American Transformation In 1492

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Overview 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. One of the most important early phases of this transformation, was the so-called Spanish “conquest” of the New World, and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire. For within a few short decades of Columbus’ arrival on Caribbean shores, the Spanish created one of the most formidable empires in European history by conquering and colonizing vast stretches of the Americas. By 1550, Spain dominated the lands and peoples around the Caribbean, and deep into both North and South America: a domain more than ten times larger than…show more content…
Nature provides no such equality in Aristotle; in the Politics he flatly declares, "as regards the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject ''4 (1254b13-14). “ Smith, N. D.(1983). Plato and Aristotle on the Nature of Women, Journal of the History of Philosophy 21(4), 467-478. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved March 28, 2013, from Project MUSE database “Greek society, omen’s status was very low. A woman's main function was the reproduction of children, especially of sons. Confined within the parental home until a husband Women: Lives, Roles, and Statuses7 was chosen for her-at which time she was to be in her mid-teens, he at least fifteen years older- the Athenian women of the citizen class would then be transferred to the home of her husband where she was to fulfill her principle function, of bearing and rearing children. Of those children (on the average, four or five in number, one or two of whom might die at birth), the…show more content…
The ERA was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1971 and by the Senate in 1972. On June 30, 1982, however, ratification of the ERA fell three states short of the needed 38. Later congressional efforts to reintroduce the measure have failed, although a number of states have added equal rights clauses to their constitutions. Since the 1980's the women's movement has focused on diverse issues, including reproductive rights (preserving the woman's right of choice to have an abortion against the fervent pro-life movement), sexual harassment, and the so-called 'glass ceiling' that impedes women in corporate advancement.” Bibliography: Anderson, Bonnie S., Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830 1860 (2000); Flexner, Eleanor, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States (1976; repr. 1996); Leahy, Michael, et al. eds., The Liberation Debate: Rights at Issue (1996); Mankiller Wilma, et al., The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (1998); Mathews, Donald G., and
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