served as a masquerade for the creation of a new society in America” (Takaki 28). The Tempest serves as a great reflection of how the english reacted and treated the new land and each other. An example of this occurs when the men are on the land. Gonzalo‚Sebastian and Alonso were happy to be alive after a huge storm. Some of them wanted to just leave‚ other thought the land they were on was a great find. The men viewed the land at first as mysterious and fruitful. Prospero put the men on the island
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to resort to some form of deception in the hopes of achieving their various goals. In Tempest‚ Prospero’s very presence on the island is a direct result of an act of treachery by his brother Antonio. Likewise‚ the act of loyalty on the part of Gonzalo (the packing of his books for the banishment) granted him the power to seize control. It is these two opposite actions that have in fact created the man he has become over his 12 year exile. As a man shaped by both deception and loyalty‚ Prospero
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Mayan Architecture & The City of Tulum Outline I. Intro II. The Mayan Civilization A. Mayan Time Periods B. Mayan Territory C. Mayan Accomplishments D. Mayan Collapse III. Mayan Architecture A. Intro B. Tulum (Case Study) 1. Tulum ’s History 2. Tulum ’s Influences and Styles 3. Tulum ’s Design a. Site 1. Economy 2. Social Class Orientation 3. Defenses b. Buildings 1. El Castillo 2. Temple of Frescos 3. Temple of the Wind 4. Temple of the Descending God 5. Temple
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on a mountain rimmed plateau high in the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes Mountains. This gives it constant spring like weather. It lies only 4°36’ north of the equator. Bogotá was founded on the 6th of August 1538 by the Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada who fought the Chibcha Indians near the site of the populous tribe center called Bacatá. The new city became the vice-regal capital of New Granada in 1717. It was captured by Simón Bolívar in 1819 and was the capital of the independent
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The most important contribution to European expansion was the search for new trade routes. Christopher Columbus in 1492 accidentally stumbled across the Americas on his way to India in search of foreign goods and a new‚ quicker path to get to them. The Europeans already had trade routes‚ but each of them had a flaw. Either the route was too long‚ too costly‚ or too long. The main countries of their times sent different explorer’s to find new trade routes. Portuguese Prince Henry (the Navigator)
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European diseases such as smallpox and measles. Hernan Cortez and his small army conquered the Aztec Empire using advanced technology. The conquistadors used steel swords and armor compared to the wooden clubs and cotton armor of the Aztecs. Francisco Pizarro used similar tactics to conquer Peru. Europeans were motivated to conquer the land and the peoples of North America because the Europeans could easily exploit the Native Americans to do things such as work in the gold and silver mines to boost the
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Local Literature Game Development in the Philippines may just be an infant but it is a fast growing industry. These articles tells us where our own gaming industry went so far. In 2007‚ GDAP was formed in order to promote the interests of the Philippine game development industry. To date‚ it has more than 30 members consisting of schools‚ universities‚ and companies. One of its members is Anino Games‚ the oldest still-running Philippine game development studio‚ which is around a decade old.
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Hernando de Soto was a conquistador that lived in Spain in the 16th century. De Soto explored and helped conquer places like Peru‚ North America‚ and East Asia. Personal background Hernando de Soto was a 16th century explorer that was born 1500 a.d. in Jerez de los Caballeros‚ Spain and died on May 21st‚ 1542 in Ferriday‚ Louisiana. When de Soto was a child he wanted to be a lawyer but his father said he would much rather be an explorer. Hernando was invited by Pedro Arias Dávila on an expedition
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There were many benefits and also many consequences of European exploration around the world. European exploration spread culture around many parts of the world‚ even into new continents that were not previously known about. While the Europeans traded with other countries and people‚ became rich‚ and spread their culture‚ they also made others suffer for their own good. They took over other peoples‚ sometimes forcing them to convert to Christianity while spreading their own territory. The original
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have today. Cortes and Pizarro were both the masterminds of conquest of the largest empires in Latin America. Cortes’ conquest of the Aztecs was rife with luck‚ due to local legends and biological reasons unbeknownst to him‚ and violence. Through a capture-the-leader strategy that was very popular with the Spanish‚ Cortes and his men were able to topple the empire that at the time‚ its capital had a larger population than Madrid or Lisbon (Chasteen 31). Pizarro also had the same results with
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