Both civilizations had their own calendar and counting system along with polytheistic religious beliefs. The Mayans and Aztecs had their own written language. Differences between the civilizations lie in the social and cultural structures. Due to their differing natural resources, both civilizations had different natural strengths. The earliest Latin American civilization was the empire of the Mayans during two periods known as the Pre-Classic period from 2000 B.C.
The Pueblo Indians united and attached the missions, killing hundreds of the missionaries and driving them from their native lands. Soomo. ("New Spain and New France," 2013) As more and more Europeans came to the new land each ethnic group clustered into their own small settlements. They assimilated into the dominant language of English and the political landscape. They maintained some of their cultural traditions and language but did merge into the American culture.
Xavier Baker Chapter 3-Age of Exploration Section 1 Assessment 1.Dutch East India Company was formed to establish and direct trade throughout Asia. -Treaty of Tordesillas was a treaty signed by Spain and Portugal -Vasco De Gama was a Portuguese Explorer who explored the east African coast. -Prince Henry was the son of Portugal’s king. -Bartolomeu Dias was an early Portuguese explorer. 2.Europeans seek new trade routes is the most significant because it opened up new trading opportunities.
4. What resource was the Spanish obsessed with discovering? gold 5. What was an encomienda? a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
There cultures were very different and yet similar, before the Europeans discovered America, the Aztec, Mayans, and Inca Empires were very different compared to the Pueblo peoples culture, but at they were also very alike in many cultural aspects. The Aztec, Mayan, and Incas differed in many was to that of the Pueblo people. All three tribes practiced human sacrifice but for different reasons; the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice because they believed their God demanded them, the Mayans practiced human sacrifice to maintain order and to maintain
Unable to supply food and economical health factors was a cause of many of their fatalities. Infection sat in causing it to circulate throughout the tribe. Newborns with low immunity got sick and it spread throughout the tribe. Studies have shown that population of native groups depends on population density, transmission rates, immunity, subsistence rates, seasonality and geographic locations and social disparity according to our book. My opinion on disease and the Native American is that both article kind of have the same outcome.
Penney goes to state that “although there were many who condemned the use of alcohol in the fur trade, and still today, it was part and parcel of the business in Minnesota during the 1830s.” (pg. 118) For the Indians in the Dakota region, smoking pipes and and tobacco played a pivotal role in their social and religious agendas. Some of their religious rituals actually required the usage of smoking tobacco. The Ghost Dance took place during the late 1880’s and 1890’s, which promised a way life that consisted of an abundance of buffalo’s and “no-whites” (North American Indian Art pg.112). A traditional Arapho Ghost Dance dress displays crows that were considered messengers, magpies who were the guardian spirits, the Arapho cedar tree and turtle that were part of their origins.
North America was originally the home to many Native peoples that strived to live through the seasons without technology or wealth. They depended on the environment, wildlife and cooperation as a tribe. The Indians travelled together in tribes and made a living by hunting, trapping, gathering and trading. Before the Europeans entered North America, the Indians traded with other tribes and used homemade tools from bones and rocks. Ramsay Cook’s article, “The Social and Economic Frontier in North America” provides evidence of the first relationships and trade between the Natives and the first Europeans to arrive in North America.
The island was divided into provinces and each yucayeque or village had its own cacique or chief. This culture impressed the Spanish conquerors, because of their knowledge in construction, the development of a universal language, and creation of a complicated religious cosmology. Taínos had a social structure like this: they had Nitaínos (noblemen, warriors, craftsmen, and artisans) they were in charge of supervising the working class. The Naborias (laborers, lower class). To become a Cacique a Taíno had to b from the Nitaínos and it was inherited.
Between 1420 and 1542 there was so much exploration occurring across many oceans (Pacific/Atlantic). The map of European exploration (Document 2) shows the areas explored and settled by Portuguese, and Spanish. This helps to show how over the centuries growth and expansion, had in fact, grown and expanded. This map only shows the travels of only the Portuguese and Spanish. It could be used to show how certain people under these rulers and how they benefited their rulers' search for conquest but took away everything from the natives.