The discovery of a new world by Christopher Columbus in 1492 opened up new opportunities for trading‚ conquest‚ and political success and wealth in the later years. Spain and England found their way to the Americas (by crossing the Atlantic‚ etc.) and established their own colonies‚ which were able to give their nations profits. In order to have the imperial power of Spain and England benefit from their colonial establishments‚ the dependent nations would use their surrounding natural resources which
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Hernán Cortés was for the most part responsible for the conquest of the Mexicans. He was Spanish conquistador who pursued to gain wealth and admiration. “…to investigate rumors of a fabulously wealthy kingdom somewhere in the interior of the mainland.” (American Promise‚ pg. 34) Cortes and his army were welcomed and were given gold. Consequently‚ Spaniards’ greed grew‚ and Cortés took Montezuma captive‚ then murdering him. “Cortes took Montezuma hostage and held him under house arrest‚ hoping to
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The Aztecs had slavery in their culture ‚however‚ it was much different than other cultures of the world. Slaves were treated more humanely. Their children were born free and they were able to escape slavery. There were some incidences when the person became a slave by their own decision. Their were others that were captured during war and became slaves in that way as well. Oddly‚ slaves could own other slaves in the Aztec culture. Even in the Greek culture slaves
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Throughout history‚ conquests have lead to many changes in society. It lead two major group to shift the political‚ economic and social changes of the nations they conquered. Although these nations conquered others very aggressively‚ they were responsible for developing the changes within the culture and lifestyle of the nations they had conquered. During the early 19th century‚ France was ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon allowed the spread of new thoughts and ideas. Therefore‚ he was influenced
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THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORS DBQ Using the following‚ documents to analyze the Spanish motives for conquest during the Age of Expansion. How did these motives influence Spanish attitudes toward the people living in the New World? Document 1 On the part of the king‚ subduer of barbarous nations‚ we notify and make known to you as best we can that the Lord our God‚ living and eternal created the heaven and earth and one man and one woman‚ of whom you and we and all the men of the world were and
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the Mongol conquest of Islam between 1000-1300 AD and the last and final
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The Spanish age of Exploration was motivated by a desire for new territory‚ wealth and trading partners. The colonisation by the Spanish had a detrimental effect on the Aztec and the Inca civilisations. The Aztecs and Incas were a very advanced civilisation that the Spanish had never seen before. When the Spanish first arrived in the Americas‚ they were surprised to see clean‚ ordered and well planned cities with temples and architecture that was unknown to the Spanish. The Aztec Empire particularly
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Dear my one of a kind diary Early 1519 AD Today I thought it would be a good day to start writing a diary; as I feared I would be set upon as a sacrifice for one of our gods; Tezcatlipoca as he chooses our fate. Whether we should become lucky or not; poor or rich. But luckily I was saved by an old crippled man who was surely going to die soon anyway. I will be forever in his debt. They need the blood of a human which the gods feed on. Other than that I suppose today was normal. While my father
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The Aztec religion was a complex belief system. Its many aspects were intertwined with everyday Aztec life and the lives of other cultures that surrounded the Aztec empire. Their pantheon of gods‚ their temples‚ their priests and rituals were well known throughout the empire‚ and are still known today. The Aztec religion led the Mexica to their homeland‚ impacted their relations with other cultures‚ and in part‚ caused their fall. The Aztec religion was a complex network of gods‚ priests‚ and rituals
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Undoubtedly‚ cannibalism in any form is shunned in society as horrific crime against the nature of civility—at least by the standards of the Western culture transported to the Americas by the Spanish Conquistadors in the 16th-century. In the ancient Americas‚ cannibalism was another part of native life‚ yet not in the way explorers perceived it. The few and far between tribes who practiced the modern perception cannibalism did so as part of religious sacrifices‚ funerary rights‚ or necessity to preserve
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