Juan Ponce De Leon’s Case Juan ponce De Leon started his 2nd expedition in 1513 with his crew in search of the fountain of youth. When he arrived to Florida he killed over 500 native Americans in the form of self defense. He has been charged with 2nd degree murder over a 500 count. When Juan Ponce De Leon first arrived the native Americans would not share water, food and shelter with him and his crew. They then shot him in the leg with a poisonous arrow.…
As the world grew and civilizations rose, there were those who used brute force, manipulation, and raping of cultures to gain money, power, and complete control of what they so desired. First starting off with the spanish capture of mexico and then the complete takeover of the Native Americans by the new American settlers. The book that will be used to help explain everything will be Juan Gonzalez revised edition of Harvest of Empire:A History of Latinos in America. When the world was young many powerful countries looked over their sea in search for new lands and treasures.…
The author proves and supports their argument by providing detailed examples of Huitzitzilin’s story of the events that her people endured at the hands of Cortes and his Spanish conquerors. Overall the book is focused on how much power and the importance of…
Journal entry #1 We start out on our expedition and it's very tiresome. We have some supplies but we are going to steal most of it. The purpose of this expedition is to find lots of riches. Journal entry #2 Our fearless leader Hernando De Soto is not so fearless he misses his wife Inés de Bobadilla so much.…
The Spanish, French, and Dutch colonies in North America all interacted with the Native Americans during the 16th century. Spain’s extreme subjugating approach and views on freedom and religion differed from the accepting and collaborative views of the French and the Dutch. Although the French and Dutch had apparent positive approaches compared to Spain, oppression of the Native Americans occurred under the control of all three colonies. The Spanish were the first to colonize North America and their approach lacked moral compass.…
We owe America´s success to our founding fathers who broke from England, before that the pilgrims who came here to escape religious persecution. But in the beginning it was the famous explorers who set out to discover new lands for European monarchies that shaped the country and society we live in today. European exploration was a movement during the years 1440-1550 in which Europe's prominent countries: Spain, France, and Portugal, were on a race to conquer the unclaimed lands of the New world. Colonization happened once explorers, hired by the monarchies, claimed lands for their country, and citizens looking new life took a ship to the New World and settled there.…
Christopher Columbus has always been a controversial topic. Some individuals believe he was a hero and founded the Great America at no one’s expense. On the other hand, some individuals believe that Christopher Columbus was a deleterious, inconsiderate, and clueless explorer. Was Columbus a thief and a murderer and should he have his own holiday, is the topic of theologian Dr. Tink Tinker and BBC producer Mark Freeland’s article, “Thief, Slave Trader, Murderer: Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline” (Tinker and Freeland, 2008, Pg.25). After deliberation and a close look at sources Tinker and Freeland argue that Columbus was a thief and murderer who should not be honored.…
Over the course of history, Native Americans have become interpreted as the subject of periphery by cause of the ill assumptions of how the Christians described them as “Savages”. In the works of Christopher Columbus, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, and Bartolomé de las Casas, the Natives characterized as positive views in such ways that they were as civilized as the Spaniards. However, negative contexts indicated that Indians created war and show no signs of respect. No matter the view, there will always be one fact for certain, that the Christians wanted the land for themselves; coming from a monarch in Spain in which evoked to show patterns of failure alike Roman Catholic Republics and also the Judeo-Christians which met the same fate. The Christians interpreted the land as a distinguished beginning, a land of opportunity, not to mention the evil that God’s territories had.…
Throughout the years there has been much controversy on what events in history have influenced the world the most. Many scholars have agreed that both the Spanish conquest and colonization of Mexico and the Caribbean and the U.S. acquisition of Mexican and Caribbean territories are important turning points in history that have helped shape the social, economic, political and cultural characteristics of different Latin American countries. In order to comprehend the great importance of the Spanish and the American’s invasions, the reader must analyze the readings of Born in Blood & Fire by John Charles Chasteen and Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez. Both of these works are useful in discerning ideas that make the Spanish conquest and colonization and the U.S. acquisition similar and different. The Spanish conquest and colonization of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the U.S. acquisition of territories are similar because both had a racial and hierarchical, political and social system that rose from the transculturation of different races but different because they had different ideas on what Manifest Destiny meant, and they imposed their invasions in different ways.…
These letters written by Hernan Cortes who was a Spaniard conquistador who first conquest of Cuba and thereafter turn his head to the Mexico to conquest as well. In 1519 he sorted out attack of Mexico. Thereafter, he arrived in Mexico on April 22, 1519. By 1521, he had taken all the control of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan ( Mexico City ).After his conquest of Mexico , Spanish chroniclers offered him to write what he saw in Mexico, thereafter he had to write these letters to show what he see in Mexico.…
The downfall of the Aztec Empire in the 1500s was brought about by a very bloody and ruthless conquest orchestrated by Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. Central America was devastated by the aggression of the European invaders who were ransacking every town for their valuables and subjugating the populace. Much of what is known about the events that unfolded comes from primary sources written by the Spanish participants or the stories written by the native Nahua people a generation or two after the whole affair, whose sources mainly consist of oral tellings of the circumstance from their ancestors. In Victors and Vanquished, Stuart Schwartz attempts to juxtapose these sometimes contradictory sources and explore the situation from…
The Incan Empire's expansion dates back to the 1300s, where their then emperor Mayta Capac started expanding outside the Cuzco Valley. The reason: resources. The weather at the time was getting warmer and the crop yields were getting smaller and water becoming more scarce. The Incas were not going to starve, and therefore they started going to war and conquering smaller nations around them so they could exploit their resources.…
Christopher Columbus is viewed as a heroic explorer because of the land he found, however other than that fact not much emphasis has been put into who he was. Was Christopher Columbus truly a heroic explorer or is his legacy one of cruelty, slavery and genocide? As a United States citizen the importance of our nation 's foundation is taught in early childhood, starting with the stories of Christopher Columbus and his significantly important journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher Columbus was a man who believed that by sailing west he would land in Asia.…
“The ‘Wretched Indians’: What We Don’t Learn in History Books” The Spanish Conquest as we know it has been largely painted as a valiant and remarkable achievement deemed justifiable through widely-accepted perceptions of European superiority. Indeed, when taught about these expeditions, rarely are we given sources that encourage us to picture the Indigenous peoples fighting on the same side as the Spaniards; After all, the textbooks say they were the ‘bad guys’ to beat, right? Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths of The Spanish Conquest reveals the subjective perceptions of the Spanish Conquest in an attempt to help modify the erroneous aspects of the Indigenous peoples’ narrative. In addition, as noted by Restall, even William H. Prescott, a historian…
While the idea that the arrival of Europeans to “The New World” brought upon the indigenous cultures of America no small amount of strife and misery, as well as fame and fortune upon the Spanish is widely accepted as fact, there is limitless dissention among historians about the true history of the conquest of “New Spain”. One event that exemplifies this dissention is that of the Siege of Tenochtitlan. In the following analysis I will describe and discuss two conflicting accounts that document this occasion (The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz). The accounts are conflicting in the way each author presents certain events of the siege and manipulates them to represent their…