Neither did Europeans or Asians know of the existence of the two American continents (North and South America). Voyages and settlements such as those of the Vikings around the year 1000 to Greenland and North America had no lasting impact. Columbus' voyages of exploration finally brought Europe and the Americas into contact. But why was an oceanic crossing and exploration accomplished in the late 15th century and not before? In Europe, there occurred a rebirth of classical learning and an outburst of artistic and scientific activity known as the Renaissance.
This is the start of a new world, but it is also a start for a series of genocides and tragic! Many people may think that Columbus is a hero, however, I my opinion, I think Christopher Columbus is not a hero but a villain. It is widely accepted that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, however, during 1492, millions of Native Americans already live on that giant lands. If America had been discovered by Columbus, how is that possible that there are people living on it? Moreover, it is also widely accepted that Columbus is the “first” one discover the New World.
Jared Diamond tells a story in his documentary about the conquest of the Americas. To answer his question on how the few Europeans were able to conquer an advanced civilization of tens of thousands of Incan’s and why it was not the other way around, he uses elements of narrative history, when he maps out the chronological conquest of the Americas and how the civilization was physically taken out. And also uses historical analysis to answer why Pizarro took down the Incan’s the way he did and to analyze why he was successful. To answer the second part of the question that he sought to answer, he has experts of the swords, masonry and vintage horsemanship that the Spaniards used as his historical analysis. When he uses materials such as the diaries of Pizzaro’s men and the other textual resources still available he is using history narratively.
From my Australian friend Ian I got a good book, Inga Clendinnen‘s 2003 Dancing with Strangers. It’s an account of one of world history’s most absurd situations. Imagine a tropical continent inhabited exclusively by fisher-hunter-gatherers at a low population density for tens of thousands of years. They’re isolated from the rest of humanity. There is not a single permanent building on the continent.
Maya’s collapse is a myth. The Maya went into decline during the 8th and 9th centuries and were abandoned shortly thereafter. No theory has been able to explain this collapse. Maya’s science was also amazing. They could harness energy, create amazingly sophisticated works of art, engineering, build and sustain a civilization for approximately 1,500 years and it has been shown that the Maya were the masters of their environment.
Unlike many other prominent countries in the world, the United States has only existed for just over 225 years. During the majority of those two and a quarter centuries, America was still undergoing many changes. Compared to countries like England, Spain, France, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, and numerous others, the US is quite young, and the roots of today’s America have not grown very deep. England, however, existed centuries before the US was even thought of, and the Chinese had formed an organized society even further back than that. Throughout the relatively short existence of the United States, our country has changed drastically in order to become what it is today.
Transition: Baseball was invented just before the civil war. Body I. It is unknown who actually invented baseball, some people say Alexander Cartwright and others say Abner Doubleday. A. “In truth, Abner Doubleday and Alexander Cartwright were entirely separate, historically significant individuals who were born and died one year but never met each other.” (Nucciarone, 2009) B.
Pizarro is the head of a few hundred soldiers. Four years after they get in, the whole Empire is theirs. The rapidity of this conquest puzzled a generation of historians: how the Incas, which erected in only one century of civilization history a high rank developed society let themselves overcome as easily by a handful of conquistadors? Answers to this question are multiple and various reasons are here to explain the decline of this civilization. Indeed, the empire reached his apogee during the reign of Huayna Cápac (1493-1525), who died without designating his successor.
Both of these businessperson’s never got their degrees, and only attended university for a couple of years. There are several more successful individuals who have been able to make something of himself or herself without any sort of degree from a post secondary institution, but one must first acknowledge the facts. “In the decade leading up to 2015, nearly 70% of Canada’s projected 1.7 million new jobs are expected to be in management positions or in occupations usually requiring post-secondary qualifications.” Canadian Council On Learning. “Post-secondary education in Canada: Who is missing out?”
The next 25,000 years saw settlements move southerly through Alaska and into Central and South America (Davidson, Gienapp, Heyman, Lytle, & Stoff, 2006). The Aztecs were an Indian civilization greatly affected by the arrival of the Spanish sometime in the 1540’s. The Aztecs had never seen horses, ships or the guns firing from the ships. Men on horseback were thought to be one creature. The Spanish also brought cattle, sheep, oxen, pigs, goats, donkeys, mules, and chickens to the continent (Davidson, Gienapp, Heyman, Lytle, & Stoff, 2006).