2.1 SPAINS EMPIRE IN THE AMERICAS DEFINE: CONQUESTADORES- Lured by the prospect of vast lands filled with gold and silver‚ these explorers‚ known as conquistadors HERNANDO CORTES- Hernándo Cortés led an army into the American mainland‚ eager to claim new lands for Spain MESTIZO- or mixed Spanish and Native American—population. Their descendants live today in Mexico‚ other Latin American coun- tries‚ and the United States. ENCOMIENDA- encomienda‚ in which the natives farmed‚ ranched
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Americans The first Spanish perceptions of the Native Americans were not filled with acceptance‚ but rather the belief that the natives were manipulative and ignorant people. The overview portrays the main conflicts in the conquistadores’ goals in the Americas. Some were in search of earning great wealth and taking advantage of the Native Americans where as other conquistadores was primarily focused on their mission in bringing Christ to the natives. For both main goals of the conquistadores‚ neither supports
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dramatically due to its dedication to the Christian belief that all men are created equal by God. Why then‚ did the Native Americans’ civil and equality rights seem to parish upon the Europeans’ desire for western expansion in the 1830s? Western America‚ a “new world” to profit-seeking European explorers‚ was home to many different religious and cultural groups including the Native Americans. These two worlds were separated by language‚ landscape‚ tradition‚ and myth. When the Europeans arrived
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de Las Casas did not impact the Indian community as beneficially as many people thought he did – and in fact‚ he indirectly and unintentionally contributed to the very image of the original corruption of both the private and public life in Spanish America. Bartolome de Las Casas was born in 1474 in Seville‚ Spain to Pedro de Las Casas who was a small business merchant. He immediately sent his son to The Academy at the Cathedral
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One very obvious action that the european did was take control of all land and took many once strong civilizations to near extinction in culture. Cortez when to conquer the Aztec empire. Cortez was thought to be a god by Montezuma II who was the “king” of the empire at the time so He allowed free passage for the spaniards into the city. Once they were in they kidnapped the king and executed him publicly. Ten the native started to push the spaniards out of the city. Once Cortez was out of the city
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Elizabeth Sosnovskiy Period 7 2-25-13 Christopher Columbus Essay Many Americans view Columbus as a heroic figure whom is celebrated every year. Children look up to him‚ as an amazing person for being able to “discover” America and citizens are able to spend a whole day off from work/school to reflect on his greatness. However‚ this greatness should in no way be glorified‚ because it is absurd to call Columbus a hero. Columbus had taken credit for things that he didn’t accomplish‚ brutally
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as well as the jewelry worn by the native elites. Moreover‚ they enslaved the Natives to mine the gold for them before melting it down and shipping it to Europe. Keoke and Porterfield stated “by 1542‚ the amount of gold shipped to Europe from the Americas tripled the amount of wealth Europeans had. By 1600‚ the amount of gold and silver in Europe had increased by eight times” . To the Natives‚ these resources were far more important than their monetary value; they were mainly used in their ceremonial
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few warriors who could use them effectively. So they had to give up in the war.The Inca revolt of 1536-37 — along with the Aztec’s defense of Tenochtitlán 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
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Topic A – Final Felipe Fernandez- Armesto has written that the Spanish conquest of the Aztec has long been attributed to what he calls the “conquistador myth”: the notion that the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs “because they were in some sense better‚ better equipped‚ technically morally or intellectually”. Do you agree with Fernandez- Armesto that this is a myth? If explain why? If so explain why not. The question of how a small Spanish army was able to conquer one of the greatest ancient
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America was first conquered by the conquistadors. What was not expected was the harshness and savageness of the native population of the Americas. One Spanish Explorer‚ Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was such an explorer who documented his 8 years with a group of Native Americans known as the Karankawas. In his narrative‚ De Vaca‚ diminishes the stereotype of what Europeans believed the Native Americans were. He uses Imagery to show what a desperate condition his men were in. He creates this image of
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