Traditions and Encounters‚ AP Edition (Bentley)‚ 5th Edition Chapter 24: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania Chapter Outline I. Colliding worlds A. The Spanish Caribbean 1. Indigenous peoples were the Taino a. Lived in small villages under authority of chiefs b. Showed little resistance to European visitors 2. Columbus built the fort of Santo Domingo‚ capital of the Spanish Caribbean a. Taino conscripted to mine gold b. Encomiendas: land grants to Spanish settlers with total control over local people
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America is the most prevailing and dominant country of recent history. Much of America’s success today can be attributed to the early settlements formed here by England. America had been explored and exploited by multiple countries before England finally got colonization and advancement right. The lack of English government intervention‚ the treatment of local Native Americans‚ and the location of settlements produced rapid establishment of a thriving Western culture on the continent. The English
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(Indians as otherwise known) and the first wave of soldiers who settled on the Americas. Titu Cusi’s History of How the Spaniards Arrived in Peru however‚ provides a different perspective and a brand new insight in stark contrast to what is normally presented in most history books. The author being the “son of Manco Inca Yupanqui‚ natural lord of … Peru” (Yupanqui 3)‚ recounts the story of Spanish conquest and colonization of Peru from the perspective of the Inca people mainly during the decline of
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viewed the natives in two ways a form of labor which could be exploited and the success of the Spanish colonies in the Americas was based on this exploitation. On another level‚ they viewed the Indians as having souls which could be brought to their God. This was how they integrated the local people into their European infrastructures‚ they focused on conversion and colonization (missionary) and exploitation and harvest (mercantile) The merchants had the ability to exploit the resources as well as
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CHAPTER 2 : EXPLORING THE AMERICAS VOCABULARY 1. CRUSADES – A series of 9 conflicts between Christians and __________________________ between 1095 and 1291 for control of the “Holy Land‚” or ________________________. These conflicts brought western Europeans into contact with the Middle East‚ as well as into contact with Arab merchants and ________________________ goods from as far away as India and China. 2. MARCO POLO – A _______________________________ adventurer from Venice‚ Italy
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Chapter 1 Outline I. The Shaping of North America A. About 225 million years ago‚ a single supercontinent contained the entire world’s dry land and later enormous chunks began to drift away. B. Continuous shifting and folding of the earth’s crust formed the Appalachians‚ Rockies‚ and other huge mountain ranges. C. The Great Ice Age hits the world and when it retreated‚ it left the entire landscape of North America changed forever. II. Peopling the Americas A. Land Bridge theory 1. Occurred around
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as North America. Columbus actually thought he had found a new and shorter route to the West Indies. When this was announced‚ the news spread like wildfire and it was not soon after that‚ other countries began to send their own explorers. It was a bright and positive time when leaders wanted to claim new land for their country. But‚ what of the people that were already settled in America where Columbus had been so quick to claim for Spain? These people were the real settlers of America‚ the Native
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Daphne Stivelman – 250612808 Essay #2 CGS 3517 – Decoloniality Dr. Wendy Russel December 1st 2014 Walter D. Mignolo’s The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures‚ Decolonial Options successfully tracks the course of Western modernity‚ its reliance on coloniality‚ and presents a variety of ways in which decoloniality exists‚ and has always existed alongside the development of coloniality. He delivers insight on the ways that decolonial options emerged and has the potential to produce other
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Indies with imports to exchange for slaves in Africa. When reaching Africa‚ captains would trade rum and other iron products for slaves to ship back to America. The colonies then exported a lot of agricultural products‚ produced by the slaves‚ to Europe. Several countries were involved in the triangular trade‚ including the Netherlands‚ Spain‚ Portugal‚ England‚ and France. 3. What was the basis of the British Empire? The basis of
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(slide 1) Hello everyone I’m ….. we are gonna talk about an interesting topic which is Decolonization in Yeats’ poems The first thing that comes to our mind after hearing Yeats’ name is the word decolonization Before we’re gonna talk about him ‚ there’re some details about the Irish literature in general . Also‚ in our presentation we selected the important points because all these points if we take them individually we’ll not finish (slide 2) So‚ If you look at this sentence ‚ the main
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