...Spanish and European colonization in the Americas is a big part of our history, and it started with a certain explorer. Francisco Pizarro was an explorer, soldier, and conquistador who explored South America, conquered the Inca Empire, and brought culture and language to the Americas. Francisco Pizarro most notable explorations are those from South America, mostly Peru. His first voyage was in 1513, when he was a soldier. He joined Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his expedition, where he discovered the Pacific Ocean. Later in his life, Francisco wanted to make his own discoveries. So, joined by Diego Almagro, they voyaged to Peru. They then travelled back to Spain to get permission to claim the land of Peru for Spain. Their 1531 expedition, to the Inca Empire, was to find gold, which Pizarro took, much to the Incans dismay....
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...The Philippines has gone through different colonization and occupations from other countries. The first to colonize the Philippines is Spain. The next is the United States of America and finally the Japanese occupation occurred. Spanish Colonization in the Philippines After the Spaniards succeeded in 1556 to break the last good organized resistance, a long period of Spanish influence followed. The Spaniards ruled the country, brought the Christian religion to the country and were responsible for a lot of colonial and religious buildings throughout the country. The results can still be seen in places as for instance Cebu City and Manila. According to them, they colonized us because they wanted to spread Christianity to everyone, which would be like pointing a loaded gun at someone while saying “Let’s be friends” in a really friendly way. And they didn’t waste time doing it. They used God’s awesome might to wow and befriend the people, add some military kapow into the mix and *BOOM!* we’re Spain’s colony before we even knew it. Spain was one of those countries who were thirsty for power. since the Spain was a Catholic country, it was obliged by the pope to convert the natives from places they colonized into Christianity. The contributions of the Spaniards in the Philippines: Language - some of our word adapted to Spaniards Names of the country, provinces and cities - some of our provinces named after the...
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...Portuguese finance their explorations and voyages. Spanish bankers Prior to the fifteenth century, how did luxury and exotic goods travel to Europe? Overland from Persia, Asia Minor, India, and Africa Who were the mestizos? persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin wrote the book utopia Thomas more Malinali proved invaluable to Cortés’s mission because of her knowledge of Multiple languages Where did the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvars Cabral accidentally make landfall? Brazil Who organized the English colonization of Roanoke Island? Sir walter Raleigh Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World? the spread of democracy to the Americas What was the highest social class in New Spain? Peninsulares A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was an expansion of Africa’s internal slave trade. Which of the following was expressed by Bartolomé de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552? He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration. Which explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 1488? Bartolomeu Dias What was the first permanent European settlement in the present day United States? St. Augustine Which of the following statements about Europeans' view of the New World is NOT accurate? America as a place of savagery, cannibalism, and death The chief...
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...The first gallant adventurers of the New World were daring Spaniards. Fueled by the desire of adventure and riches, Spanish explorers and conquistadors spread throughout the newly discovered Americas like wildfire. It all started in 1492 when the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria shattered through the glass gateway of the Atlantic, which had previously isolated two worlds of people, cultures, and ideas. Christopher Columbus, a Portuguese sailor with a dream of finding an alternate route to India, came to the King and Queen of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella. After finishing their Reconquista of Spain from the Moors, the couple heard him. They shared Columbus’s vision so greatly, that they rejected the advice of their own geographers. Columbus’s three vessels anchored on the shores of an island...
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...witch. The witch predicts the coming of the Spanish and the death and destruction that would come from their arrival. She defined certain characteristics of the Spanish such as how they viewed the earth as “dead”, taking as much as possible from it without giving back, and how violence was a direct response to fear. The story that this witch told was viewed as a curse on the pueblos that could not be defied. Oral tradition was a way of preserving history in pueblo tribes and this story was passed down a warning to future generations. The racial diversity of Spain as described by Martha...
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...Joint-stock company- a new form of business organization spread into the commercial world with many investors. when the demand rose so did the profit. this made clear that one only owes another the money they had. this drifted away from traditional strict regulations of the economy for social reciprocity Protestant Reformation- started because of Luther’s revolt, it changed christianity forever and made lutheranism the state religion in Scandinavian countries, and calvinism competed with catholicism and reformed church of england in france and the netherlands, leaving states with nations of germany and switzerland for catholics, lutherans and calvinists Catholic or Counter-Reformation- a response to the protestant reformation. MAry I tried...
