for two years. One day‚ Pizarro and his men came across a large Inca camp; the Inca Empire covered 3‚000 miles of the western coast of South America. The Inca civilization was very advanced; they built a network of roads and stations connecting the Inca towns and also had the people pay taxes in which some paid in corn and potatoes or gold as well. However‚ the Incan empire fell to Pizarro after a previous war that weakened them. Further down by the south‚ Francisco Pizarro reached Peru‚ Atahualpa
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Contrasting the Aztecs and the Incas: The Aztecs settled in the central valley of Mexico in 1200 A.D‚ while the Incans settled in the Andes Mountains. The Aztec civilization spoke the language nahuatl but the Incans spoke Quecha. Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incas civilization with only few hundreds of men and The Aztecs were conquered by a conquistador named Hernan Cortes‚ who destroyed the population of the Aztecs by the small pox disease. Although these two civilizations had many differences
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and Xicotencatl the Younger‚ captured the emperor Moctezuma in Tenochtitlan‚ the capital of the Aztec Empire (Today Mexico City). In South America‚ after years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes‚ 168 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting but ended in Spanish victory in 1572 and colonization of the region as the Viceroyalty
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were among of the greatest wars of resistance waged by natives against colonial powers in the Americas. The time came for Pizarro to fulfill his side of the bargain an release Atuhualipa. Then he got the news from Quito that one of the Inca`s generals had assassinated Huascar. Atahualpa was accused of plotting against him‚ and was put on trail for treason. A year later Pizarro returned to Tumbes to find it ruined . Then him and his army marched into the interior.All the way‚ "every day‚ every hour"
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The leader of the Spaniard’s was Francisco Pizarro. The first encounter between Spaniards and the Indigenous Americans was quick. The Spaniard’s captured the leader‚ Atahualpa‚ and held as a prisoner for eight months. For his release‚ the Spaniard’s ransom request was the biggest in history. Atahualpa was later killed by the Spaniards after they received the ransom. After a couple of weeks‚ the Spaniard’s decide to meet with the Indigenous Americans. Pizarro tried to talk Atahualpa
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that it will get even worse when exposed to solitary confinement. On the other end of the spectrum though‚ is those who come in with good mental health but slowly deteriorate while in solitary confinement (Gallagher 2014‚ Gordon 2013‚ Pizarro & Narag 2008‚ Pizarro et al. 2014‚ Ridgeway 2013‚ Stroud 2012). This is a problem because our prisoners are not getting those with mental health issues the help that they need before release. If these prisoners are not receiving the mental health treatment they
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Class divide has long been a catalyst for conflict within nations. History is littered with small groups of elites ruling over the masses. Time and time again‚ conflict occurs when the divide reaches a tipping point and the ruling elite bourgeois class and the proletariat masses must resort to violence in order to gain‚ or retain their control. A long history of stronger nations exploiting weaker nations has created a cycle in which a small minority controls most of a nations wealth‚ creating oligarchies
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alliances‚ strategies by the conquerors and superior weapons. The Spaniards were no longer interested in small islands so more exploration occurred to neighbouring territories. Hernando Cortez and Francisco Pizarro sought for the conquest of Mexico and Peru respectively. Both Cortez and Pizarro to discourage retreat or treachery‚ was to order all their boats burned. Their men would either conquer or perish. Hernando Cortez‚ acting essentially on his own‚ with an army of only about 500 men‚ few weapons
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The stories of Gonzalo and Ariel are those who enter the TAZ because of fate. Gonzalo entered the TAZ only because he was in the same boat with Antonio. In the case of Ariel‚ Ariel entered the island because he was the slave of Sycorax. Even after Sycorax’s death‚ Ariel can’t be free because he was trapped in a prison of tree‚ unable to act. Therefore‚ they didn’t have the power to change anything but to accept the truth. In this circumstance‚ Gonzalo imagined his own version of TAZ: a kingdom without
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could get closer and so he could strike the Aztecs down. They wanted to strike down on Aztecs so they could get gold and silver and other goods (Neth). Pizarro had a relationship much like Cortez. He befriended them for a short time‚ then found the right time to strike down on to the Incas just like Cortes when he struck the Incas. Pizarro called the Incas to a meeting with the plan to kill them all. He did just this he meets them and killed all of the unarmed Incas in under an hour. After they
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