La Malinche

In the play, Sacajawea the Indian Princess, Clark, one of the explorers, asks Sacagawea:" then will you Sacajawea, go to pilot us through your country, to show us the river of the sun?"(1.14). He explains that they will not pay for this: "Everyone must give part of himself to the land of which he enjoys the freedom" (Sacajawea 1.14). This sentence that Clark utters is supposed to be for the audience to prove how willing was Sacagawea to help the new explorers. Wolfrom, here, asserts The Indian…

funded and equipped a three- ship fleet. The primary objective was to led an expedition to capture Indians and be sold as slaves in Cuba. Governor Velazquez in part of the slave trade funded one ship in return for the slave labor. The island of Las Mujeres was discovered off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. It is said that at this point a large city with many towers and buildings could be seen from the coastal landing and this report was sent back to the Spanish crown. In landing at the…

The historic city of Tenochtitlán, the heart of the Aztec Empire, is comparable to today’s New York City. It was the biggest city in all of Mesoamerica at its height in the 16th century boasting over 200,000 inhabitants. Yet in just a matter of years, the entire city as well as the whole Aztec Empire fell into ruin. How did such an impressive empire fall? The answer is a combination of factors. The Aztec Empire collapsed due to the lack of resources within the capital city of Tenochtitlán and…