Spanish Colonization of the Phillipines Essay

There was an order for the arrest of Cortés and when he heard the news of a Spanish expedition he left Pedro de Alvarado in command in Tenochtitlán. The leader of the Spanish expedition was Pánfilo de Narváez. While Narváez was on the coast Cortés convinced most of Narváez to switch sides. While Cortés was gone Alvarado attacked the Aztec warriors in Tenochtitlan. Later after…

Also, if this was the case the unbelieving natives could technically still worship these idols but would have to follow Spanish regulations to do so. Fourthly, native unbelievers “are not subject to the church or its competence and, therefore… idolaters cannot be punished by the church” because they “live outside her district and territory (de Las Casas 1992, 79).” In other…

environment that came before it. Long before Cortes landed on the coast in 1521 in search of gold and silver, the political system of Mexico was organized by Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs, Toltecs, Olmecs, and Mayans. By the time the Spanish arrived the Aztecs had a firm political grasp on most of the region. The Aztecs did not enforce absolute rule over their territories, nor were all the territories linked by common borders, the Aztecs simply expected the territories to pay…

States , a book in which the version of history told is from the losing and oppressed side. In a section of his book, he writes about the history of the early Spanish conquest and settlement in the Americas. This is a well-known part of history, except that in Zinn’s book, he tells the history from the views of the natives and a few Spanish who opposed these cruelties,…

The writing system by the Mayan had a distinct approach to the scholars. Deciphering the writing represents and values who the Maya people really were. The Mayan writing was acknowledge and known as the emblem graph. The emblem graph represented certain cities around Guatemala. Spaniards colonized a better understanding of the Maya people using the Hieroglyphs. They were able to categorize the cities and discover which group belonged to what city. They were able to identify which city was at…

importance of his existence. He felt as if he was assigned to keep his culture alive. To do so, he draws in his codex all that has occurred. Topiltzin than attempts to offer the codex to their sacred mother but the ceremony did not go as planned. The Spanish soon heard the ceremony occurring which lead them into witnessing the sacrifice. Given the Spaniards disapproval of the Aztecs cultural, they…

During their stay the Spaniards efficiently extorted good of gold and silver from the Aztecs, at one point cortez was able to persuade Montezuma to stay with them as the spanish guest, essentially becoming a prisoner to his own Gods. Due to this Montezuma's power over his people slowly diminished.In 1520 news of another Spanish Expedition made news to Cortez, the group of conquistadors were sent by the governor of Cuba Diego Velasquez, a rival of cortez, the objective of this group was to arrest…

defeat and conquer the entire Aztec Empire. His name was Hernan Cortez. He was a Spanish conquistador whose explorations and conquests led him to great fame. He was born in 1485 in Medellin, a town in Western Spain which is now known as the Castilian province of Extremadura. He was born into an aristocratic family who were fairly well-known due to the fact that his father, Martin Cortez de Monroy was an officer in the Spanish Army. His parents wished for Cortez to gain a higher education and…

Lope de Aguirre, a Spanish conquistador of the Basque region of Spain, wrote what is known as the “Letter to King Philip of Spain.” It was a letter written in July 1561 in Spanish America to King Philip (presumably private because it was addressed to the King himself from Aguirre.) At this time historically Lope de Aguirre had joined the expedition in search of El Dorado. Pedro de Ursúa had accompanied him on this voyage to the city of gold. However, not even a year after, Aguirre assisted in…

The Spanish, led by Francisco Pizzaro, conquered the Inca in Peru in 1532 (Chapter 13, Slide #4). The video describes that the Spanish used the Jacobus musket as part of its weaponry, which was slow firing and inaccurate, but nevertheless deadly (GGS 17:06-18:14). Another critical weapon in the Spanish arsenal was the Toledo sword. It was a long, hard, and pliable sword that was characteristic of rapiers (GGS 20:00-21:00). In the film, Jared Diamond explains that Europeans inherited metal…