Spanish Colonization of the Phillipines Essay

Aztecs and Spaniards Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico By: Colby Bryant This book is about the Aztecs and how they came to be. It's amazing how far we’ve come and how we evolved to the people we are today with government and knowledge. It was a lot different back then, especially with the Aztecs. They believed in a lot of different things like: religion, government, parenting styles, etc. It was a very hard, and rough time to be alive in for everybody. People from other countries would travel…

How the Spanish Conquered the “New World” In this essay, I will argue that the most important advantage that the Spanish had that made their conquests successful were the alliances they made with the native people of the America's. Matthew Restall, author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest writes about the crucial alliance Cortés makes with the Tlaxcalan people. "As these Tlaxcalans rightly judged, with Spanish assistance, they would be able to destroy the Mexica Empire and its capital…

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was one of many Spanish conquistadors during the age of exploration. Born in Salamanca, Spain in about 1510, he was the younger of him and his brother. Because of him being the younger of two brothers, Coronado was not set to inherit any land or money from his family. Coronado decided to become an explorer of the new world to make a name for himself. Coronado initially traveled to New Spain, as Mexico was named by the Spanish, with the viceroy of New Spain,…

born in 1484 in Sevilla, Spain and died July 1566 in Madrid. He was a very famous Spanish historian, social reformer, and Dominican friar in the 16th-century. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially elected “Protector of the Indians.” His most famous writing is the excerpt A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias. Las Casas objected to the Spanish treatment of the natives, and in 1542 he wrote an account called A Short Account…

Senator Beveridge Supporting Imperialism Speech Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. Sovereignty is a power to lead one state. The Philippines was once headed by America during the Spanish American War. Back in 1900, Senator Beveridge gave a speech defending America’s right to subjugate savage peoples and foreign governments. Senator Beveridge was a senator from Indiana from March 4, 1899 through March 3, 1911. He explained that America administered the Philippines, which was stated in the…