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In their documentary called " The Devil 's mine" , Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani portrait the mining near the city of Potosí. By a perspective of Basilio Vargas, a fourteen-year-old Bolivian boy who work in one of the Cerro Rico 's mines, the directors show us the labor condition of work and life of people on that field. Basilio Vargas is the firstborn in a family of a widow mother and two more siblings. Working in a small and improductive mine, he and his younger brother work for longs…

This fight was an event that was being celebrated all over Madrid, it was advertised that the strongest bull in Spain was fighting, when in reality it was just Ferdinand. So, when Ferdinand comes out in the ring, people were in for a completely different show. The author explains that "No one could get Ferdinand to fight. The banderilleros tried, the picadores tried…

Furthermore, the Chinese are also said to have arrived in the Americas before Columbus, but it had become lost to them over time. We continue to celebrate Columbus Day because he is the one who opened up the Americas to European powers. He allowed Spain to conquer land, acquire raw resources, and enslave the natives as workers. Also this holiday was become entwined with our culture. Although not everyone agrees with Columbus Day, most still celebrate it but with different names…

effects within Latin America, its imperial powers of Spain and Portugal, and the African slave trading system. Although the sugar industry jumpstarted the economy of Latin America and helped to set up the system of global relations that we have today, it left the region at a disadvantage in trade and had lasting negative effects on the social standings and interactions of Latin America. When sugar was recognized as a luxury item by the English, Spain and Portugal sought out to create sugar…

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros has occupied a shifting and uncertain place in the history of Western Europe in the sixteenth century. Historians have experienced considerable difficulty trying to pin him down in broad historical categories: he was a humanist, except for when he burned Muslim books in order to suppress their text-based philosophy. He was an ecclesiastical reformer, except for his unwillingness to create serious change within the Spanish Inquisition. The contradictions above are…

Columbus Essay. Should We Celebrate Columbus Day? In my opinion we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day because , “Columbus sent thousands of peaceful Taino “Indians” from the island of Hispaniola to Spain to be sold. Many Died en route” And if he just abused the powers he had from the king or whoever he got his powers from he should have been killed himself, killing thousands of people for no reason?!? Makes no since to me. Also, “he ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives we killed; in…

continue to celebrate Columbus Day and not treat Columbus as a villain. Spanish exploration before Columbus was rather limited, the Portuguese had gone up and down the coast of Africa before Spain could come in and lay claim to a lot of land. In 1492 Columbus came to America and claimed the land for Spain (even though he thought the land was Japan). When Columbus arrived he brought with him a cocktail of lethal diseases, such as smallpox or measles, which in turn destroyed the native…

Bartolomé de las Casas a Catholic priest, was the most eloquent critic of Spanish mistreatment of the New World’s native population (de las Casas, p.7). In his document, History of the Indies (1528), de las Casas aimed to inform the public back in Spain of the atrocities that occurred on the island of Hispaniola by Spanish “comendadors” and attempted to persuade them to stop such practices. When de las Casas arrived in the New World and in particular at the island of Hispaniola, present day…

compete with in the growing trade of desired and luxurious Asian goods and belief of finding a route or other items from foreign trade served as a major source of motive for states such as Spain. Especially states trying to avoid traveling through expensive taxes of Sultans in the Middle East. In states like Spain not only did the monarch and integrity of the country receive rewards of riches, conversion, and colonization, but the explorers had motives of personal gain from their hard work.…

The United States, France, and now Latin America has been riddled by the fever of revolution. Once again, the bourgeoisie, or specifically the Creoles, flipped the region’s political affairs upside down. The revolutions of Latin America in the 18th and 19th centuries completely changed the political affairs of the area. A wave of independence rippled through the region. Country after country became independent and separated from their European mother country as the revolutions spread. Social…