“Within the first 100 years of the Europeans landing in the Americas, nine-tenths of the natives died out because of diseases the Europeans brought with them, such as smallpox and the plague. Corn, chocolate, and hemp were some goods that the Europeans got from the Americas. Most Spanish men were obsessed with three things: Gold, God, and Glory. To obtain these things, they had to go to the Americas. Hernan Cortes, a Spaniard, heard about El Dorado and went to Mexico in 1519 to find it. He ran into a native girl named Malinche, who can speak in the Aztec and Mayan language. She also learned how to speak Spanish very quickly, so she acted as a translator. Cortez then arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, and met with Moctezuma, who was
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After they conquered the people, they settled in those places and began to live there. Many Spanish men had begun to have children with the native women of South America, and those children were called mestizos. Some of these mestizos were used as workers, called peons, but as Bartolome de las Casas thought the treatment was very wrong, the maltreatment of the mestizos stopped. However, African people would soon be brought in to replace the …show more content…
“I don’t know how I’m doing it. All I know is that I have a lesson to teach. Have you understood most of it? Can we continue?”
“I-I guess I understood most of it, but -no! Stop! This is just too weird. My cat, talking to me? Ha! This isn’t real. I’m dreaming. I’m going back to sleep Ringo, the ‘lesson’ is over.”
“What do you mean?” he said, sounding about as distressed as a cat could sound. “We still have more to discuss! Such as triangular trade, which was the trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe! The Americas needed slaves to work to harvest the sugar cane and cotton, the Europeans manufactured the products, such as clothing and rum, and sold it in Europe, as well in Africa in exchange for more slaves to send to the Americas! The boats that the slaves were sent on were called ‘floating coffins’, because only half of the slaves on the boats survived the trip to the Americas. They got there on an ocean passage called the Middle Passage. Not to mention, many Puritans came over from England because they didn't like how King James was running things in their country, and they left to North America, where they set up many different states based on their needs. Religious states were Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Maryland, while corporation states were Virginia, New York, Georgia, and South Carolina. We haven’t even begun to discuss the French and Indian War
After they conquered the people, they settled in those places and began to live there. Many Spanish men had begun to have children with the native women of South America, and those children were called mestizos. Some of these mestizos were used as workers, called peons, but as Bartolome de las Casas thought the treatment was very wrong, the maltreatment of the mestizos stopped. However, African people would soon be brought in to replace the …show more content…
“I don’t know how I’m doing it. All I know is that I have a lesson to teach. Have you understood most of it? Can we continue?”
“I-I guess I understood most of it, but -no! Stop! This is just too weird. My cat, talking to me? Ha! This isn’t real. I’m dreaming. I’m going back to sleep Ringo, the ‘lesson’ is over.”
“What do you mean?” he said, sounding about as distressed as a cat could sound. “We still have more to discuss! Such as triangular trade, which was the trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe! The Americas needed slaves to work to harvest the sugar cane and cotton, the Europeans manufactured the products, such as clothing and rum, and sold it in Europe, as well in Africa in exchange for more slaves to send to the Americas! The boats that the slaves were sent on were called ‘floating coffins’, because only half of the slaves on the boats survived the trip to the Americas. They got there on an ocean passage called the Middle Passage. Not to mention, many Puritans came over from England because they didn't like how King James was running things in their country, and they left to North America, where they set up many different states based on their needs. Religious states were Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Maryland, while corporation states were Virginia, New York, Georgia, and South Carolina. We haven’t even begun to discuss the French and Indian War