Spanish Empire

of the very first women in the 1500s to dominate her own era. Queen Elizabeth l controlled part of the government and provided suitable leadership for her army when the Spanish Armada tried to challenge England. With her intelligence, manipulative speech skills, and bravery, Queen Elizabeth inspired her army to face the Spanish Armada with fierceness, power, and strength, which lead to their victory. One of the ways Queen Elizabeth was able to lead her army to victory was with…

(1533 - 1603), was painted after the English defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. The Spanish Armada was a fleet of one-hundred thirty ships with 18,000 men transporting an army from Flanders to attack England due to religious differences.1 George Gower (1540 - 1596), Queen Elizabeth’s Serjeant Painter, painted The Armada Portrait to commemorate the Queen Elizabeth I’s accomplishment in leading England to successfully defeating the Spanish Armada. The portrait is currently on display at Woburn…

battle against the men who served the King of Spain, King Philip II, in 1588. The battle was taking place in Tilbury and was occurring because both Queen Elizabeth I and King Philip II wanted the control over trade. To try and take that control, the Spanish were planning an attack on English soil. England expected the invasion and prior to the repel against them, the Queen inspired her troops by reassuring them that their actions were in fact the right deed for their nation. Not only that but…

To what extent was Leadership the most important factor to why the Spanish Armada was defeated? One of the most famous attempts to invade Britain occurred in 1588 when the King of Spain, Phillip decided to send an armada of Spanish war ships to remove Queen Elizabeth from the throne. Phillip’s attempt to gain control of England failed, it failed for many reasons including the leadership of the two sides which affected the planning and tactical decisions made at sea, the weapons, resources and…

Thesis: Due to Transculturation reasons we can appreciate and illustrate the impact of the Spanish culture over the indies. Not only but also demonstrate the idea of obedezco pero no cumplio and its effects over the Spanish hegemony over the indigenous population. My primary sources have evidence of transculturation models over the Indies including the Spanish hegemony and effect on this indigenous population. Americans and Europeans cultures transformed and created New cultures that were…

Spain to settle and store treasures. The Spanish fleets used two ships to transport the treasure to St. Augustine. A large ship to to transport the treasure and a smaller ship to serve as protection against the French and Pirates who would sometimes attack the Spanish fleets for their treasure (Doc C). The Spanish fleets would use the gulfstream current to travel easily to Columbia to pick up gold and…

This is true in many aspects of life, including in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1519. What does the way the Spanish brutally took over the Aztec empire and left their remaining culture at little to nothing show about progress? It shows that progress comes at a price. That price, in my opinion, is too great to risk the loss of an entire culture. Spanish conquerors did what they set out to do. They conquered the entire Aztec empire and left them broken, and shattered into small…

Did you know that 95% of the Incan population died after first contact with the Spanish? Or that while America successfully sent men to land on the moon, Papua New Guinea was still forced to use stone tools? The world is unequal and the seeds were planted in geographical resources. These uneven geographical resources doomed some cultures to failure, but some to stardom. For example, Papua New Guinea was too wet to grow efficient crops crops, had no domesticable animals and because of that were…

In the year of 800 A.D the Vikings attacked Paris and the only way to make them stop was the price of 5,670 lbs of silver and gold. The viking that led the sack of Paris was a Norse chieftain named Reginherus. This event happened years ago but is still relevant to today because the Vikings failed to capture the city, which made them attack three times instead of a hit and run or a battle. Most of the reason the Vikings kept attacking Paris, was that Paris bribed the Vikings every time they…

Quotation: “I would also suggest that Maria Micaela’s “playing dumb” (“… Since I’m a woman I don’t know what rey común means”) was a kind of strategic essentialism which, by playing into Spanish prejudice, was often deployed by Andeans. That is, since her Spanish captors would expect her to be ignorant, she could easily plead ignorance.”(Penry, 226) Argument: The author, S. Elizabeth Henry, is arguing that the Andeans were able to take advantage of the stereotypes the Spaniards had of them. The…