He also appealed to Urban to go to the aid of the Christians that were being harassed by Muslims, he stressed to Pope Urban that many cities were under the control of the infidel (Muslims), especially Jerusalem. Urban called the Council of Clermont to discuss the matter further, once they were all together the Council lasted 10 days from the 18th of November to the 28th. Many things were discussed such as reforms of the church and the extended excommunication of Philip I of France for his adulterous marriage to Bertrade of Montford. On November 27th the Pope spoke of the problems in the East, he declared “bellum sacrum” against the Muslims that occupied the Holy land; it had now become a holy war. There are accounts of a speech made by Pope Urban II however, these were all written after the success of the first crusade so it is not, necessarily, reliable.
The English try to mingle with the natives but in the end they end up fighting. The English fight the Powhatan Tribe and end up killing a lot of them. This movie shows the way settlers and explorers were in the exploration age. The European countries would go to the “New World” and already act like they have owned it forever. The lust for gold drove the English to the Americas and to set up colonies.
Chapter 1 Chapter 1, entitled Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress depicts the Europeans’ initial encounter with the Arawak Indians of the West Indies . The Arawaks greeted Columbus and his crew with hospitality, but little did they know they would soon be taken advantage of and have their culture virtually destroyed. Columbus’s journal entries about this first meeting indicate his feelings of superiority to the Arawaks, which led to enslavement, murder, and rape. The Arawaks were forced to work in gold mines and were killed at the will of the Europeans. Millions of natives were killed in slavery, war, and, mining.
When Columbus stumbled upon the “New World” in 1492, he unwittingly initiated one of the most profound transformations in world history; a transformation that continues to shape the world in which we live today. The conquest of the Americas is known to being a brutal and vicious tragedy. While the newcomers cherished their new findings of spices, sugar, tobacco, coffee, gold, forest and fertile lands, the indigenous people were attacked with diseases, humiliation, destruction of culture and living conditions, and mass death. Since the conquest, historians have puzzled over one question in particular. How did so few Spanish manage to conquer such huge territories and the population taking up those lands?
Journal 1 By Aryan Study Guide PAGE 88 Comprehension 1 Cabeza De Vaca was a Spanish nobleman who set out on an expedition to the Gulf Coast in the 16th century. His sparkling career was cut short when his ships got wrecked off the coast of present day Texas and he found himself enslaved by the Han and Capoque clans of the Karankawa Indians. This passage talks about how he survived among the Native American groups and the skills and strategies he used to fit in. The first thing that Cabeza De Vaca did to assimilate with the Native American culture was to learn their language. This was a pivotal step because without being able to express himself he would never have been able to free himself from slavery.
From the very beginning when Christopher Columbus arrived at the “Indies” he assumed that he can take it to his advantage in using the natives as his personal slaves. He demanded to know where the gold was since this was what he was out to do from the highest authority of Spain. On October 1492 he had arrived to distant islands and was greeted by local Indians. They where wearing what he came to look for and managed to convince them to show him the way in which they had collected this precious metal. Gold was very important to him and specially the Anarchy.
These pioneers shared the same goals of Columbus, greed. They would go out and load ships with slaves, merchandise, spices and just about everything else that they could find to satisfy their needs. Beginning the of excerpt, “God, glory, and gold--not necessarily in that order--took post-Renaissance Europeans to parts of the globe they had never before seen” (1). This quote is a perfect example of religion also taking part in greedy necessities. During these arrival of European explorers, they began a new era of disease within the villages and caused the death of hundreds and hundreds of Natives.
In William Bradford’s essay “Of Plymouth Plantation” he describes the hardship the puritan faced under King James I of England where he started to change things in Protestantism and attacking people who disagreed with him. (133) Fearing the religious persecution William Bradford and other separatists moved to Holland to have more religious freedom. They started following the teaching of John Calvin and calling themselves Puritan separating themselves from the main church of england. When they came over on the mayflower to set up the early colonies there was a lot suffering and death. There was sickness and hunger and most of people’s children die before they reach adulthood.
The First Crusade and the Propagation of Religion The First Crusade was a military attempt by Roman Catholic Europe to regain control over the Holy Lands of Jerusalem, in which the Muslims had taken control of in 661. During this crusade, knights and peasants from many areas of Western Europe went on this pilgrimage, first stopping at Constantinople and then continuing on to Jerusalem. In the group of crusaders, the peasants greatly out numbered the military knights. Many crusaders did not make it the long journey, and the lasting crusaders were mostly the knights, as they were better trained and prepared for such combat. Once the Knights reached Jerusalem, they took control by ransacking every building and torturing and killing almost all of the 60,000 unarmed civilians living in Jerusalem.
As sailors and navigators on board Spanish galleons, Filipinos -- also known as "Manila men" or Spanish-speaking Filipinos -- jumped ship to escape the brutality of their Spanish masters. They built houses on stilts along the gulf ports of New Orleans and were the first in the United States to introduce the sun-drying process of shrimp. Living in the United States, Filipino immigrants experienced racial discrimination from others, as well as themselves. Many Filipino immigrants who immigrated to the United States in the first wave discriminated against new waves of Filipino immigrants. They had also had to find out how they fit in to American society, and keep their own cultural identity.