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In Doc 1 written by the Roman historian, Florus in c.150 says that there should not be a war with slaves and men should not be forced to follow the rules of a cruel ruler. Also, he stated that since the rulers/masters were cruel to their people, the ones that escaped tried to take revenge. On the other hand, in Doc 2, written by Han fei tzu, a Legalist philosopher, believed that the kingdom would be weak if the laws were weak. To prevent this, he said that there should be one supreme ruler that has absolute control over everything in the way that he wants to so as to not lose power and authority. This is significant because these liabilities and benefits show how, depending on how the government was run, and how the rulers treated their people,
After the Ottoman Turks gained control of the Middle East, trade with Asia became difficult for Europeans across land. Many European explorers began searching for sea routes to Asia to renew trade. When explorers found the Americas, they had their mind set on gold to cope with the deteriorating European economy, but upon arrival and the realization gold was minimal, explorers enslaved many Natives and put them to work to produce another metal abundant in the area - silver. At the time, they really had no idea about the global impact silver would make. The discovery of silver by the Spanish in the Americas in the period of 1550 to 1700 brought about vast changes in economic exchange and production by making the world more interconnected through
History Vocab Chapter 2 1. Mesopotamia- comes from two greek words meaning “the land between the two rivers”. These rivers were the Tigris and Euphrates. This is where modern day iraq is. It is important because the rivers provided the first cultivators with irrigation which led them to a food surplus.
Discussion Forum Unit 3 After the Ottoman Empire blocks the spice trade route when they took Constantinople in 1453, force to the European powers to search for new route to reach India and Easter Asia. Through this intent to fine new routes Christopher Columbus arrived in the new world 1492, establishing in the Hispaniola Island today Santo Domingo city, Dominican Republic, from (UNESCO, 1990) “were departure for the spread of European culture and the conquest of the continent. From its port conquerors such as Ponce de Leon, Juan de Esquivel, Herman Cortes, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda and many others departed in search of new lands.”
During the 16th and 17th centuries there were four powerful leaders in the world. Emperor Kangxi, who was the ruler of China in the Qing dynasty. Pedro de Cieza de León, who arrived in America as a boy but was Spanish, fought in the war against the Inca (which the Spanish) won and looked over how the Incan empire was run. Louis XIV who ruled France from 1643 to 1715, and finally Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal state from 1605 to 1627, after the reign of his father, Akbar. The kings and emperors of the 16th and 17th centuries faced multiple challenges when running their societies.
An enduring issue is a prominent problem that has affected or been affected by people throughout history. The ongoing issue of inequality is the state of being unequal. One group has more power than the others. There have been many instances of inequality in years past, such as the Treaty of Nanjing. The Treaty of Nanjing was established after the opium wars between China and Great Britain (OI).
While some similarities are seen among Hernando Cortés and the Mexica in their view of the colonization of the New World, the differences are more significant to understanding the history of the Spanish arrival and conquest. As a Spanish conquistador on a mission to expand, Cortés did all he could to accomplish this goal. The Mexica, on the other hand, saw the Spaniards as the prophesied gods that their omens forewarned them about. Cortés and the Mexica distinctively viewed the event that led up to the fall and conquer of Technochtitlan, the Mexica capital, in the light of their own culture and religion.
In the sixteenth century, Spanish exploration of the New World set off a series of events that involved vicious conquests, religious domination, and ethnic discrimination of Native people. Following these conquests, what was left of the Native population was subjected to colonialism, where European superiority and exploitation lived on. Even after gaining independence, prejudice and belittlement of Native Americans continued throughout nineteenth century Latin America and onward. Each of the four films touch on a specific era of Native and European contact, but they differ in terms of portraying the effects of colonialism.
The American Historian and Diplomat George Kennan once said that “The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.” Humans must heavily analyze the past via themes when reviewing sources in order to understand the past through our ancestors eyes. This is why the themes of the 3Cs, Change, Comparison and Connection are fundamental. Connection must be considered due to the way countries can affect each other, such as the way the Industrial Revolution had a widespread impact across the world.
The Spanish conquest on the Mayans was a significant event during the 1500’s. The Spanish conquest brought their military equipment’s that was no match for the Mayan Indians. As the conquest continued to expand throughout Central America there was little unity among other tribes beside the Mayan empire. The reason for this is because they believe that the Spanish were much inferior to their own beliefs and ancestry.
The American imperialism was bad for the natives because of the native recourse they taking over their land and forcing them to become their allies. I would say this hurt the Native because they forcing to do something they don’t want to do Thomas Jefferson expected the fall of Spanish empire. Thomas
Native Americans flourished in North America, but over time white settlers came and started invading their territory. Native Americans were constantly being thrown and pushed off their land. Sorrowfully this continued as the Americans looked for new opportunities and land in the West. When the whites came to the west, it changed the Native American’s lives forever. The Native Americans had to adapt to the whites, which was difficult for them.
The Spaniards and Portuguese had different ways of pushing the Native Americans towards their own goals. In the end it neither country benefited, but the native customs were shattered. The Native Americans
This power imbalance and these payments are key in the subjugation of the natives. Furthermore, the paternalism of the Spanish toward the Indigenous peoples is obvious: “Captain [Cortes] stared at him [Cuauhtemoc]…then patted him on the head” (p.117). Post-conquest, and still today, “difficult relations” between the descendants of the Indigenous peoples and the “others” (p.117) still exist. The European view of the natives “as idolatrous savages” or, on the contrary, as “models of natural virtue” (p.175) demonstrate the versatile and often contradictory views held. Similarly, the Aztecs at times saw the Spaniards as gods, and other times as gold-hungry savages who “fingered it like monkeys” (p.51).
While the colonization of the America’s was negative for many reasons such as the spread of illnesses, and the forcing of religion upon natives, it was also beneficial to the Native’s because it allowed them to have better weapons and to have different foods and goods in their lives. The Europeans exposed the Natives to many new diseases once they colonized the new areas they discovered. The Europeans greatly impacted the family life and religion of the inhabitants of the areas they found. There was also a lot of exchange going on during the conquest of the Americas because the Natives were excited by the new gadgets they had never seen before that the Europeans brought over.
