conquistadors came upon the Inca Empire‚ they realized that there were bountiful amounts of treasure such as gold and silver‚ which tempted them to conquer the empire and found their own colonies. Consequently‚ the conquistadors‚ led by Francisco Pizarro‚ fought the Inca and utilized their steel weapons and horses‚ as well as the smallpox virus to rout their enemies. The conquistadors easily defeated the Inca‚ who were already fighting a civil war before the Spaniards arrived. In order to legitimize
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Peru extends for nearly 1‚500 mi along the Pacific Ocean‚ in western South America. To the North is Colombia and Ecuador‚ to the East is Brazil and Bolivia‚ and the south is Chile. Five-sixths the size of Alaska‚ Peru is divided by the Andes Mountains by three separate zones (Peru‚ Infoplease). The sacred city of Caral-supe‚ a few hours north of Lima‚ is speculated to be the oldest site engaged by humans discovered in the Americas. Its 1‚546-acre site dates back 5‚000 years‚ and is now considered
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In his play The Tempest‚ Shakespeare uses the stage to present to the audience a microcosm of society. He minimizes the ideologies of his society so that they are represented through the characters and settings of the play. Through the use of dramatic conventions‚ the playwright examines human behaviour and emotion on a smaller scale. The shipwreck and the island are a world of their own; however‚ they are both representative of wider ideas. The play reflects how human nature shapes a society. There
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The event in Cajamarca lead by Pizarro followed by many men‚ brought many things along with them. Advanced blacksmithery‚ illnesses‚ and animals are some of the major items introduced by this conquest against Native Americans nearly making them close to extinction. This attempts to answer
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*********** HS 201-005 Paper #1 Sept. 8‚ 2010 Spanish and English had similar motivations for exploration of the New World‚ such as gaining land‚ goods from the natives‚ and gold. However‚ their motivations also differ greatly. The Spanish conquistadors also gained slaves from the native people‚ as well as spreading the word of Christianity. The English settlers came to the New World to get away from the religious oppression in England and to practice religion freely‚ and to grow tobacco
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1) The Earliest Americans a) The first settlers of the New World arrived over a land bridge between modern-day Alaska and Russia i) There were more than 54 million people inhabiting the two continents by the time that Europeans arrived in 1492 ii) Over time‚ they split into many tribes‚ developing more than 2‚000 separate languages and cultures iii) Native Americans in Central and South America were hunters‚ gatherers‚ and farmers specializing in maize‚ or corn. (1) About 5000 B.C. hunter-gatherers
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Prologue: The author presents a question by a politician named Yali from a trip to New Guinea in 1972 of how whites were able to bring a great amount of cargo than the natives already living in their land. Yali argues of why it was because of the environment advantage for the Europeans to claim land from the Native Americans to go against racial differences that were made. He also argues of how modern Stone Age people were capable of accomplishing more productions for their societies than those industrialized
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1494 which divided the lands East of the demarcation line (halfway between the Cape Verde Islands) to Portugal and the lands west of that to Spain. Keeping within these boundaries‚ explorers such as Christopher Columbus‚ Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro (among many others) scoured the newly discovered Americas in search of new land‚ but also new sources of wealth. Upon reaching the Americas‚ both in Mexico and the surrounding areas as well as South America‚ one of the main goals was the search
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Sauder School of Business Finance Division COMM 371 Sep-Dec 2011 Gonzalo Morales Marked Problem Set 2 - Solution Notes 1. First‚ compute the correlation coefficient between assets A and B ρ(RA ‚ RB ) = Cov (RA ‚ RB ) −0.0322 = = −1. σ (RA )σ (RB ) 0.14 × 0.23 The assets are perfectly negatively correlated. Consider portfolio P formed from assets A and B such that you invest α fraction of your wealth into A and (1 − α) fraction into B. The variance of such portfolio is σ (RP
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Biblical Themes in Shakespeare’s The Tempest Shakespeare is one of the most prolific and admired writers who ever lived. He certainly knew his craft and was familiar with all of the literature available at the time. One of the greatest books ever written was of course the bible. Written over the course of more than a thousand years it is a miracle in itself that the book exists. Shakespeare knew his bible‚ and his work often incorporated and examined biblical themes. Shakespeare’s last completed
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