Legacies Of Rwanda Case Study

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Legacies of Rwanda, Spanish, and Residential schools.
To what extent should contemporary society respond to the legacies of historical globalization?
Historical Globalization affected the entire world in the start of 1492; War, Genocide,
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What was being done about it? The Government was trying to prepare the First Nations people for the white society of 1928.
There, the government would end either, ‘Indian Problem’ within two generations. Decades later the aboriginal people were sharing their stories and demanded
Acknowledgments and compensation for their stolen childhoods.
My second Case study will be on the Spanish Conquest (1519 -1521) which will be talking about
Hernan Cortés, the destruction of the Aztecs, and the gold and silver of the economy.
The Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs began in the start of 1519 until 1521. April 21st, 1519: 11 Spanish galleons sailed along the eastern gulf. The Galleons had dropped anchor not far from
The beach of the island of san Juan de Ulua. The Vessels, led by Hernan Cortés, carried 550 men,
As well as 16 horses. The Soldiers got off the ship and set up a camp just off the beach. When
Cortés and his men met the Totonac tribe, Greetings and items were exchanged. With the
Knowledge of a great inland Empire. Hernan Cortés immediately sent a message asking for a
Meeting with the Aztec ruler, Montezuma II. . Messengers had already sent the message to
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Hernan Cortés set forth and claimed their land for god and king, he build a
Settlement on the coat that he christened Villa Rica Della Vera Cruz, since they arrived on Good Friday, to
What they believed is to be a vast and plentiful land. Once that was over, the Spanish Conquest had begun. Even though all of the odds were against the Spanish, they still managed to find the Aztec empire
Due to Cortés' remarkable fortitude and cunning, as well as some coincidental events. When Christopher
Columbus (1492) discovered, "the new world", Spanish and Portuguese explorers continued the quest
For riches in the new world. Among these people were Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba and Juan de
Grijalba who, under the orders of Diego Veláquez, who is the Spanish governor of Cuba, Set out on ill-
Fated ventures to the Yucatan and Mexico's gulf coast (1517 - 1518). Diego Veláquez Commissioned
Hernan Cortés to lead a new expedition westward. Hernan Cortés ransomed fellow Spaniard Geronimo
De Aguilar who had been forced to live among the Mayas after surviving a 1511 shipwreck during one

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