deposits were found the Spanish had to secure sufficient laborers to mine it. The exhaustion of gold deposits and laborers in the Caribbean led to the full-scale occupation and exploitation of Puerto Rico‚ Jamaica‚ and Cuba during 1508-1511. Each occupation followed the same pattern of discovery‚ local conquest‚ settlement‚ exhaustive exploitation‚ and finally a push into the frontier for new natural resources and slaves. The men who led these campaigns were known as the conquistadors. They adapted the
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explanation of the causes of the Spanish American War? Why or why not? Use and cite evidence from the documents to support your analysis of this statement. The statement‚ “The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine caused the United States to invade Cuba in 1898‚” is not agreeable because there were other causes for the Spanish American War. The explosion of the Maine was perhaps caused America’s attention towards war to increase. When the Maine exploded many believed the Spanish were responsible even though
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Gods who‚ what ‚why were they there???‚ with this advantage they conquered a civilization once called‚ The Aztecs. The Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs by using powerful weapons such as shotguns‚ canons‚ gunpowder‚ swords killer dogs and furious horses They could advance faster and kill more efficiently . If we compare the difference between Aztecs and conquistadors weapons there is a huge gap between both of them‚ the Aztecs only had bows and arrow and spears‚ they could not do much
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Cabeza‚ a veteran conquistador is part of a failed journey that was meant to find areas on the Gulf of Mexico to settle and to find mythical structures‚ these are the reason why he survived to tell the tale. Cabeza being a veteran conquistador has built a knowledge in survival. Cabeza also knows several languages‚ allowing him to communicate with ease. Cabeza also has knowledge
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Who: Hernan Cortes and some conquistadors What: White Europeans had single handedly conquered the indigenous people of Latin America When: Cortes led the expedition in 1519‚ between 1530’s - 1560’s Why: Slowly within years‚ Hernan Cortes took part in conquests of Cuba and Hispaniola‚ and received more land an native slaves because of this result -“Thousands of native warriors swarm like bees upon the vastly outnumbered conquistadors‚ who against all odds fend them off and survive to fight another
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Examiners’ Report June 2012 GCE Spanish 6SP02 01 Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications Edexcel and BTEC qualifications come from Pearson‚ the world’s leading learning company. We provide a wide range of qualifications including academic‚ vocational‚ occupational and specific programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk for our BTEC qualifications. Alternatively‚ you can get in touch with us using the details on our contact
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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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lives and in the lives of others. Conquistadors such as Columbus‚ Cortes and Pizarro sailed to new lands in order to find gold‚ in order to gain money. They’ve contributed to a series of economical progress when returning to their homeland. Although these same people also contributed in an act of murder but still in the name of progress. Many people suffered in the progress made by the Conquistadors. The late 1400’s and early 1500’s was a time where Conquistadors set sail to find one life changing
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Before the conquistadors arrived in the Aztec empire‚ the city Tenochtitlan had some unusual‚ natural disaster in which between the years of 1517 and 1519‚ the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan had an earthquake‚ then Lake Texcoco had flooded the capital city. The Aztecs believed these disasters warned of the fall of their empire and the return of their god. In 1519‚ the Spanish explorer‚ Hernan Cortes arrived on the east coast of Mexico and to make sure his men cooperated with him marching across the jungle
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513)‚ after crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland. Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain‚ leaving in 1527. He traveled from Florida to Texas on a raft‚ then walked from Texas to Mexico City. He also explored the Paraguay River in South America. De Vaca and his fellow travelers were the first Europeans to see
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