Review Questions for “The Mission” 1. Who are the main characters of this film? The main characters of this film are Father Gabriel, Rodrigo Mendoza, Cardinal Altamirano, Don Cabeza and the Guarani Native American tribe. Father Gabriel is a Spanish Jesuit priest who created a Christian mission in the South American jungle to convert the Guarani Native Americans to Christianity. Rodrigo Mendoza started the movie as a mercenary who captured Guarani Indians to sell to nearby plantations. When Mendoza found his wife cheating on him with his brother, he stabbed his brother.
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. Christopher realizing that the Indians were equipped with barely any weapons, and little knowledge of the other “world.” He immediately took advantage of the situation, scaring the Natives into submission by firing rounds from his cannon. He did this even after the chief of the Indian tribe he scared had assisted him in building the entire fort he then shot from. Once he got authority and respect from the Indians he practically forced the Indians into discovering and searching for gold, in his own benefit. Christopher soon returned back to England with the news of his great success to the royal family.
Harper’s Ferry, was the first target in Brown’s war for slave liberation. His plan was to steal arms and kill any slave holders. Brown’s whole mission was to end slavery and to let people know that slavery was a sin. Brown leads 21 men to battle and they capture some slave owners, hoping that the slaves would join in and help. They thought wrong and the slaves were no extra help, and no sooner militiamen capture Brown and kill his son.
He burned their towns and crops and killed women and kids. Andrew Jackson view was that Jacksonian Democracy had no room for the Native Americans. But people consider Jackson an Indian hater. He fought against then during his military career. When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee Indians fallowing then to keep land that the state of Georgia wanted Jackson.
Spanish priests enter the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a community of Guarani Indians to Christianity. The first belief was challenged when transformation of a one of the main hero Rodrigo Mendoza took place. At the beginning of the movie he is a mercenary and slaver who make his living kidnapping Guaranis and other indigenous people and selling them to the nearby plantations. A crossing point in his life happens when he finds his brother in bed with his fiancée. He kills his brother in a fight and then goes into guilt and depression over what he has done while in the
The Spanish then went on to kill and capture Incan soldiers and Atahualpa probably realised then that the Spanish were after gold and silver and were not there for peace. Atahualpa actually offered them rooms full of gold and silver as a ransom for them to let him go but sadly he was never granted his freedom and was eventually killed on August 29, 1533 (The Fall of the Inca Empire). After taking control of the city Cajamarca the Spanish went on to capture the capital, Cusco and there they picked Atahualpa's brother as the new Sapa Inca giving them a puppet that they could control to their will. The Spanish conquest was the breaking point for the empire because it completely destroyed the empire pushing it to its fall. However, there was still one factor that ruined the Inca empire but didn’t push it because it was a civil war between two brothers within the
There were many factors which contributed to the genocide in Cambodia, one of being Cambodia’s lack of development on the economic domination of the developed world. Cambodian leaders of the group Khmer Rouge wanted to return the country to a peasant state so they rounded up the intelligent and educated and brought them to what became known as the killing fields to wipe them out and leave only the subserviant behind. Pol Pot soon became into power. Pol Pot believed that everyone should be a peasant. And so he removed everyone from the cities and put them on the farm.
What he found instead were the islands in the Caribbean. All the lands he found were inhabited by wild natives and he claimed them as Spanish territories. This is when the American Holocaust started. When Columbus went on his voyage he tried to make people convert to Catholicism. One tool he used was the reading of the Requerimiento.
Also, Africans lost the right to work for themselves and were forced by the Europeans to labor in mines or collect rubber and other plants from the jungle. If the Africans were unable to fulfill the demands of the European soldiers, they were punished severely; many had their hands or ears cut off and some were killed. Another negative effect was that many Africans were brought to the Americas to
Many people believe that slavery of the Native Americans was a result of the Europeans colonizing the New World, but it was not. The indigenous people, long before the settlers arrived were enslaving each other. However, the native people did not exploit slavery on a large scale. Instead, they used the captured slaves to replenish their tribe’s fallen warriors or to replace people who have died of disease. When the Europeans arrived to inhabit America, Native American the slave trade changed significantly.