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    the Spaniards would have been at a loss to try and feed themselves. The conquistadors were not very familiar with agricultural practices as they were aristocrats, not farmers. The native allies also provided Spaniards with materials so as to clean and repair their wounds. Infection in the sixteenth century was more harmful than the wound itself so these medicinal provisions were especially important. The Spanish conquistador, Bernal Diaz, says, “There we at once treated our wounds with oil and…

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    Since the first material regarding the Jesuit Relations has been published in the seventeenth century in France, it has given numerous worthy sources for researchers. These religious reports got widespread with the progress of the times for scholars in the 1890s because of national-scale seventy-three-volume publication. And then, multiple editors and translators gathered all the Relations to combine with other Jesuit resources. After that, they made that in public in multilinguistic format…

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    Hernan Cortes Thesis

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    group of natives called the Aztecs, or starting a new civilization, that question can only be answered by the great Hernan Cortes. Who is Hernan Cortes? Cortes is a famous spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico. Cortes’ voyage was one of the reasons Mexico has a spanish culture today. Cortes was born to be a conquistador after he dropped out of his school so he could learn how to fight. Hernan Cortes’ exploration led to the fall of the Aztec Empire, the claiming of Mexico for spain, and he…

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    or care about the utter genocide of the native populations. One man named Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar and historian, played a monumental role in bringing the knowledge of this destruction to Europe. After spending time among the conquistadors in the new world, Casas would return to Spain and begin writing to the emperor, Charles I of Spain, about the atrocities committed under the guise of conquest for the crown. Casas would push for the creation of laws that would stop the…

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    Few times in history do we get to have a detailed and in-depth look into a major historical event like we do with Bernal Diaz del Castillo “Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España” or “The True History of the Conquest of the New Spain.” Written by a foot soldier alongside Hernan Cortes, “True History,” allows us to get a front row view to what can be considered one of the most fundamental encounters between European travelers and New World natives. Notably, it is not written is…

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    Cabeza De Vaca Survival

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    A Conquistador No More There’s a rustle in the trees, and the area you are in has been known for savage cannibals, while mosquitoes cover your body in the swamp. You have little food and water; you are nauseous because of hunger, thirst, and lack of blood. In this difficult situation and more, Cabeza de Vaca, a famous conquistador, overcame these hardships, along with only 3 other people who all began with 400 other men, and walked for 21 months to Mexico City. He was the treasurer of a ship…

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    Planetary Perspectives (Pg. 1) The section points out that although the Earth has been a part of the universe for billions of years, the New World was only discovered 500 years ago. That is virtually nothing compared to the Earth. The American Republic has only been here for 239 years out of 4.6 billion. Key Terms American Republic - the United States Indirect Discoverers of The New World (Pg. 2) Although the Scandinavians landed in North America, it wasn 't until the Europeans landed there…

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    The film Even the Rain presents a clear parallel between the events of the Bolivian Water War and the days of Spanish colonialism. From Christopher Columbus to Bartolome de Las Casas, the ideas of those early Spanish Conquistadors can be seen in the neocolonialism of western companies and neoliberalism of the Bolivian Government during the water crisis. The filmmaker is trying to argue that history is repeating itself across Latin America, with the violence in Bolivia being the latest example of…

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    In fact, in 1527 the leader of the Incas, Huayna Capac, was killed, and set a heated broil between his sons and the Spanish Conquistadors ( Meinking 6). May 13, 1532, after the Spanish landed on the Coastal Tumbes, a beach northwest of Peru, they took one of Huayna sons as prisoner and executed him in a panic (Meinking 6). Consequently, after the thirty-six long year battle, historians…

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    Portuguese explorers took advantage of indigenous peoples or how they later treated them with violence and brutality. While the conquistadors themselves behaved this immorally, they knew that their people back home did not. Christianity was very prevalent back in these countries and they would be risking their lives by reporting their behavior without reason for it. The conquistadors claimed that these people were savages and needed to be Christianized. They had similar claims against the…

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