New Spain New Spain was the largest empire in the world and the first to colonize. New Spain was created when Diego Velazquez led two expeditions to Hispaniola in 1517 and Hernando Cortes led an expedition to the mainland of the colony Cuba, west of Hispaniola, in 1519. In 1520, the Aztec city of Azcapotzalco was conquered. This later became a Mexican administrative borough. When the greatest Aztec city, Tenochtitlan, was conquered, the first phase of the Spanish conquest was completed.
On August 13, 1521, the Aztec capital surrendered to Cortes. Every documentation about the conquest is told from a different point of view and a different story. In the past historians have only based the conquest on two documents; Letters Cortes wrote to King Charles V and the True History of the Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Both documents were written by the Spaniards. Seven years after the
Fash was a very interesting book that catalogued the history of the Maya from the Preclassic Period (2000 B.C.E to 250 AD) to the Postclassic Period (900 AD- 1200 AD) including the collapse of the Classic Period centers in the southern lowlands, to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores in 1519 AD. The first section of the book talks about Copan as being the classic Maya center describing Copan as “the Athens of the New World” and also explains the importance of archeological studies at the site. Copan has more hieroglyphic inscriptions and other sculpted monuments than any other Maya ruin, or any other site in the New World. The principal group of ruins, or site core, consists of a series of large buildings constructed around open courtyards which frequently contained stelae and alters. The principal groups contained two basic parts; the north included many low-lying plazas and to the south, the upraised courtyards and constituent structures were built upon the Acropolis .
What this book explains is the concept that China was centuries ahead of Europe in every subject. The book has evidence that they had mapped the North Pole, North and South America, Australia, and most other parts of the world centuries before Christopher Columbus “discovered” the Americas. All of the Renaissance inventions were mostly from the Nung Shu, for example, the world’s first book mass-produced on a printing press. “Between 1405 and 1431, Zhu Dhi assembled a team of three thousand scholars to compile the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia of a scale and scope unparalled in
The customs of the great city of Teotihuacán were used by the mexica about a decade after the lost of the Teotihuacan civilization. After the city was destroyed, the Aztecs would soon later begin the construction of one of the largest island cities in
Originally a poor Spaniard, Cortés was born in Medellin, Spain. In 1518, Cortés was hired by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar to set sail to Mexico and secure its mainland to be conquered. Although, prior to the voyage Velázquez and Cortés had a dispute, and the expedition had been called off. Cortés had ignored his orders and set forth on the voyage in 1519. Cortés sailed with a total of 11 ships, and about 500 men.
Voyages were sent along the West African coast and helped make a stronger economy for Europe due to more trading opportunities with Africa. Between 1492 and 1750, Although Europe was clearly dominant to Africa and Latin America during the Columbian Exchange, their social influence in Africa and the Americas developed more slowly than
From Pearson, “Let us suppose we could prevent the white man, if we liked, from going to lands of which the agricultural and mineral resources are not worked to the full; then I should say a thousand times better for him that he should not go than that he should settle down and live alongside the inferior race”. From this excerpt, we can see that one reason for countries to start colonization is because of to utilize the natural resources of the earth better and with more efficiency. Also, the intervention of the colonial power were to bring “free markets” and trade-routes for their
How did Islam connect Spain to North Africa? 3. What made the trans-Saharan trade so important to Africa? 4. In what ways did Islam affect Ghana and Mali?
Jesus Dominguez Ann Merville Anthropology 20 9 November 2013 Teotihuacan Teotihuacan, located in the highlands of central Mexico, is one of the world's most impressive archaeological sites. Between 100,000 and 200,000 people lived there at its peak around 600 A.D., making it one of the ancient world's largest cities with an urban core covering some twenty square kilometers. Settlement began about 200 B.C. and the basic layout of the city was complete by the mid-second century A.D. Most of the major construction was accomplished within the next hundred years.