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    The Inhumane Treatment of Building American through the Eyes of the Natives. The Native American was concord by the Spaniard in 1492 which was guide by Christopher Columbus. His voyages began going to Asia but ended up in the Mexico. The Spanish accidently discover the Aztec Empire. Once the Spaniard came to the realization that the technology and architect was more unconventional than anything they ever expected. Cortez order the conquistador to use forces and weapons against the Native American. Many of the maritime weapons was guns, cannons horses’ things of this sort was never seen before. The Spaniard used violence as a part of control and to oppress the Native American Indians. The Imperialism thread and comment acts of terrorism through the mass murder of the people. Native American was slaughtered and beheaded. The violence was depicted as a source of fear to control the attitudes of the Native American, The Spanish political goals were to take over the county and report back to the European Empire all of the riches that was present in the land. Cortez saw the territorial to be a great opportunity for potential capitalism and growth not only for Spain, but for himself. (Elliott p.3). Colonization began in the American so that European could start bring in some source of revenue. Feudal wars were taking toll on the economic and human lose all throughout Europe. Spain and England needed to find economic growth because the funds that they…

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    Harvest Of Empire Summary

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    He spoke and debated with the best spanish philosophers and eventually he led to Spain 's adoption of the “new laws” in 1542 which helped in making Amerindians free and equal subjects of the spanish crown. Sadly the rich landowners did not listen and kept the natives as slaves anyways. Murder was not the only horrible thing the Spaniards have done, through their eyes having children with the natives and converting them were two of the same thing mixing with them and creating new people. One…

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    Cortes Smallpox

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    If the Natives had been immune to smallpox, I think they would have still been conquered by the Spaniards. The Aztecs and Incas were two empires. The Aztecs were roughly 15 million people in Mexico. They would make sacrifices to their god of war and sun who drank human blood. They also had another god that lived among the Aztecs who had left. He said he would come back in the year of One Reed. When the year of One Reed arrived, Hernan Cortes landed on Aztec land searching for gold, glory, and…

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    wake of the conquest and in the wake of the partial collapse of indigenous institutions (Maccormack 445). The missionaries that came to Peru, conclude that conversion by persuasion without the use of force would not work among the Andeans. Missionaries and indigenous priests thus confronted each other in an explicit combat for the allegiance if the Indians. The missionaries believed that the devil or demons were ubiquitous in the Andes. So missionaries convinced themselves that demons held…

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    HIST 100 Summary

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    1. What was this movie about? How did it relate to other material in this module? Did you know about this topic prior to learning about it in HIST 100? This video is about the Spanish invasion and colonization of Mexico. The main focus was on Cortes and his battle against the Aztec people. This video gave further detailed on the battle tactics that Cortes on the Aztec empire to becoming the ruler of Mexico. In the textbook, similarly, the Native Americans did suffer a similar type of tactical…

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    Colonial Spanish America was a racially and ethnically stratified hierarchy because of the Casta system. The distinctions were between the ‘races’ and ‘ethnicities’ of Spaniards, Creoles, Blacks, and Native Americans with multiple mixtures of these races creating mestizos, and mulatos among others. This racial and ethnic hierarchy was maintained and perpetuated by the Casta system. The Casta system does not turn one race or ethnicity against another, instead it sub-groups people within a race or…

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    about the treatment of his people. His’s letter was intended to let the King know that the Indigenous population should take charge of their own people. Guaman Poma de Ayala included his perspective of how he witness the exploitation of his people (Latin Colonial America, p.83). Like Siquenza y Gongora, he viewed the Mestizo in a negative manner. Guaman Poma de Ayala described the Mestizo as a “stain” to society (Latin Colonila America, p.90). As a Nobleman Guaman Poma de Ayala was outraged…

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    analyzing the book called “The disappearing Mestizo” by the author Joanne Rappaport. The structure of the book, each chapter follow to narrate the stories of sixteenth and seventeenth century mestizos and mulattos. Actually, Joanne Rappaport is a professor of Spanish and Race and Mestizaje at Georgetown University. She tries to examine with this book what it meant to be mestizo in the early colonial era. In general, the central question is not “Who is a mestizo?” or “What is a mestizo?”. This…

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    canned goods that are sold in Philippine stores in Bangkok or in groceries in the Philippines whenever her mother or father visits their passport country. She also said that she likes attending gatherings of Filipinos in Thailand like birthday parties or Christmas parties. At the same time, she said she feels awkward most of the time especially if she only knows a few of the people she meets in the party. Like his sister, Paulo also likes eating snacks and other food from his passport country.…

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    The Dark Body

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    The bias society we live in often finds it necessary to hide the truth in order to maintain possession of a certain group. In the articles, “Hyper-sexuality of the Dark Body” by Siobhan Brooks and “We Don’t Sleep around like White Girls Do” by Yen Le Espiritu, the author exemplifies the theme of sexual oppression and how that has ruined the reputations and lives of colored women. The authors have taken their perspectives into account to show how much of a damage society has put them through.…

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