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...History 105 Mon-Wed: Midterm March 20, 2013 1. Describe the motivation by Europeans for discovery, exploration and colonization of the Americas. Describe the differences among the countries in their colonization efforts and its affects on the continents? I would like to think that one the first major motivations for Europeans to set for discovery, exploration, and colonization of the Americas was the fact that many people had died and was dying from the plague and fighting internal wars. One would think that out of death, desperation, and rampage; an extreme need to set out to find a better way of life was channeled. However, an increasing demand for the spices, gold, tobacco, expand territory, and silk which the Americas offered, was the first major motivation for European exploration. Obtaining spice was important so that they could season and cover up the flavor of the spoiled and rotten meat that they had to eat. Finding gold was important for wealth and silk was beneficial since it was a lighter material so that their skin was able to breath and for other reasons of vanity. Trade was very important since Europe didn’t have a lot of resources. The European’s natural curiosities about the world beyond Europe also lead to the expansion of trade routes. In order to fund these expeditions the Europeans had to receive funding from the monarchs. The monarchs were more than willing and able to provide the sponsorship and funding for the expeditions because...
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...official name of the country by the Governador General to honor his king of Spain Philip and they called Philippians and then into Philippines. Prior to Spanish colonization, Filipinos during those times were that previously had been composed by independent kingdoms and communities, pushing back south the advancing Islamic forces and creating the first draft of the nation that was to be known as the Philippines. First arrival of western Europeans was the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan for a reason so as to reach the Spice Islands via South America and to gain exclusive European rights to spices. Landed at the small uninhabited island of Homonhon at the mouth of Leyte Gulf. He sought friendship among natives beginning with rajah Humabon, and he took special pride in coverting them to Catholicism. Magellan was killed by Lapu-lapu, chieftain of Mactan , in the Battle of Mactan. Spanish colonization and settlement began with the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi's expedition on February 13, 1565 who established the first permanent settlement of San Miguel on the island of Cebu.[4] The expedition continued northward reaching the bay of Manila on the island of Luzon on June 24, 1571,[5] where they established a new town and thus began an era of Spanish colonization that lasted for more than three centuries. With the claim of Ferdinand Magellan of the Philippines for Spain in 1521, for the next 377...
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...settlers of the Americas took place in North America in Alaska. Asian hunters are thought to have traveled over the Bering Strait during a glacial period somewhere between 35,000 B.C.E. and 10,000 years later. The Asian people, referred to as Native Americans, did not realize their discovery of a new world. The early North American men and women were nomadic hunters and gatherers. As the further migration continued south an agricultural lifestyle formed. The European colonization of the Americas is thought to have been established by explorers and fishermen at a much later date. The blend of diversity was apparent as the migration of the Americas grew and strong developed societies were established. Although Native American descendants merely followed their survival instincts, they had discovered an abundant new world. The nomadic hunters tracked animals across the frozen land bridge and crossed into a new continent. The migration continued south along the west coast. “Over a span of 25,000 years settlement spread down the Alaskan coast, then deeper into the North American mainland, and finally throughout Central and South America.” (Davidson, 2006, p. 11). The original survival lifestyle of the nomadic hunters blended into new discovered agricultural resources with the progressive southern migration. The discovery of producing a food supply through cultivating crops created an agricultural revolution. The migration throughout the Americas had proved to be...
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...When the American fathers of the Declaration of Independence, they made it their purpose that they would stay isolated from the world, so that they could focus on their nation and make it stronger. At the time, America would have needed a lot of attention to become the superpower it is today, however in the late 1890’s the American soldiers and political leaders broke the foreign policy by taking over the Philippines. Even though the men who spoke of the ceded Philippine, they had different messages through their tone. The first Spaniard to set foot on the Philippines was Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, however the actual invasion did not begin until 1564. Spanish power in the Philippines soon started to fall as other nations were starting to practice their spread of power in the mid 1700s. When the U.S.S Maine sunk in an American attempt to relieve the tension between Cuba and Spain exploded, the U.S. declared war on Spain and won a naval battle against them in Manila Bay, May 1, 1898. By the time U.S. got to the Philippines, the Filipinos has already declared their independence from Spain. However, their celebration did not last long when the Treaty of Paris 1898 transferred the Philippines to under the U.S.’s power. Wesley Merritt, William Mckinley, and Otis all had the same message to the Filipinos. Everyone pretty much said the same thing, but at the different times, to remind the Filipinos that the Americans were not their enemy. However, when Merritt made the first announcement...
