Explorer

To understand what exactly led to the eventual fighting between the Native Americans and European settlers, one must first learn the cultural differences between them. While, some Native American’s learned to “coexist” with new foreign settlers trading and interacting with them, other natives did not like these invaders and were eventually destroyed, usually by force. These new Europeans tried to bring their new way of life to the natives while these people just wanted to maintain their…

enmity for the Snoqualmie, fortunately the Europeans managed to kill a good number of the American Indians who had no immunity. Some of the diseases they brought include smallpox, measles chicken pox and influenza. Through direct contact with the explorers, the diseases were transmitted from the Europeans to the Indians who later transmitted the diseases to one another as they traded. The impact of the contact with the Europeans was so bad that all members of a particular village died (Joe,…

First off, the Navajo and Spanish used to be friends. The Spanish explored the land of the Navajo, they encountered each other became allies, the exchanged good with each other, and it ended into great conflict. They disagreed and fought to who won. They wanted the good land, isn’t that why the Spanish came to that land? Riches and more riches. They also thought they could make allies and more “friends” in the world. The more they stayed the more they fought. They Navajo seemed more peaceful and…

up this story make me feel interesting and mysterious. Gold Mountain was considered as the “United States” to many Chinese individuals. This alone sets the tone of the story in my opinion. In the short story “On Discovery,” Tang Ao was a Chinese explorer trying to make his way to this luscious place. Like everybody, he dreamed of trying to get to Gold Mountain. The reason why many at this time was trying to come here was because of the huge amount of gold that it provided. However, Tang Ao…

around the world in 1522. He was a Spanish explorer that sailed from 1519-1522. He enlisted under the Spanish King Manuel, and set forth his project for a trip around the world. The expedition set sail August 10, 1519. Magellan was killed in April 1521 in the Philippines, but they had already reached the eastern edge of the known world, and his men completed the voyage to Spain. The voyage proved that the earth is round. Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer. He was actually the third person…

exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. At the speech he was announcing at Congress, he was feeling all the pressure because we were trailing this “Space Race” for most of the time. By the time we sent the Explorer I up into space, the Soviet Union had already launched their Sputnik I and II up into…

Christopher Columbus was an explorer. Christopher was born on October 31, 1451, Columbus died on May 20, 1506. He was born in Genoa, Italy. Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain, In 1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502. He sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, He made a total of four trips to the Caribbean and South America during the years 1492-1504. Before Christopher Columbus was an explorer, a theory is that Christopher may have been Jewish and people who were jewish…

He was not a good man. I will be explaining in my paragraphs why it shouldn't be celebrated. My first reason is, he is a bad person. Why? Columbus has arisen over The validity of honoring as The explorer hero. Through the effects were widespread and cannot all be dismissed as negative, critics of Columbus have asserted that the worst aspects of this exchange added up to biological warfare. This means he don’t bad stuff which means that he…

The best example is the island of Carib, which the word cannibalism, is derived. This was mistaken on the part of explorers, but unknowingly people continued to tell this tale. Caliban’s name is derived from the words “Carib” and “cannibal”. This demonstrates how Shakespeare aims to make Caliban viewed. Shakespeare wants to barbarize Caliban. Up to this point, the audience…

In spite of the fact that both Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” and “Part 1: The World Before 1492: Contact and Exploration - 1491-1607” both explore the same time period, the two works greatly differ in the aspect of the message they convey to the reader. This is seen through observation of the difference between the largely personal level from which Zinn describes the causes and effects of European exploration and the broader and more general view from which “Part 1: The…