rightful actions he has done. Many elementary schools teach the kids that Columbus is a hero and discovered America. But most of these facts are false. All around the country there are young children learning all about how Christopher Columbus is a hero. Which so many children have been learning false information about Columbus? Why do people think of him as a hero because most think he discovered America. But that is also false information. Do you think that people should be learning false information about
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Bartolome de Las Casas‚ The Tears of the Indians A particularly eloquent defender of the Amerindians was Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566)‚ who spent most of his long life in Spanish America. In The Tears of the Indians‚ also published as A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Las Casas described in graphic detail the atrocities inflicted on the Amerindians. His account greatly exaggerated the number of Amerindians killed by the Spaniards; disease‚ for which the Amerindians had
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Throughout several centuries‚ the Spanish conquest of Latin America has been portrayed‚ according to Keen in his textbook‚ A History of Latin America‚ as a "handful of Spaniards" conquering two of the largest empires in Latin America. Now‚ it is true that in comparison to the multiplicity of diverse groups of Native Americans within both the Aztec and Inca empires‚ the number of Spaniards who conquered them were indeed very few in number. However‚ despite the framework of this concept being true
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peoples were the first to inhabit what is now known as Mexico. They created great civilizations such as the Olmec‚ the Teotihuacan‚ Maya‚ Toltec‚ and of course the most powerful of all‚ the Aztec Empire. After Christopher Columbus “discovered” America‚ the Spaniards carried out expeditions to find gold and riches from these faraway lands. In 1521‚ about 500 Spanish soldiers arrived in Mexico‚ headed by an ambitious man: Hernán Cortés. At this time‚ the Aztecs had built a great empire that ruled
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Who: Hernan Cortes and some conquistadors What: White Europeans had single handedly conquered the indigenous people of Latin America When: Cortes led the expedition in 1519‚ between 1530’s - 1560’s Why: Slowly within years‚ Hernan Cortes took part in conquests of Cuba and Hispaniola‚ and received more land an native slaves because of this result -“Thousands of native warriors swarm like bees upon the vastly outnumbered conquistadors‚ who against all odds fend them off and survive to fight another
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Successive waves of Arawak migrants‚ moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America‚ settled the islands of the Caribbean. Around AD 600‚ the Taíno Indians‚ an Arawak culture‚ arrived on the island‚ displacing the previous inhabitants. They were organized into cacicazgos (chiefdoms)‚ each led by a cacique (chief). The final Arawak migrants‚ the Caribs‚ began moving up the Lesser Antilles in the 12th century‚ and were raiding Taíno villages on the island’s eastern coast by the late sixteenth
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for independence and began improving their weaponry and other military based factors. Whenever people grow a desire to do something‚ they tend to act upon it and wanna do more with it. Just like what Christopher Kelly indicated in his famous book America Invades‚ “In the twenty-first century‚ the United States will‚ no doubt‚ face major new challenges to its power and influence around the world‚ and it will face new demands to fight in the name of justice and freedom.” Even after invading Panama‚
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Isabella‚ who during that time were Spanish monarchs. Several years later‚ Cabeza De Vaca was recruited for the expedition to be the expedition’s treasurer. He sailed under King Ferdinand and Isabella’s Grandson‚ Charlves V. He traveled to North America from Spain and eventually landed on the different locations that Columbus stumbled upon in his voyage. They both wrote letters describing their discoveries and the native Indians‚
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Plymouth Have you ever been worried that you would die before confessing all of your sins? In the Plymouth Colony‚ people did that. The Plymouth Colony was the most healthy and safe European Colony in North America. It was an English colony founded on the coast of Massachusetts. It was active from 1620 to 1691. The first residence of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth‚ a location earlier observed and named by John Smith. The settlement‚ which was the capital of the colony‚ is now a town in
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HISTORY OF THE FUR TRADE The fur trade was one of the earliest and most important industries in North America. The fur trading industry played a major role in the development of America‚ Europe and India for more than 300 years. The fur trade began in the 1500 ’s as an exchange between Indians and Europeans. The Indians traded furs for such goods as tools and weapons. Beaver fur‚ which was used in Europe to make felt hats‚ became the most valuable of these furs. The fur trade prospered until the
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