Conquistador

discovering, as the natives didn’t feel invaded at the time. However, this can also be interpreted differently, to show that the natives offered the gifts and valuables as a show of fear. The view of discovery is supported by the European ego of conquistador, missionary or merchant. According to the Europeans, the natives were not enlightened as they were due to their different ways of life, which included idolatry, devilish ceremonies, and sacrifices. In the Europeans’ perspective, the previous…

Tourism is one of the largest growing industries in the world due to globalization. The term tourism was first coined by Thomas Cook to explain travel by the European Railway, which marked the beginning of modern tourism. Travel has become an easily accessible and relatively affordable mode of transportation for the sole purpose of recreation and entertainment. Using the lens of anthropology, numerous ethnographers have addressed questions regarding our global state. In the plethora of new…

The 1981 film Raiders of The Lost Ark (Paramount 1981) shows Indiana Jones on the search for the Ark of the Covenant. However, the Ark of the Covenant has been around much longer than 1981. According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant has been in existence since the time of Moses and the Israelites' exodus of Egypt. The Bible further explains the Ark was created according to instructions given to Moses by God. After its completion, the Ark was carried by its staves in advance of the people or…

agricultural purposes. The lands were fertile so they found it in their best interests to settle there. They remained there largely undisturbed by foreign powers until the turn of the 16th century. In the 16th century, Chile was invaded by the Spanish Conquistadors. This was the first influence of…

During the 14th century, a civilization known as the Incas began to flourish in what is now Peru. They were one of the many small groups who resided in the Andes Mountains of South America, but had wanted to expand their tribe, both in terms of it’s population and territory. In the 15th century, they had absorbed most of the surrounding tribes, at first peaceably and later, when they met resistance, by subjugation. At around 1438, the Incas had gained a new, strong king, Pachacuti, who had…

Globalization is the process by which everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. This process has been in progress through the early days of history where explorers such as Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus developed world relations through trade, exchanging both knowledge and goods. This process has become far easier and accessible through the invention of the Internet, where people can exchange knowledge and ideas right from…

At the start of the 17th century England, Spain, and France all had permanent settlements located in North America. Since the continent was vast and plentiful, there was an inevitable struggle for land between the European countries. Regardless of the uniform religion Christianity, the ideals and goals of the three nations greatly varied. The Spanish, English, and French settlements became increasingly diverse as a result of separate geographical regions and different colonization purposes,…

In Professor McDonald’s book, Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves, I focused on the chapter “Utopian Dreamers and Colonial Disasters”. This chapter first starts off with the mention of England and the East Indies Trade Company then moves on to talk about the first voyages to Madagascar and the disasters from settling and efforts on colonizing the foreign island then concluding on the story of Captain Johnson and the introduction to pirates in Madagascar. Professor McDonald primarily targets…

course of approximately two hundred years. Human sacrifice was a principle idea in the culture of the Aztec civilization. Evidence of human sacrifice shows that roughly one percent of the population is sacrificed annually. However, as Spanish conquistadors ended the civilization in 1521 AD, the Aztecs' sacrificial tradition was…

Starting even before the founding of the United States of America, the events that have transpired from the late 1500s within these lands have greatly impacted the lives lived today. From the invasion by the Europeans, decimation of Native American populations, creation of a new nation, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, John Smith’s capitalism, the US Constitution, and other numerous events, every action upon this soil has in one form or another created the conditions for the chance at life,…