potential uproar of the highly civilized society‚ Portugal was involved less as it id not have such a huge civilization as Spain. Spain’s colony in America needed a limited amount of labor for their mining‚ and most of it was reserved for the Indians (Incas) that made up 95% of the populations. The remaining 5% were whites born in Spain (peninsulares)‚ whites born in the New World ( creoles)‚ which made up 2% and Mixed bloods (mestizos and mulattoes)‚ less than 3%. Spain unlike a lot of the other European
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Diseases Diamond makes various arguments about diseases. The argument he makes that I will mention is that deadly disease came from Europe and spread to other places killing people that were unfamiliar with the disease. This is a good point that he makes‚ and the example he uses helps support his argument. His example is that smallpox came to the Aztecs from Europe. This disease killed a lot of Aztecs because they were unfamiliar with the disease‚ and because of that they couldn’t cure themselves
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Mikaela Duguil Period: 6 Chapter 1 Cornell notes 1. What was not an important goal of the early English explorers and colonists? It was not an important goal to build a new nation. 2. Discuss the factors that transformed the colonist and caused them to envision and creating an independent nation: common bonds‚ language‚ farmers‚ untouched by tyranny of royal authority‚ official religion and social hierarchy‚ individual freedom‚ and willingness to subjugate to others. 3. What factors divided the colonists
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15. Compare and contrast the social‚ cultural‚ political and economic structures of the Aztec Empire and Inca Empire. 16• Compare and contrast European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world. 17. Compare the empires of the European kingdoms of Great Britain‚ France‚ and Spain with the empires of the Ottomans‚ Mughals‚ and Ming in
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During the Age of European expansion‚ Spain stumbled onto its overseas empire; which just so happen to be very massive and have a lot of prosperity. Columbus was supported by Isabella‚ the queen of Castile. In 1492‚ he landed on a Caribbean island that he named Española‚ or also known as Little Spain. Even later‚ Columbus believed the West Indies were part of the East. The Spanish and Portuguese were not first outsiders to arrive‚ but were the first with guns‚ sails‚ horses‚ and religion. This helped
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so they build their nests out of guano and feathers‚ adding a new layer every year. By the time Europeans first saw the islands‚ the guano was more than 100 feet deep in places. Rich in nitrogen and phosphorus‚ guano makes great fertilizer. The Incas used it to improve their fields‚ prohibiting anyone from disturbing the birds and sending laborers to gather guano and carry it inland. In the 19th century‚ the bird poop was so valuable that countries went to war over it. Overharvesting of guano and
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stone and soft-metal weapons of the Indians that battles between them were no contest. Guns were shuddery however swords did the dirty work. Horses were conjointly a significant a part of the Spanish military advantage over the Aztecs‚ Mayans and Incas. the most important South yank animals were llamas‚ and though artiodactyl mammal spit will be nasty‚ it did not instill worry within the Spanish the means charging‚ armored horses did to the Indians. And speaking of animals‚ the
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text I believe the Americas were both discovered and conquered. The Bering Isthmus allowed nomadic Asian hunters to immigrate throughout the Americas for about 250 centuries. They discovered this land and made tribes that later became the Aztecs‚ Incas‚ Mayans‚ Pueblo Natives and many more. Christopher Columbus accidently came upon an island in the Bahamas which brought the New World to light for the Europeans. As a result‚ the Europeans started sailing to this New World and because they heard gold
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first experience as a sailor was with Pedro Arias de Ávila to Central America in 1514. Hernando‚ Ponce de Leon and Francisco Companion conquered Nicaragua in 1524‚ and became the leading citizen of that country. He was the first Spaniard to meet the Inca leader Atahualpa. De Soto and 620 other men went south to Tampa Bay‚ Florida on May 30‚ 1539. They meet a former explorer from a failed mission that lived with the Indians for twelve years‚ he used the former explorer as an interpreter and meets Indian
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Jacques Cousteau’s 1968 Lake Titicaca expedition[edit] In 1968 Jacques Cousteau mounted an expedition to explore Bolivia and Peru’s Lake Titicaca in search of submerged Inca treasure. [29] [30] [31] [32] Starting off the coast of Peru the diving equipment was tested and practive dives were made. Poor weather inturupted the practice session. Departing from the Port of Matarani Peru on the Pacific Ocean‚ Two mini Submarines were unloaded onto rail cars. The train climbed up the Andies Mountians
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