relations in Massachusetts‚ came to loathe Native Americans. There was a serious culture clash here between stone age Native Americans (who had no land as private property‚ property belonged variously to the family‚ clan‚ or tribe) and Iron Age Europeans. Europeans had a totally different concept of private property. Your own property could be sold‚ transferred‚
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Although Latin America has faced many social‚ political‚ and economic issues within the last three centuries‚ inequality remains one of the most important‚ historical‚ and omnipresent aspects of the region’s culture. As Europeans took over Latin America during the time of colonization‚ they implemented many elitist social structures that have held strong and are evident today (Harris). Income inequality is the most visible and greatest disparity that the region faces; yet inequality between gender
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The Europeans first started building settlements in North America in the 1500s‚ bringing not only germ cover blankets‚ but also new art techniques. Before contact with the Europeans the art style of the Native Americans consisted of carved totem poles‚ pottery decoration to show lineage‚ and complex paintings on stone. Imagery was used as a symbol of sacred events‚ rituals‚ and natural forces‚ which could include everything from celestial bodies and weather to the indigenous animals of the region
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The countries that led most of the exploration of South and Central America were Spain and Portugal. They have introduced many changes to the new conquered territory. It all begins with the search for better access to new routes of trade with Asia. At the European explorations‚ countries like Spain and Portugal were the pioneers in the discovery and conquest of new lands. Portugal and Spain during their voyages accidentally came upon the western hemisphere; then soon started to exploit the new land
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Modernization and Indigenous � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �7� Modernization and Indigenous Cultures William Ward Axia College of University of Phoenix SOC120 Intro to Sociology Yvonne Moore March 23‚ 2008 � � Introduction Modernization is the process of moving from farming and agricultural society to an industrial society and it mainly deals with societies after the Industrial Revolution of the mid-18th century. Some key features of modernization would be large‚ formal organizations and division
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struggle that Westerners experience when studying Latin American culture is adopting the viewpoint that Latin Americans are the protagonists of their own lives‚ and have often shown innovation that is independent of Western influence. Westerners have the tendency to overemphasize the role that the United States and other “developed” countries have had on the progress of Latin American development. It is rather easy to simply dismiss the notion that Latin Americans have agency over their conditions‚ especially
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On the surface‚ the origins of modern medicine seem to have nothing but a Western influence. Amongst the world’s medical products‚ the U.S. is literally the mecca of prescription and over the counter drugs. America alone accounts for five of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical corporations (Pharmaceutical-Technology 1.) However‚ America’s prowess and significance in the world of medicine does not necessarily elucidate to the entirety of the history of medicine. Contrary to popular belief‚ Africa is
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Spanish and early indigenous interactions from the mid 1500’s until the early 1600’s played a significant role in how Latin American culture is shaped today. The Spanish conquests of hundreds of indigenous tribes such as the Mayan‚ Aztecs‚ and the people of the Andean mountain range led to an inevitable clash of traditional indigenous cultures and what Europeans considered to be an established and civilized culture of the Spanish Empire. Through primary sources such as Catalina Erauso’s‚ Lieutenant
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 Slavery in the Americas was quite diverse. Mining operations in the tropics experienced different needs and suffered different challenges than did plantations in more temperate areas of Norther Brazil or costal city’s serving as ports for the exporting of commodities produced on the backs of the enslaved peoples from the African continent. This essay will look at these different situations and explore the factors that determined the treatment of slaves‚ the consequences of that treatment
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The Conquest of Latin America: Europe and the External Other It has taken a long time to realise how the respective peoples perceived the encounter between people from Europe and people from Latin America. Enrique DUSSEL describes the process of encounter between the European conquistadores and the indigenous people of the Americas from a European point of view in six forms: Invention‚ Discovery‚ Conquest‚ Colonisation‚ Spiritual Conquest‚ and Extermination. For the indigenous people of Central
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