority of the King of Spain. Initially‚ the colonized territory was organized into encomiendas to facilitate evangelization and collection of tribute from the natives. However‚ because of reports of abuses committed by the encomenderos‚ the colonial authorities abolished these encomiendas and recognized the government of the archipelago into provinces called alcaldias mayors‚ goviernos or corrregimientos‚ each encompassing several municipalities
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The collision occurred in 1492 on an island off of two large‚ vast continents. Millions of years ago‚ the northern portion of the continent was covered in thick sheets of ice. This provided the passageway for nomadic hunters from Asia to cross over from Siberia (Kennedy and Cohen 5). The descendants of these Native Americans were met with Christopher Columbus‚ who believed that he had reached the Indies. Columbus called these people “Indians” and the misnomer stuck (Kennedy and Cohen 14). Countless
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Bartolome de Las Casas was born around 1484 in Sevilla‚ Spain. He went to Granada in 1497 to be a soldier‚ but he ended up enrolling in the Sevilla cathedral in order to study Latin. He went to Hispaniola with the governor in 1502. He was given an Encomienda for his participation in multiple expeditions. He became a lay teacher of catechism and evangelized the natives. In 1512-1513‚ he became the first ordained priest in America. He received an allotment of Indian serfs after the conquest of Cuba in
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The combination of prolonged warfare‚ exploitation‚ disease and the spread of Catholicism gradually asserted Spanish dominion over the indigenous population in America‚ who nonetheless survived and endured both the conquest and 300 years of colonial rule. Due to Spanish pestilence and wholesale slaughter the Native American population was decimated. Committed by Royal decree‚ Spanish conquistadors converted their New World indigenous subjects to Catholicism. Once Native Americans were scattered Spanish
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