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.
The Spanish were cruel, and crazed by the idea of finding treasure and conquering land and the peoples that inhabited them. Some 160,000 Spaniards, consisting mostly of men, subjugated millions of Indians. (textbook) Between slaughtering the Indians and infecting them with devastating diseases such as smallpox, the native population plummeted from over twenty million down to two million in less than a century. The Spaniards biggest problem was their thirst for gold and treasure. Many of the natives that they came across welcomed them wholeheartedly, until they abused the hospitality that was given to them and gave nothing in return.
The Last Conquistador is a film that provides an intense view of the significance of history on people. The film highlights an artist who decides to take on a project, that intended purpose is to make El Paso more popular, the project—a monument of Juan de Onate a Spanish conquistador who named El Paso, but to the artist ignorance his research fail to provide him with the facts that Juan De Onate was also a criminal that was trail for the genocide of the Acoma Pueblo, his crimes included the murdering of almost 2000 indigenous leaving only 250 survivors. (Film, the Last
The Aztec doctors studied the human body and were able to examine many of them, due to the deaths of many from battles with the Mayans. When Cortez entered Mexico, the Aztecs greeted the Spaniards with gold, women, and food. The Aztec and Spaniards were first allies but as time went by Cortez attacked the Aztecs and began to fight them. In 1521, 3years after Cortez landed on Mexico the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs and the Aztec Empire ended. 3.
Summary Preface and Numbering: “How Man? How Many?” Chapter 8 Death is not just a word that defines the extinction of life. Drew Gilpin Faust not only describes death in "This Republic of Suffering" but the magnitude in which death occurred during the Civil War era. She gives the meaning of death a whole new meaning in that it is something that we all do, just differently from one generation to the next. From 1861 to 1865, approximately 620,000 soldiers' lives were cut short, not to mention the 50,000 civilian lives that were also claimed.
A: The major issues Batolome de las Casas bring up is Spanish cruelty towards the Indian people. 7. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples. A: one early and subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples was that in return for bringing back gold and spices Columbus was promised 10 percent of the profits, governorship over new-found lands, and the fame that would go with the title:
The Aztecs believed that the sun fought daily battles against darkness, andthat blood nourished him. Blood of warriors were believed to be especiallynourishing. As a result of this, several thousand people were sacrificed each year tothe gods, and a lot of them were prisoners of war. During the sacrifice, they wereslaughtered in a brutal way The Maya, Aztec, and Inca all had different expectations for men and women.The Incas had particularly different expectations. Families lived in groups calledayllus.
The Mexicans had devastating numbers and in around 90 minutes they had packed the Alamo, murdering all inside. There is some debate over Crockett's death. It is definite that a trickle of rebels about ten were taken thriving and later killed by order of Santa Anna. Some ancient sources suggest Crockett was among them, other sources say he fell in encounter. Crockett and the other so men in the Alamo battled bravely till the
The Cry of Dolores marked the beginning of the long and bloody Mexican War of Independence, which would not conclude until 1821. Millions were killed or displaced in this long conflict. During his trial, Hidalgo seemed to understand what he had wrought and recanted his actions, perhaps foreseeing the bloodbath to come. The Cry of Dolores was the spark that ignited the tinderbox of long pent-up resentment of the Spanish in Mexico. Taxes had been raised to pay for fiascoes like the disastrous (for Spain) 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and in 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain, deposed the king and placed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the throne.
It defined what Mexico was as a society.r Poverty persisted among the vast majority of the population. Mexico’s social structure had a direct effect from the wars. In the late 1820’s the New Government issued a decree expelling all Spaniards from Mexico, which deprived Mexico economy of an important source of capital. The central foundation of economic activity in Colonial Latin America was Indian labor. Wars, diseases, and the acquisition of status led to the mixing of races.