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    The Spanish conquest of the Americas was heavily impacted by the cultural demographic and economic change. This led the Spanish to becoming very powerful. The Spanish conquest Was effected by the demographic change. The Spaniards killed off most of the native population. They killed off most of the natives so that they could acquire their gold. Their land was very rich and the natives were very easy to kill off. They did not know about guns so they were ambushed by them. They also weren’t immune

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    Restall‚ _Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest_ New York‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2003 3 pages‚ 889 words _Myths of the Spanish Conquest_ is broken into seven chapters‚ each dedicated to a different myth or mis-conception regarding the Spanish conquest. In debunking these myths‚ Matthew Restall works with three themes regarding the conquest. First‚ that the European discovery of the Americas was one of the greatest events in human history. Second‚ that the conquest was the achievement of "a few

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    The Nahua Interpretation of Spanish Conquest It is very difficult to explain defeat without seeming to make excuses. Such was the task of the Nahua chroniclers whom learned to write their language and produced the codices that were used in The Broken Spears. These accounts were put together by Native Americans roughly thirty years after the conquest based on Nahua oral history. These are not direct first hand accounts and cannot be accepted as specific historical evidence. What can be understood

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    the greatest and strongest civilisations of its time‚ be defeated by only a few hundred men? The answers to this question are many but the one we shall explore is that of the factors that gave the Spanish soldiers the advantage over the Aztecs. The main factor that led to the victory of the Spanish Conquerors was the Aztec religion. The Aztecs had many myths about their gods however the most important was the story about Quetzacóatl (ket-zahl-co-ah-tul)‚ the god of fertility and life. It was believed

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    South America In 1541‚ the Spanish came to Chile‚ South America and they brought grapes‚ olives‚ walnuts‚ chestnuts‚ rice‚ wheat‚ citrus‚ fruits‚ sugar‚ garlic‚ and spices. They also brought different kinds of meat and dairy such as: sheep‚ sausages‚ chicken‚ beef‚ rabbits‚ pigs‚ milk‚ and cheeses. Most of Chile’s cuisines are influenced by other countries that their settlers have brought over with them. For example‚ their own ingredients and cooking methods. Unlike the US‚ Chileans have

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    Conquest Of America

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    Throughout his text The Conquest of America‚ Todorov‚ a french sociologist‚ implements multiple theories written by Walter Ong and Jack Goody in regard to the contrasting effects living in an oral versus a literate society plays on its members. More specifically‚ Ong and Goody claim that the way one communicates‚ greatly affects their thought processes as well as their physical brain. To explore this‚ Todorov uses Cortes’ and Montezuma’s communication techniques throughout their battle to highlight

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    The book offers important events and discoveries that were by the Spanish in both Europe and America. The author highlights that the Spanish were first people to discover the printing press. The Spanish Conquest was made possible by the elaborate strategies utilized by renowned individuals such as Christopher Columbus and Pizarro. According to Restall (2003)‚ the European discovery and the conquest of the America were as a result of courageous adventurers. The author highlights how powerful empires

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    fallen to the Spanish conquistadors. Cortes and his followers had only landed in Mexico in April 1519. By the time of Cortes’ last departure form Spain in 1540; Mexico City had become a powerful colonial metropolis‚ the capital of a Spanish territory extending south into Central America and North to or beyond the Gulf of California. The campaign waged by Cortes was so successful that all ensuing campaigns were modelled upon the Aztec conquest. The question posed is how was the conquest of Mexico achieved

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    Advantages the Spanish had over the Incas The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire is one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. This operation‚ although carried out by Spanish conquistadors and their native allies‚ took decades of fighting to subdue‚ one of the mightiest empires in the Americas. One may ask‚ if the Incas were so powerful‚ how could they possibly have fallen to the authority of the Spaniards? Did they not have a strong enough army? Were there

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    The lasting negative impact of the Spanish Conquests in Central America The dictionary defines genocide as the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national‚ racial‚ political‚ or cultural group. Genocide is a strong word and a word not used lightly‚ it is a word that can only describe some events. It is also something that defines the Spanish Conquest exactly. These conquests started in 1492‚ when Christopher Columbus made landfall in Central America with the new discovery of transatlantic

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