Beggars in Spain

So like we have to understand there was about a quarter of the amount of spaniards as there were Aztecs. Yeah so the Spaniards were more technologically advanced and ish like they had more, well they had guns, which the Aztecs didn’t… then they also had trained animals such as horses and dogs, and again the aztecs didn’t… Also the spaniards had big ass ships. All of these three weapons scared the Aztecs, adding the element of fear and surprise. They also hit the fucking jackpot when it came to…

plague was caused by Jews contaminating the wells. This belief led to many pogroms occurring across Europe, such as in Strasbourg and Dresden. By the 1400’s, anti-Semitism continued to spread across Europe, and became commonplace in Spain by 1475. The newly united Spain wanted to make Christianity Spain’s only religion, and with the help of Pope Sixtus, they started the Spanish inquisition. At the start, Jews were either put into ghettos and forced to wear badges (like the holocaust), or…

The topic of my paper is on immigration, more specifically the right to immigrate. In his paper, Michael Huemer presents the following argument; 1. Individuals have a prima facie right to immigrate (that is, a right not to be prevented from immigrating). This is because: a. Individuals have a prima facie right to be free from harmful coercion. b. Immigration restrictions are harmful and coercive. 2. The prima facie right to immigrate is not overridden. In particular: a…

More than a quarter of my lineage can be traced to Russia in Eastern Europe. Life in Russia between 1860 and 1880 was extremely challenging. During this time people experienced severe widespread disease from the highly contagious cholera. This disease was due to food and water being contaminated by fecal matter from lack of proper sanitation equipment. The disease was spread by contaminated water and was responsible for thousands of deaths of people that experienced severe diarrhea and…

Emigration means leaving one country and moving to another. And i’m going to write about the Swedish emigration to the US. The immigration to the United States started in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 1.3 million swedes emigrated to the united states. Iit was mixed with women and men who was young and healthy, they emigrated due to the economic and social circumstances in sweden and moving provided the swedish emigrants with economic opportunity that they didn't have in the…

1. When beginning this journal, I initially thought Nativism referred to the Native American Indians that were the first inhabitants of America. The definition of nativism is a word that makes reference to a policy that is set to conserve or protect the wellbeing and interest of a native population within a country. So I figured I was on the right track, right? Wrong. The real context of the word “nativism” skips over the Indian reference and goes right to when Columbus discovered America. Thus…

Map is an important thing in our daily life today. We can not only using maps to figure out where the place is, but also just like the professor said in the video “it’s an amazing way to figuring out the history” . I do agree this statement because before Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world, people do not realize that Earth is a ball not flat. When people read the map, then they can learn the history of the “Age of Discovery” in the 16th cemetery. Maps may be very different at the…

He wrote in his journal "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased.” (James W. Lowen, Source 1) Before leaving, Columbus kidnapped ten to twenty-five natives and took them back to Spain on his first voyage, which caused a stir, so Queen Isabella, and King Ferdinand supplied them with seventeen ships, 1,200 to 1,500 men, and weapons for a second voyage. When they returned to Haiti in 1493, he demanded them to give food, gold, cotton…

Two continents named after one explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. His travels are not well known compared to Columbus, but they were more integral to the discovering of America. Vespucci writes a letter to Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence, depicting his travels to the New World on his first of four voyages. The letter describes the encounters with the natives as well as the different types of animals they saw. Involvements in battles and celebrations throughout his exploration of…

Nautical voyages conducted and captained by men such as James Cook, Charles Darwin and John Ross were some of the main driving forces that helped the scientific community to map and geographically understand the world as we see it today. One explorer in particular, James Clark Ross, and his southern artic expedition of 1839 resulted in the charting of much of the continents coastline as well as the southern seas. All of the great voyages during this time period held their own discoveries and…