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    The Spanish Conquest

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    Nahua and Inca empires an encounter of the Spanish‚ the meeting of the two cultures was a conquest because the Spanish brutally defeated and took over the indigenous cultures with the help of many advantages. There are three major factors which contributed to the successful conquest between the Spanish and the Nahuas‚ also known as the Aztecs‚ and Incas.  First‚ the Spanish leaders had experience in forming alliances with indigenous people.  Second‚ the Spanish had superior weaponry and military advantage

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    Spanish Colonization

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    western Europeans in the archipelago was the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan‚ which first sighted the mountains of Samar at dawn on 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar)‚ making landfall the following day at the small‚ uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of the Leyte Gulf.[1] Magellan had abandoned his Portuguese citizenship and became a Spanish subject prior to his contract with Spain. On Easter Sunday‚ 31 March 1521 (Spanish calendar)‚ at Masao‚ Butuan‚ (now in Agusan

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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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    Mexican Political Culture As once put by Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz‚ Mexico is a land of “super-imposed pasts” (McCormick‚ p.326). It continues to be and is seen as a melding pot of its European and Native American ideas about society‚ law and government. Its history has had a major influence on the political culture of Mexico‚ seen through years of revolution‚ violence and corruption. Mexico is a considered a new democracy‚ but there is a tension still seen between democracy and authoritarianism

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    Spanish

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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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    Spanish

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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 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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    Mexico Vs Cuba

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    Mexico and Cuba are two primary Spanish speaking nations with rich cultures. These two countries are approximately 1500 miles in distance from each other‚ and historically the relationship has been good until recent years. During the revolution of Cuba‚ many Cubans went to Mexico to seek refuge‚ which Mexico did oblige. The relationship became strained when Fidel Castro made comments about Mexico‚ and the Cold War did not make things any better. Cuba’s influence came from Russia and its communist

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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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    Crime in Mexico

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    Curiel Crime in Mexico In just six years‚ society witnessed the rise in drug related crimes throughout Mexico. Beginning in 2012‚ fewer crimes pertaining to the revolting drug violence have been reported. Where there are thousands of innocent civilians that have lost their lives in the past‚ due to the drug war. Can this assumption be trusted? Or is the media simply withholding information from the rest of the world? Violence relating to drugs has long existed in Mexico before it brought attention

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