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    Spanish Culture

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    very Spanish dominant speaking; actually I don’t believe ever hearing anyone speaking English when I was a young boy. Both my grandparents had emigrated from Mexico and settled in Edinburg‚ where they started their family there. My mother was born a United States citizen my father was born in Mexico‚ but eventually found himself in the United States on a work visa. Their culture was very Mexican based with many of the things they did where the same things they were accustomed to doing in México. Now

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    The Colombian Conquest‚ named after Christopher Colombus who mistakenly found the new world and assumed it was India. Conquest is a more realistic term to show you that European settlers robbed the natives of their land by force. The Spaniards however controlled more south‚ while the other Europeans controlled more of what is now North America. The tactics used to control the new land included transmitted diseases by travelers‚ taking force‚ and assimilation. Though the Europeans did unjustly acquire

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    IB History SL/HL Year I Course Instructor: Mr. Tell Shappley Email Address: tshappley@aisr.org Moodle Course Name: IB History I (Shappley) Course Code: HS812A Learning Overview IB History is a two year course that follows the European stream of the International Baccalaureate program. The scope of the course encompasses the 200 year period from Napoleonic Europe to the end of the Cold War. Topics include the causes and effects of World War I‚ the rise of communist Russia‚ the European

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    1. ¿Quiénes eran los dos ganadores del Premio Nobel del país de Guatemala? Miguel Angel Asturias y Rigoberta Menchu ​​Tum 2. ¿Para qué recibieron el Premio? Miguel es premio para la literature y rigoberta es premio para la paz 3. ¿Cómo se llama el libro más famoso de Miguel Ángel Asturias? El mas famoso libro es Hombres de Maíz 4. ¿De qué escribe Menchú Tum? 5. ¿De qué grupo indígena escribieron estos dos autores? Que tanto escrinieron El Maya B. Access the Four web sites given

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    Spanish Conquistadors

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    the western culture the best historical examples are probably conquest of The New World‚ Africa‚ Australia‚ and so on. They didn’t go there mainly to dominate the native cultures‚ but to gain money from local resourses and political power. Now we might ask why didn’t they "just" exploit the land and leave the native cultures be. Which brings me to the second reason‚ which is more from a cultural perspective. Example: Why did Spanish conquistadors think the natives in Sounth America couldn’t be human

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    1066 Year of the Conquest

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    1066 The Year of Conquest Specific short answer questions to help you read and understand the material and to answer the two main questions? 1.) What did David Howarth say about the use of the word “perhaps” when writing about events a thousand years ago and what did he think was just as important as the “factual truth”? In reference to “perhaps”‚ Howarth says that nothing is perfectly certain. To know what people thought or pretended was true if you can discover why they thought it or

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    Spanish Expeditions

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    Ferdinand Magellan Expedition Ferdinand Magellan‚ a Portuguese in the service of the Spanish crown‚ was looking for a westward route to theto the Spice Islands of Indonesia. On March 16‚ 1521‚ Magellan’s expedition landed on Homonhon island in the Philippines. He was the first European to reach the islands. Rajah Humabon of Cebu was friendly with Magellan and embraced Christianity‚ but their enemy‚ Lapu-Lapu was not. Humabon wanted Magellan to kill Lapu-Lapu while Magellan wanted to convert Lapu-Lapu

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    territorial conquests (Sudo‚ 4)." However‚ upon examination‚ it is not fair to make the generalization that Islam is a religion of violence‚ and one notices when looking at world religion on a whole‚ one finds that Islam was no more violent than any other religion. In fact‚ not only is Islam not a fundamentally violent philosophy‚ but we can also see that many other religions normally considered "non-violent‚" such as Christianity or Hinduism‚ have been spread through bloody conquest. Thus‚ in

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    The Spanish Armada

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    The Spanish Armada set sail from Spain in 1588. King Phillip II wished to invade England for both political and religious reasons. Spain put a tremendous amount of money into the Armada and planned for years‚ but in the end the fleet was defeated. The defeat of the Spanish Armada was caused by a series of unexpected events‚ and led to Spain’s downfall as a world power‚ and England’s subsequent rise in power.  King Phillip II had many political and religious reasons to invade England. Because Phillip

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    Genocide in Mexico

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    Blake Hardnett Mrs. Douglass 18 January 2010 Genocide in Mexico This paper explores incidents of genocide that occurred in Mexico from 1945 to 2001. Research focuses on four main episodes of genocide: the October 2‚ 1968 massacre in Tlatelolco; the Corpus Christi massacre on June 10‚ 1971; and Mexico’s Dirty War that occurred from the early 1970’s through the 1980’s; and the genocide of women that has been occurring since the Dirty War. Research indicates that the first three episodes of

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