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While presenting a lecture on the “Danger of a Single Story” in a 2009 Ted Talk in London England, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie remarked that if a people are shown as one thing, over and over again, that is what they become. For centuries the conquest of Mexico and the fall of the Aztec empire has been a single story told through only European accounts. In The Broken Spears Miguel León-Portilla provides an account of the first arrival of European colonizers through a collection of codices authored…

In Defense of the Indians was written by Bartolomé de las Casaś. Around the time he wrote this excerpt, Spaniards like King Charles of Spain wanted to increase their wealth by going to the New World which was said to have abundances of good and unknown resources. Now those of Catholic faith saw fault in these prospects which would include the disturbance and corruption of the ideals natives held. People of Spain saw the Indians a savage, barbaric, incapable to learn and evolve among the…

Bolivia is a beautiful multiethnic and democratic country in the middle of South America. The official capital city of Bolivia is Sucre. Another capital they used is La Paz, located in the west-central part of the country. It is landlocked borders or neighbors with Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. Bolivia is sometimes referred to as the Tibet of Americas. It is one of the most remote countries in the Western hemisphere. Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar, an independence fighter…

Culture differences How do cultural differences help us understand how Christopher Columbus and Zheng He described their encounters with unfamiliar societies? This is an easy question. Both of these men were from different places but both of them acted in similar ways. They saw what was valuable and pleasing to them that the natives had no interest in. They took over the foreign land for both divinity and for their leaders. Beyond that these two people knew they were superior to the natives of…

Imagine waking up on a ship filled with salty sea dogs being possibly sea sick or just plain starving; this is what the European settlers went through. They went across the ocean just so they could just own a another chunk of monopoly in the New World. They went through tough times for this chunk of monopoly and why for power or to be the one with the most land. They came for many reasons and these reasons will include gold land and materials. From how they settled, to where they went, and their…

Choctaw Culture Assignment Kylee Carpenter, Danyelle Gray, Amy Russell and Christopher Willis Carl Albert State College December 3, 2015 Before the arrival of European ships, settlers and soldiers in the sixteenth century, the Choctaws flourished in southeastern North America, mainly in Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. They were an ancient people who farmed, crafted, traded with neighbors near and far and built great ceremonial centers. The forces that brought together Native…

The Tale of the Innocent Natives According to Bartolome De Las Casas, a priest and a retired spanish soldier, the Old world (Europe and Asia) was drastically different to the New world (North and South America). The New world was non polluted peaceful and the natives were friendly and giving. However, havoc and chaos proceeded the peaceful natives of the New world with the arrival of Columbus in 1492. All the native people ever did was treat the Spaniard better than royalty. The natives treated…

Americas – Period 2 consist of North America and Latin America 600-600 CE. Many changes happened whether they were political, economic, or social. Changes over time for North America included trade expansion, tribal government, and agriculture. For South America changes were in the pyramids, Mayan astronomy, and village organization. North America's change in trade expansion and continuity in village life, nomadism, polytheism, and shamanism. Latin America's change in Pyramids, ceremonial…

An independence movement is when a group of people unite and combine their efforts to advocate for freedom. America and Latin America gained independence from their mother countries because of these independence movements. There were however, discreet differences between the causes of the American and Latin American Revolutions. Factors such as the way the colonies were established, the geography of the land, and the Enlightenment can cause a revolution. Britain and Spain established colonies…

The choice of animals in the tale of Hummingbird and Fly is interesting. Buzzards are known to be like hawks, vultures, and falcons. They are scavengers and they consume the things they scavenge, which separates them from animals that decompose dead organisms. It is not like they are breaking down dead bodies so that the nutrients can go back into the earth, they are eating these dead organisms for their own needs. The buzzards are meant to represent the Europeans who came to the Americas and…