The Battle of the Alamo took place between February 23 and March 6, 1836. The battle consisted of a thirteen day siege proceeding an all out attack from the Alamo Mission near what is now San Antonio, Texas. The battle left an estimated 300 of the Mexican forces killed or wounded and just two of the Republic of Texas surviving. I believe that this battle really helped to cement the idea of secession into the minds of the Texians and pushed them to revolt. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico at the time, started to move the governmental system of Mexico towards a dictatorship.
Built as a “royal estate” for the Inca emperor Pachacuti, Machu Picchu is an astounding and perennially mysterious climax to one of the world’s most famous journeys: the Inca trail. Perched high above a sinuous bend in the Urubamba River/ Machu Picchu has lured explorers, poets and pilgrims to its mystical ridge top ever since its discovery. The site of Machu Picchu was discovered on July 24th, 1911 by American historian Hiram Bingham. A group of Quechan’s led the explorer to the peak called "Machu Picchu", meaning "Old Peak". Rumours about several hidden Inca cities had been circulating ever since the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
In Central America, the conquistadors, along with some rival native tribes, annihilated the Aztecs, enslaved them, and proceeded onto systematically destroying the other local Native Americans. The conquistadors proceed to take all of Central America, taking the Indian population in Mexico from 20 million to 2 million in less than a century. All of this can be summed up in one word, genocide. The Conquistadors wiped out a people, and a culture. These are the actions that make these hardy adventurers look like villains.
Sacred Destination Paper Brandy Serrano December 22, 2013 HUM 105 Gregory Underwood Sacred Destination Paper El Dorado or the Lost City of Gold as it was called takes place in South America. The legend of El Dorado first originated at Lake Guatavita where it was told that the Muisca king had cover his body in gold dust and dived from a raft into a sacred lake and his people then began throwing gold and precious gems into the lake as a way to worship the Gods. When the Spaniards and Europeans heard of this city they came to South America in hopes to find the gold. The Spaniards and Europeans searched to find El Dorado and drained the lake in hopes to find it but it was never discovered. Many men who search to find this lost city died trying to find it and one of the famous men was Sir Walter Raleigh.
The movie start with Friar Diego holding the bible and waiting to die. He keep saying he wants to be free. After Friar Diego death, the story begins. It’s start in May 1520, The Temple grounds are covered with bodies slaughtered by the Spanish Armies who arrival in the vast Mexican Empire just after famous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Mexico. The only survival is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin.
In the 1800s the Anglos took the mestizaje’s land and Mexico was forced to give up what it now is Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and California. Some of the native Mexican-Texan now looked at the Southwest as their home, but US built a fence which divided US and Mexico and drove the native Indians and Mexican-Texans off their land. The Americans lynched all the Chicanos and began to work with Mexican landowners to expand in
He set sail for the New World in 1500, while he was on an expedition to Colombia. He was going to try and find gold, but someone took the gold before him, so he settled as a farmer in Hispaniola. Balboa soon found himself in debt. To escape, he hid in a large barrel and was carried on board a ship that was sailing to the settlement of San Sebastián, in Colombia. When the ship was safely in the ocean, Balboa came out of hiding.
It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan [what is now called Mexico City]. The sacred grounds are covered with the countless bodies of priests and nobility slaughtered by the Spanish Armies under Cortés' command. The lone Aztec survivor of the massacre is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin [Damián Delgado]. Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies.
initiated military alliances and campaigns, which gave them the ability to seize lands which included the entire area from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca. They extended control over this vast area throughout Pachacuti’s reign. By 1520 the Inca would rule an area of almost 3000 miles. The people under the rule of Pachacuti were controlled by an ingenious government which had state organization and bureaucratic control. That government had achieved a new level of integration and domination not known in North and South America.
Some historians believe the islands were visited and used by groups of Incas as early as a century prior to de Berlanga's discovery, but this has never been proven. In 1570, mapmaker Abraham Ortelius plotted the Galapagos Islands, calling them the Isolas de Galapagos, or "Islands of the Tortoises," based on sailors' descriptions of the many tortoises inhabiting the islands. By the 17th century, the Galapagos Islands became a popular hideout for British buccaneers who pirated Spanish ships and looted Spanish settlements in Central and South America. These buccaneers and British whalers used the islands as a source of food on long journeys. The islands, still uninhabited on a permanent basis by man and, hence, shrouded in mystery, soon came to be known as the Enchanted Islands because they disappeared into the fog at certain times of year and could not be seen by passing ships.