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...their time. Reconquista- Long struggle that ended in 1492, which Spanish Christians reconquered the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim occupiers. Protestants- Europeans...
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...The United States Through Industrialism Brings Learning Alive! Teachers’ Curriculum Institute 1 Introduction I n this reading, you will learn about the Age of Exploration. This period of discovery lasted from about 1418 to 1620. During this time, European explorers made many daring voyages that changed world history. A major reason for these voyages was the desire to find sea routes to east Asia, which Europeans called the Indies. When Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean, he was looking for such a route. Instead, he landed in the Americas. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies. In time, Europeans would realize that he had found what they called the ”New World.” European nations soon rushed to claim lands in the Americas for themselves. Early explorers often suffered terrible hardships. In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan set out with three ships to cross the Pacific Ocean from South America. He had guessed, correctly, that the Indies lay on the other side of the Pacific. But Magellan had no idea how vast the ocean really was. He thought his crew would be sailing for a few weeks at most. Instead, the crossing took three months. While the ships were still at sea, the crew ran out of food. One sailor wrote about this terrible time. “We ate biscuit… swarming with worms…. We drank yellow water that had been putrid [rotten] for days... and often we ate sawdust from boards.” Why did explorers brave such dangers? In this reading, you will discover some of...
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...CONTRASTING THE SPANISH EXPLORATION FROM THE ENGLISH EXPLORATION Sean Kazmierski HIEU 201 6 December 2015 Introduction Evidence of the earliest travel by European explorers into the ‘new world’ can be traced back to 1000AD. It began with the Vikings sailing from their native land in the British Isles to Greenland where they created a colony. Later, they left Greenland for North America where they saw virgin land with exotic plants, animal species, and indigenous people[1]. The Vikings returned home with stories about the marvels of the places they had visited, but their home authorities lacked the will power or the resources to make a follow-up on these explorations. As a result, European states continued to make commerce across the Mediterranean Sea with North Africa for many years that followed. Research has shown that the methods and motivations of exploration were unique from one state to the other. As Europeans continued their explorations, we will examine the similarities and differences on how the Spanish (1492-1548) and English (1584-1648) conducted their exploration and expansion. Comparison Between the British and Spanish in North America The first Spanish to arrive in America was Hernan Cortes in 1519. He did the groundwork for the creation of the Spanish colony. In 1607, Christopher Newport set foot in what would later become Jamestown, laying the foundation of the British Empire in North America. Explorers, such...
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...has been created is the cause of many nations living in poverty. As indicated in the documentary, the United States makes up less than 5% of the world’s population, but are consuming over 25% of the world’s resources and creating 30% of its major pollution. The U.S alone is contributing to a significant amount of the worlds poverty. However, poverty is not an issue that started in the 20th century. Global inequality began in 1492, with the start of European intervention. The colonial system took 500 yrs.’ to create. During the 16th century almost all of the continents were connected by brutal European domination, which spread to Asia and Africa. The capitalism and modern times started at the moment of the conquest the colonization and submission of the people of America by the Spanish and the Portuguese. The systematic and permanent process started when the Spanish and the Portuguese stole all the riches of the Incas and...
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...The Spanish were the first European country to establish large settlements in the Americas, and perhaps, the most brutal and aggressive nation out of the three colonizing powers. The Spanish came to America with a clear purpose to conquer the land and force the people to submit to the government. According to Render, the Spanish sent armies of men to subdue and conquer the land, extract its resources, and spread Christianity to its Indigenous inhabitants who were enslaved in the process (25). In order to make the subjugation process easier, the Spanish established what they call the mission system. Missions were built across Turtle Island, not serving as places for people who waned to learn about the glory of Christ, but to imprison the Indigenous inhabitants on the island. Cruelly, the Native Americans were enslaved and forced to build their own prison camps. Once being captivated, the prisoners were “separated by sex and age in order to ensure control over the growth of the population” (Render, 26). Throughout the time that the Spanish governed the area, the population of Native people on Turtle Island decreases dramatically, due to disease, poor living standard, or...
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