Colonization Essay

Under the Spanish colonial rule the relationship between Christianity and the indigenous people in the Yucatán peninsula brought on challenges between the two cultures both fighting to coexist. The Spaniards however had other plans when it came to subjugating the indigenous people and starving the land of its resources and riches. The Spaniards wanted to see the Yucatán peninsula in a vision of Spanish ideals and culture preferences forcefully passing on their Christian religion with the idea of…

Jarriett Hicks The reading has some useful vocabulary that was worth noting as it helped me understand the context of the text. Like some other Spanish explorers, Cabeza de Vaca found his journey to be exciting as he was introduced to new species of plant and animal life. However, I cannot imagine Florida’s/Apalachen ecosystem to be much different from that of Spain since it is fairly tropical, but I could be wrong. The excitement was short lived as the Indians from both sides of the lake…

Sepulveda’s strategy for conquest also relies on a more distinctive spiritual basis than Machiavelli, which allows him to justify the enslavement and brutal conquest of the Native Americans. “There are other causes of just wars less clear and less frequent, but not therefore less just or based any less on natural and divine law, and one of them is the conquest by arms, if no other way is possible, of those who by natural condition must obey others and refuse to do so. The greatest philosophers…

A little bit after humans first came to America, two great empires just started to rise up. The Incas and the Aztecs. The Aztecs, a religion-based empire that started from a small city that paid tribute to another empire before becoming an empire that had tribute coming from many different cities. The Aztec civilization even would sacrifice people for their gods! The Inca civilization was a bit calmer, but they still sometimes sacrificed people. They were also religion based, but they focused…

Cortes first encountered the practice of human sacrifices in Cozumel and his absolute horror at what he witnesses fueled his religious ideals. He described the human sacrifices he saw, in which the still beating heart was removed from a living person, like this, “kneaded with the blood of human hearts taken from the breasts of living persons, from which a paste is formed in a sufficient quantity to form large statues. When these are completed, they make them offerings of the hearts of other…

The harsh realities of slavery killed many natives. Other issues such as disease made the native populations continue to shrink. Cash crops were becoming popular in the new world. Already having a colony in Angola, the Portuguese had the perfect place to buy people. These people knew nothing about the new land and would not be ab le to escape and meet up with their tribe. A mix of convenience, racism, and away field disadvantage brought the Portuguese, as well as other Europeans, to the…

Ellena Purnell October 19, 2015 Mexican History The Conquest of Mexico Over the course of history certain accounts of the Spanish conquest of Mexica has been told different ways. This can be owed to the biased accounts of certain events by all parties involved. While some might argue that the Spaniards actions were due to the savageness of the Aztec people, others might argue that the Aztecs were a advanced civilization that conducted life according to their customs and religious beliefs and…

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Content Paper) Bernal Díaz del Castillo a Spanish conqueror and chronicler in the Indies, travelled with Cortés expedition party. Bernal Díaz del Castillo was interested in getting his version of the expedition out to the world. Even though it was years before he was able to accomplish this he believed it was important to explain the “rank and file” of the expeditioners and the Aztecs. The excerpt describes the expeditions walk into the great…

The Conquest of Mexico and Peru were two individual but linked events that led the Spanish to conquer over territorial empires. The historical invasions of the conquests led to many changes in Latin American history, and had effects on the Spanish present day; but changes to European cultures and trading aspects back in the 16th century are insignificant. The Conquest of Mexico was basically the capture of the Aztec Empire, which was ruled by emperor Montezuma. The Conquest of Peru was the…

In general, slavery played a major part in American colonization and became the standard for all colonies and the African American slaves were heavily populated in the Northern and Southern colonies because of the Southern colonies had tobacco plantations and they needed laborers to work their land so, they can make a profit. In short, the Atlantic Slave Trade was established by the Spanish colonists in the Sixteenth century to help solve a need and because they were the most experience sea…