Simón Bolívar

Ancient times involved many trade networks that helped establish the global economy. One of these trade networks was the Silk Road, the Han Dynasty of China helped form the Silk Road. The Silk Road connected the ancient world and helped spread global economy. The Silk Road was multiple routes from east to west. The routes were used commonly around 130 BCE, then the Han Empire expanded trade west, in 1453 CE the Ottoman Empire avoided trade with any body west and the Ottomans captured…

The Enlightenment period occurred during the eighteenth through nineteenth century all throughout Europe and the Americas. Many were starting to question society and compose ideals that suited their beliefs in the world. In France, England, and most of the countries involved in the Enlightenment period, there were revolutions in order to gain rights and change their government. Natural rights, founded by John Locke, was one of the most useful and important ideals brought up and followed during…

Latin American Revolution By: Prabjot Singh, Dericka Rickenbacker, Florence Allison, and Brandon Prophete Aim: How did the Latin American Revolution occur? Objective:Students will be able to explain what led to the Latin American Revolution. Standards:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2 Do Now: What would you start a revolution for and why? Exit Question: Reflect on what you learned about Latin America and it's people. Vocabulary Congress of Vienna- it was convened by the four European powers which…

On August 6, 1824, she was with Bolívar at the Battle of Junín, where she served in the cavalry and was promoted to captain. Later, she would also aid the rebel army at the Battle of Ayacucho. at this time, she was promoted to Colonel on the suggestion of General Sucre himself, Bolívar's…

almost all colonies patriots launched an armed struggle. The strongest was the revolutionary enthusiasm of New Granada and La Plata. The war started between Spanish troops and Creole troops civil. An important figure in these struggles became Simon Bolivar, who became the most prominent…

The colonization of Latin America by European countries brought chaos to the country. The settlers slaughtered millions of slaves, both indigenous Indians and African slaves. Colonization did, however, have another effect; because the settlers used a centralized government to control their territory, they inadvertently united the people in the land which who previously part of autonomous tribes. This may have helped advance civilization in Latin America, but it was not optimal for continued…

The beautful, exotic, South American countries we know to day were not the same as they are today. They were manipulated under the control of Spain. These countries of Latin America desired their independence, but they were silently wondering how to escape Spain, however they did not have to wait for long. There were external events that had a particularily strong impact on political thought in Latin America. The American Revolution, The French Revolution, the slave rebellions in Hati, and the…

openly chastising the United States are two examples of Chavez’s rhetorical populism. Chavez studied at the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences and there he learned about socialist leader Simon Bolivar (Hawkins, 2007). Many of Chavez’s policies and political theories are attributed to his idolization of Bolivar. This affected his populism by extending to the economically distressed and giving them a beacon of socialism to counter prior leaders. Finally, to strengthen his bases, Chavez…

Q6: I think the one thing that was mainly different about the South American Revolution and the Mexican Revolution was that in the South American Revolution, the peninsulares and the Creoles were the leaders in the army for South America. In the Spanish Revolution, the lower class people were the leaders in the armies. In the Spanish government they had different social classes. At the top of the Spanish-American government and Society where the peninsulares who are people that had been…

Simon Bolivar’s last words were, “How will I ever escape this labyrinth?” What ‘labyrinth’ was Bolivar talking about? Life? Death? No, I believe that the labyrinth is suffering. In John Green’s novel, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter lived a mundane life in his Florida home, but one day he decides to go in search for the ‘great perhaps’ in Culver Creek. At Culver Creek, Miles expects that he’ll have the time of his life, however, Miles and his gang end up learning more about their lives and how…