However, the terms were read in Spanish, so of course the Indians failed to follow the conquistador’s terms. And even if they had understood the Spanish demands, it’s unlikely that the Indians would have acknowledged Christianity as superior to their own religion. This unjust act displays a Spanish attitude of greed and domination toward the Indians. The second document deals with the same attitude as the first. It is a description of great conquistador, Cortez, written by Bernal Diaz in 1516.
Lieutenant Nun Analysis Mike Albrecht 09/11/12 History 162 Ms. Bravo The book “Lieutenant Nun” is interesting, almost unbelievable on how it plays out. The author proves that people had chances to start fresh or find other opportunities; whether it was traveling to another country or fleeing because of being wanted by the law. How she travels all around without being caught is beyond me. However, the book proves to show some historical facts and importance because it explains the Spanish expedition throughout South America, how men and women were treated differently within Spain laws, and the importance of religion to the Spaniards. In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas on a voyage sponsored by the Spanish crown, opening the door to colonization in the area.
Source Identification 1. What type of source is it? An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies is primary source; meaning that the information given was from a first hand experience. The source tells the story of Bartolomé De Las Casas many voyages to the “New world” and Spanish discovery. Along Las Casas side were many other explorers including the much talked about Christopher Columbus.
English people was willing to leave Europe because of the war, economic stability, and religious persecution which was due to Henry the 8th and James the 1st. English settler did not begin to arrive until 1942. The first permanent colony was Jamestown, VA which sir Walter Raleigh try to establish but was kicked out with his people. It wasn’t until John Smith arrived in 1608 that household were established but imposed rules and regulations. He organized men to raid Indian villages to steal food and kidnap natives which became slaves.
Then in 1502 Christopher Columbus became the first European to visit the fine country of Nicaragua. That was that for a while until the beginning of the 1520s when the Spanish took more interest in settling the land. The indigenous people kept fighting the Spanish off until the Spanish finally conquered them in 1552. Which would mean they would be ruled by Spain until Nicaragua declared independence
The immediate solution to this problem was the enslavement of the native people through force. Spain devised two forms of forced labor, the encomienda and mita while Portugal had a more generic form of slavery. The natives, along with their cities, near New Spain were captured through conquests by people like Pizaro and Cortes. The natives of Brazil were captured by Portuguese Jesuit expeditions called bandeiras. The main reason for the natives’ enslavement was simply because Spain and Portugal viewed them as inferior and easily dominated them.
Coronado’s expedition of 1512 through the Southwest constituted Spain’s first contact with the Indians. Once again, expansionism and religious intolerance lead to the oppression of the indigenous people. Until the 1600’s, North America was a useless wasteland with nothing to offer to the Spanish, but South and Central America was fully subjected under European rule. So expansionism drove the Spanish northwards to conquer even more land. The Spanish began to crush the Southwest Indians military, enslave and Christianize them.
By the 1600s, Spain, England, and France were all struggling to establish footholds in the newly discovered American continent. Spain achieved initial success when the Spanish conquistadors plundered the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan empires in South America. The French were also successful in the New World, when they established trading outposts along the Saint Lawrence river and traded with the Native Americans for precious animal furs. The English began their colonization efforts in the 1580s when they established their first permanent colonies at Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. The Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth colonies can all be compared on the basis of the motivation for settling, economic conditions, race relations, problems, and
Religion was the real reason that colonization began, with out it, the colonies all over the world would not have ever came to be. The fourteenth century was when factors that would eventually lead to the start of colonization began. The followers of John Wycliffe, also known as Lollards, had pushed their ideas of religious power on the religious community: both the bible and religion had ultimate power over everything (Reformation 4). Martin Luther was one of the first men to openly go against the Lollards ideas. He believed that the Catholic church was corrupt for selling indulgences as penance for sins in that the sale was a way for the Church to exploit the unfortunate and poor (Reformation 5).
The Catholic Church launched a Counter-Reformation to win back lost souls. Many sea captains, especially English and Dutch, were Protestant and they looked on piracy against the Spaniards as a religious crusade. Even before the Reformation, countries trespassed on Spain and Portugal’s monopoly, and France, which was always Catholic, defied the Pope’s ruling of 1493. England and France thought that is they kept to the north of Spanish lands they could not be doing anything wrong. Sebastian and John Cabot (brothers) made two voyages of exploration for England in 1497 and 1516, to the shores of Canada and Newfoundland, but no colonies were founded.