S. N. Goenka

The Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century has been one of their most renowned victories. However, with a review of Restall’s work, as well as a closer look into the help that the Spanish had, reveals that the success of the Spanish was not merely their own. The Spaniards’ and natives’ common political goals, the natives’ army strength, knowledge of the land and the sharing of battle strategies and resources made the native allies a key asset to the conquest. The success of the…

1. What was this movie about? How did it relate to other material in this module? Did you know about this topic prior to learning about it in HIST 100? This video is about the Spanish invasion and colonization of Mexico. The main focus was on Cortes and his battle against the Aztec people. This video gave further detailed on the battle tactics that Cortes on the Aztec empire to becoming the ruler of Mexico. In the textbook, similarly, the Native Americans did suffer a similar type of tactical…

Depictions of colonization efforts by European powers during the 15th and 16th centuries tend to be either oversimplified or subject to generalization. Different explorers from different countries had varying experiences with regards to interactions with Native Americans and varying degrees of success in establishing permanent and/or profitable settlements. Oversimplification can be demonstrated by ideas such as the pristine myth and the Native Americans acting as noble savages. Asserting that…

The Aztecs In this essay i will be writing about the Aztec and mayan tribes and their similarities and differences.The aztecs were located in central mexico and the mayans were located in the yucatan peninsula.To start off by saying both the aztecs and the mayan have many similarities and differences.For one they both had a calendar of 365 days based on the sun’s movement.The aztecs originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico and arrived in mesoamerica in the 13th century. The aztecs…

1. The work of art is named The Two Fridas and was created by Frida Kahlo. It is located in the Museo de Arte Moderno, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City. The style of this piece is a naïve surrealist double self-portrait. The size of this piece is 5 feet and 8 and ½ inches by 5 feet and 8 and ½ inches or 1.74 meters by 1.74 meters. The medium used to create this piece was oil on canvas. This piece was created in 1939. Frida Kahlo was born July 6, 1907 as Magdalena Carmen Frida…

“The ‘Wretched Indians’: What We Don’t Learn in History Books” The Spanish Conquest as we know it has been largely painted as a valiant and remarkable achievement deemed justifiable through widely-accepted perceptions of European superiority. Indeed, when taught about these expeditions, rarely are we given sources that encourage us to picture the Indigenous peoples fighting on the same side as the Spaniards; After all, the textbooks say they were the ‘bad guys’ to beat, right? Matthew…

1. The sculpture the Goddess Coatlicue is around 8 feet 6 inches, or 2.65 meters. The piece was made circa 1500 by the Aztecs in Mexico. It is located in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. 2. There is only one being depicted in the statue. The statue shows someone with a necklace made up of what appears to be hands, hearts and skulls from humans. Under the necklace appear to be human breasts. The skirt on the statue is made up of snakes that are overlapping. The feet and hands…

Objectives Objective 1: Develop a cell line expressing the duck viperin. In order to develop an avian model that is able to express the duck viperin with an advantage of stable and homogeneous expression, duck viperin with and without the C-terminal V5 tag was previously cloned into the mammalian expression vector pcDNA3.1/Hygro+. Then, with the use of lipofectamine 2000, I stably transfected an empty vector and duck viperin tagged or untagged into DF-1 cells. In order to get a monoclonal…

For my service project I did two types of volunteering. One was being the president of Kilmer's Student Council Association (SCA). In SCA, a group of seventh and eighth grade students, including myself, got together about every other week, for an hour, to discuss, plan, and promote student events. Some of these events included student dances, holiday/seasonal games at lunch, fun runs, fundraisers and Kilmer Spirit Week. First, we would discuss what materials and how much time we would need to…

In 1519, Spanish explorers, under the leadership of Hernán Cortés, set foot on what is now modern-day Mexico in search of gold and land in the Aztec Empire. Although the Spanish initially had no intentions (or orders from Cuban governor Diego Velásquez for whom they made the voyage) to colonize the Aztec Empire, they sought to communicate with the inhabitants and spread their Christian faith. However, the end of 1521 saw the mighty Aztec Empire practically cease to exist, its emperor Montezuma…