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Western Hemisphere (history.com). The government of Haiti stated that the earthquake left approximately more than 316,000 dead or missing, 300,000 injured, and over 1.3 million homeless (history.com). Haiti takes up one third of the island of Hispaniola, and is located on the Northeast Caribbean with Puerto Rico to the East and Jamaica and Cuba to the West. Before the earthquake Haiti had a population of approximately 9.6 million. Before the earthquake Haiti had seen four…

Genocide of the Indies as Described by Las Casas A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, was written by Bartolome de las Casas to attempt to stop the genocide that was being committed to the natives by his people. The book shares many episodes of acts of genocide. These acts correspond with the definition of the United Nations definition of genocide by as the U.N. themselves list the acts of, “…Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;…

Haiti is a Caribbean country that is found in the island of Hispaniola. It has a population of 10.6 million people. Its main languages are French and Creole. The Haitian Revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1804. The main religions found in Haiti are Voodoo and Roman Catholicism. Voodoo is a religion that is a modified form of Catholicism and they worshipped the black God. It has combinations of African beliefs with Catholicism. A few people practice both religions. People referred to…

bridge during the Ice Age. Christopher Columbus came in 1492 and in 1493 he came back and took everything, as said in the text “Columbus proved to be a better explorer than governor.” They even said that during his third expedition the people in Hispaniola complained of his harsh rule. He also wasn’t even the first European to make a settlement in Americas, Leif Ericson was the first European to land in North America before Christopher…

“How Equality Changed The World” Patrick Kelly Laguna Beach High School How Equality Changed The World The Enlightenment was a philosophical awakening that took place in Europe during the 18 and 17th century, at its origin in Europe the Enlightenment gave citizens stuck in unfair systems of government new ways to think. As History.com once said ,(2016), “Participants thought they were illuminating human intellect and culture after the “dark” middle ages.” (p. 2). Ideals…

Hernan Cortes was born in 1485-1547 in Medlin Spain. He was a military leader in 1521 Hernando Cortes dad Martin Cotes was a officer at the army. His parents wanted Hernan to be a lawyer so at age 14 years Hernan Cortes went to the university of Salamanca for a while then he failed his test as a lawyer and dropped out at age 19 he went with Diego Velazquez to a journey to Cuba and around 1518 Cortes put in charge on a journey to Mexico. Cortes fought in the war in 1521 hernando discovered baja…

Indentured workers were always available, and indenture practice never halted, the practice only diminished when slavery became available and more profitable to business. Indenture work was a solution established to bring labors to British colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although initially all the servants came from England, throughout the colonial period migrants from other countries joined the flow of servants to British America; Scottish, Irish, and German immigrants…

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451. He was a Roman Catholic and wanted to spread Christianity on his travels. He had two children Diego & Fernando. He was a maritime explorer who undertook 4 voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. He need someone to support his voyage, first he went to the king of Portugal, however he refused, as he was more interested in finding a route to Asia via Africa. He then went to Spain and after a long wait, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella agreed to…

the Caribbean sharing boarders with only one country, the Dominican Republic (Where is Haiti?, 2015). Located in the Caribbean Haiti is a small island underneath the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic and Haiti share a small island called Hispaniola that has only made the tension between these two countries larger (Where is Haiti?,…

Francisco Pizarro was born in 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. He died in 1541. Pizarro represented the country of Spain. He explored from 1510-1541. Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador. His goal was to explore, conquer, and accumulate wealth in the New World for Spain. Pizarro came from a poor family. He didn’t receive a good education, and he never learned to read or write. He began working at a young age as a swineherd. This is someone who raises and takes care of pigs. As a teenager Pizarro…