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All about the mexican culture Jordyn Sickler   Table of contents Introduction 2 Climate 3 Food 4 Holidays 5 Conclusion 6 bibliography…

Their territory spanned parts of the Gulf Coast, including Veracruz, Tabasco and northern Central America. The Olmeca domesticated maize and other crops, and introduced the art and practice of pottery, which served importantly as a means to store food. Their society, developing further, was very patriarchal, and the Olmeca were known to construct large…

In Genoa a wool-weaver gave birth to a little boy in 1451, who was designed to change the path of history. He wanted to find a route to westward, but instead found a ''New World''. America would not be the same if it was not for Christopher Columbus. When Columbus was born is not certainty. He was born between the months of, August 25 or October 31. His family name was Cristoforo Colombo, but in English his name is Christopher Columbus. Out of five children, Christopher was the oldest.…

In 1492 Christopher Columbus set out on a voyage with three ships, The Santa Maria, The Pinta, and The Niña. Columbus was searching for a better and shorter route to India for trade and riches, but he unintentionally found new lands. Christopher Columbus was born in 1451. He first went to sea at the age of fourteen, and shipwrecked near the Portuguese coast in 1476. In 1492 Columbus got permission from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to act as patrons. Many times prior to finally…

civilization in Mexico. This theory proved to be true according to research done by Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. In their findings They compared mitochondrial DNA from Asian and European dogs, ancient archaeological samples from the Americas and certain American dog breeds ( History and Origin of the Chihuahua Dog Breed). One of the breeds they tested was the chihuahua and after further research they were able to prove that the Chihuahua does share a DNA type unique to the…

of North America. Central and South America was where the majority of Spanish settlements were found. Many people left Spain in search of a new beginning. Originally, many conquistadors travelled to the New World to conquer and convert Native Americans to Catholicism. Eventually, this drew hundreds of thousands of people to America in search of spreading their religion, and re-creating their lives. Settlements began to develop, and more and more people came to Central and South America. As a…

his transformation and modernization of America. Columbus is also a hero for bringing government into America. Christopher Columbus set foot in America in 1492. Native Americans had discovered America but some authorities and assets give Columbus the credit for the founding of the foundation. Christopher was claimed to have made America’s population a more modern civilization. Columbus began to create the exchange of the ideas, laws, and the beliefs of America. After the transformation and…

discovered. This time Christopher didn’t sail the seven seas to find South America and Brazil. This time it was a Portuguese explorer who discovered Brazil. This Portuguese explorer was called Pedro Alvares. Pedro wasn’t trying to look for new land, he was simply trying to go for India. On his way heading west, like any explorer, he ended up on one of the coasts of South America. Now this isn’t just any coast of South America, he landed on the coast of Brazil. When he got there, as a European…

A Game of Risk On March 13, 1456, when Pope Callitxus the Third issued the papal bull of Inter Caetera to Portugal. This issue reinstated the two earlier bulls of Dum Diversas and Romanus Pontifex which recognized Portugal's rights to territories it had discovered along the West African coast as well as the enslavement of infidels and non-Christians captured there. So what does this really mean to the explorers who will forever be altering the course of history for the Indigenous peoples?…

When you first hear about Christopher Columbus, it's usually when your in about 2nd grade. You learn that he came over from Spain and came to America thinking it was infact India. Then, you seem to think that he is an extraordinary explorer and navigator, yet you don’t really go into the deep details about his voyage and what went on when he came to the New World. It seems as if the older you get, or the higher classes of US History you take, the more you learn about Christopher Columbus’s…