The mixture unfortunately only yielded tragedy. The question-at-hand can be evaluated by examining two significant sources: Bartolomé de las Casas’ A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies to King Phillip II and Miguel León-Portilla’s The Broken Spears: the Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Las Casas wrote his account as an appeal to the Spanish king to reassess the situation and cease the conquests, while León-Portilla seeked to
Cortez and Montezuma The author tells us how Hernando Cortez took advantage of Montezuma’s religion and the prophecies with in the religion to destroy and conquer the Aztec Empire. This article is about Mexico the country where I was raised and that attracted my attention to it and because wanted to learn a little more about how the Spaniards were too gruesome and took everything by force like Professor Harriet Joseph told us. I think this would be a better choice than the other articles because it shows us another aspect of the colonization in America; the side where it shows us perfectly the way Spain began exploring America for gold, glory and god. The article’s strengths was that it tell us very well the conflict between the Aztecs and the Spaniards but it lacks of information about the Indians religion and the story of Cortez before he went to Cuba and then to America. The Article was very interesting because you learn about the origins of the land you were raised if you were like me and everything in the article was very clear and not confounding at all.
There forced use was as translators for Columbus and his personal informants of the land, and where gold may be found. Second was the result that came from his arrival to the Americas, mass exchange of diseases foreign to the Old and New world. Next the Spaniards took advantage of the Naïve natives, and treated them “worse then animals in a slaughter home” as stated by Bartolomé de las Casas in his letter Hispaniola. Finally they used natives as slaves, they just called the name by something different so that the Indians would not realize, though the levels in slavery and this term were practically the same. As it is stated in “Christopher Columbus and the New World” when he first arrived in America he claimed the land immediately for Spain, then took seven Natives Prisoner in hopes they would lead him to there leader, as well as too all the gold there.
Through this, they were able to win the trust of many native populations through protecting them from the extremes upon which quite a number of the Spanish civilians were leaning toward. During this time, the church's organization was split into two varied branches. There is evidence that indigenous peoples authored many codices, but the Spaniards destroyed most of them in their attempt to eradicate ancient beliefs. Moreover, we have very little sense of how their production was shaped by interaction with the Spaniards, since the fourth Mexica King Itzcoatl apparently destroyed most earlier manuscripts during his reign from 1426-1440 to preserve his vision of how he constructed the Mexica empire. Therefore, during the Mexico’s colonial era, the lay
Witchcraft (also called witchery or spell craft) is the use of magical faculties, most commonly for religious, divinatory or medicinal purposes. This may take many forms depending on cultural context. The belief in and the practice of magic has been present since the earliest human cultures and continues to have an important religious and medicinal role in many cultures today. Witchcraft is the use of sorcery or magic where It leads to a communication with the devil or with a familiar. It is without doubt irresistible influence or fascination.
Olaudah Equiano Disease, horrible stench, and screams of death were only the beginning of the horrifying trip for many African American slaves from the coast of Africa to North America and “The New World”. The only slight sense of hope in any part of the situation was that where they were going they might at least survive better than they were on the ship. Olaudah Equiano is an extraordinary man in this story; filled with life and ready to fight for it. The gruesome events depicted in “The Life of Olaudah Equiano” portrays this man to be a brave, positive, and caring person in numerous ways. Olaudah Equiano has truly been through it all.
Many factors influenced the conquering of the Aztec people by the Spaniards including the Aztec’s religion, Spain’s superior weapons, alliances, and disease. The first cause of the Aztec’s fall was their religion. They practiced polytheism and used human sacrifice to keep their gods happy. The Aztec’s believed their god Quetzalcoatl planned to return in human form and rule them. The Aztec people mistook Cortes and his soldiers for Quetzalcoatl.
Man’s desire’s of the mind encourages competition among humans, and ultimately; murder (the hunt for blood). Conceptually, dualism is present with the pairing of black vs. white, captain vs. crew, and slaves vs. Calhoun. Captain Falcon, mentions that man cannot be without dualism. “they are signs of a transcendental Fault, a deep crack in consciousness itself.” There is dualism between the states of consciousness. Ironically, this so- called “necessary” pairing veers away from unity, the overall goal of Buddhism.
After Spain and Portugal had made settlements in America, they realized that they had to cope with the indigenous peoples of America, the native Americans. However, instead of coping with them, all they have managed to do is keep them down and suppressed. There was an obvious hierarchy going on in the American colonies at this time, with the indigenous people at the bottom and the peninsulares, people born in Spain and Portugal, at the top. Spain and Portugal felt threatened by the number of indigenous people and reacted by enforcing strict reforms. The objectives of these reforms were to simply keep the Creoles from being superior or even on the same level as the Iberians.
With the Spanish conquistadors, they came upon the Mayan civilization, thinking that they could take control over the civilization, and change the country’s system into the European system. Not only did they try and turn the Mayan civilization into Catholicism, they also tried to eliminate the whole entire population. The other side is the peasant revolt. The occur of the peasant revolt was due to the fact that the priests were mistreating the peasants, making them work 24 hours of the day, and not feed them. The second theory is the Ecological theory, which states that the Mayan civilization collapsed due to natural causes.