author cannot provide a definite answer. Later in the book‚ Jared Diamond describes how Francisco Pizarro‚ a Spanish conquistador‚ easily overcame the Incas using European advantage. So‚ what is Yali’s question and how does the author attempt to answer? How did Pizarro defeat the Incas and how does this relate? Yali’s question attempts to be answered by the author‚ but a closer look into how Pizarro defeated the
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and Xicotencatl the Younger‚ captured the emperor Moctezuma in Tenochtitlan‚ the capital of the Aztec Empire (Today Mexico City). In South America‚ after years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes‚ 168 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting but ended in Spanish victory in 1572 and colonization of the region as the Viceroyalty
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circumstances that lead to a military dictatorship in Chile. “Machuca” is framed around the last days of the UP (Unidad Popular) government of Salvador Allende in 1973” (Martín-Cabrera & Voionmaa‚ 2007). Through the reference of two school kids‚ ‘Pedro’ and ‘Gonzalo’‚ the movie explains to us the complications of the socialist government and the dictatorial regimes‚ and the effects on the common civilians. In this paper‚ we will discuss the Socialist and Dictatorial experiences in Chile‚ in context to the movie
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disappearance of most groups of Native Americans.” This battle was between the Incas and the Spaniards. Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a Spanish army of 168 soldiers; he was going against an army of 80‚000 soldiers led by Atahualpa. Pizarro was 1000 miles away from reinforcements‚ and knew nothing about the local inhabitants. The stakes were all against him. Yet Pizarro was able to win
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How does Shaffer create and use dramatic tension in “The Royal Hunt of the Sun” and to what effect? The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a gripping play about the journey of the Spanish army sent to conquer Peru‚ and the unlikely friendships that are formed. Shaffer creates dramatic tension with a number of techniques such as the use of Martin to narrate the story to the audience‚ a unique and powerful use of sounds‚ and the use of symbolic props and duologue scenes that create dramatic irony. He also
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The first scene from the film that is representative of Chile’s social climate is when Gonzalo first visits the slums with Pedro. When they arrive at the outskirts of Pedro’s community‚ Pedro gets off the bike and says that he will go from there himself. There is some hesitation to allow Gonzalo into his community‚ possibly out of embarrassment. Once they get to Pedro’s home it is painfully obvious that Gonzalo has never been in this type of environment. When he asks to use their restroom it is revealed
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Spanish advantage outweighed the simple fact that Cortés more or less knew what was happening‚ whereas Mexica leaders‚ including Moctezuma‚ the Aztec emperor‚ had no earthly idea who‚ or what the Spaniards might be[3]. Like Hernan Cortés‚ Francisco Pizarro also had experience in making alliances‚ which aided the Spaniards in the conquest of Peru. In Born in Blood and Fire‚ Chasteen states‚ “Neither the Incas nor the Aztecs could have been defeated without the aid of the Spaniards’ indigenous allies[4]
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pure (Shakespeare)”. Here Gonzalo describes the type of world he would create for himself if he was ruler of the island. The Utopia he ends up describing has many similarities to the Bible’s Garden of Eden. Gonzalo would reject from the island earthly possessions and inventions such as metal‚ wine and weapons. This would create a world with no possessions and weapons which would keep people in a state of nature where greediness and jealousy would not exist. When Gonzalo says “Letters” he really means
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Contrasting the Aztecs and the Incas: The Aztecs settled in the central valley of Mexico in 1200 A.D‚ while the Incans settled in the Andes Mountains. The Aztec civilization spoke the language nahuatl but the Incans spoke Quecha. Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incas civilization with only few hundreds of men and The Aztecs were conquered by a conquistador named Hernan Cortes‚ who destroyed the population of the Aztecs by the small pox disease. Although these two civilizations had many differences
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for two years. One day‚ Pizarro and his men came across a large Inca camp; the Inca Empire covered 3‚000 miles of the western coast of South America. The Inca civilization was very advanced; they built a network of roads and stations connecting the Inca towns and also had the people pay taxes in which some paid in corn and potatoes or gold as well. However‚ the Incan empire fell to Pizarro after a previous war that weakened them. Further down by the south‚ Francisco Pizarro reached Peru‚ Atahualpa
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