Hernán Cortés

Mariachi music was always present in my life. Since I can remember, my family would always support my uncle’s performances since he was in a Mariachi group. My father would cry listening to Vicente Fernandez sing “Por Tu Maldito Amor.” My husband sent me serenata as an anniversary gift. In the beginning, I hated Mariachi music. However, as I grew older, I began to admire Mariachi music and actually began to be interested in discovering the culture and the history of Mariachi music. Mariachi…

Indies. In 1511 he sailed to Panama towards Santo Domingo when his ship was caught in a storm and he shipwrecked off of the Yucatan Peninsula. Local Maya Indians, with whom Aguilar lived until 1519, captured him after his shipwreck. The in 1519, Hernan Cortes rescued him. However, following his return to Spanish society, Aguilar was offered European food, but, to the surprise of his rescuers, he ate only sparingly. When asked why he was so moderate that the explained that after so much time he…

2003). In addition to Columbus claiming lands for Spain, there were also the Conquistadors. Like Columbus, the Conquistadors’ expeditions took place very close to the birth of the Spanish empire. An example of one of these expeditions was that of Hernán Cortés who, in 1519, travelled to Cuba to the mainland in present-day Mexico (Minster, 2016) in order to lay claim to it for Spain. He eventually succeeded in 1521, despite the Spanish…

Mexico is a nation found in North America, sharing a northern border with the United States and a southern one with Belize and Guatemala. To the west lies the Pacific Ocean and to the east is the Gulf of Mexico. The country is part of the Northern and Western Hemispheres. As a federal republic, it is also officially known as the United Mexican States much like the United States of America. As a one of the largest nations in the world, Mexico is almost three times the size of Texas;…

level. This rise of importance leads to feelings of superiority and unrestrained power. The desire for power often leads to extreme narcissism, destructive behavior, and killer instincts. Historically, conquerors such as Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, and Julius Caesar disregarded morality to push borders and claim new lands. Serial killers also lack human compassion, disconnecting and elevating them above common people. H.H. Holmes from Devil in the White City was…

As if this discrimination against African Americans was not bad enough, there are many other races that, throughout the history of America, have been discriminated upon. One of the most important being the Native Americans, which people today never seem to discuss. This discrimination, first originated, when Spain first began their colonization of America. When the first Spanish explorers came to America, they found the Native Americans were sitting on a huge amount of natural resources but…

In 1492, an explorer by the name of Christopher Columbus landed on the Canary Islands off the coast of the North American continent, and ran into the indigenous people, the “Indians”, who lived there. His discoveries of this new continent, and the lust for natural resources such as gold that were spotted on the people that lived there led to an abundance of European conquistadors, Spanish for conquerors, coming to the Americas in order to pillage the land for its exquisite and valuable…

eventually became defined as property. Even though the overall economy of the European grew, it came at a cost of racism, dehumanization, and destruction of Native American culture. 4 key terms: Native Americans, Francisco Pizarro, encomienda system, Hernán Cortés The encomienda system exploited Native Americans by forcing them to work for them in a cruel…

one we know today and this is based on the influence of the time period. However, the Aztec legend derived in the 1500s the era of the New World, La Llorona was attributed to an actual living figure of that time period, La Malinche, the consort of Hernán…

The Marvels of Spain- And America As expressed in Wayne Franklin’s “The Beginnings of 1700” chapter, “The Marvels of Spain- And America” Franklin, regards the changes in the the New World as the Europeans, namely Christopher Columbus in the year 1492, colonize and, “the Indians soon had a colonial imitation of Europe developing before their eyes, complete with fortresses, churches, houses, new foods,” and more (4). Just as Spaniards were in awe of the, “trees of a thousand kinds” and “birds…