Christopher Columbus and Zheng He were both 15-century explorers who made significant discoveries during their lifetime. Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist who sailed for the Catholic Monarchs of Spain during his voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Zheng He was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, and court eunuch during China’s early Ming dynasty. […]
On a Monday the 14th day in October every year, many people celebrate what is called Christopher Columbus day. Christopher Columbus, and his accomplishments have been rewritten and retold many times, in many different ways. In the school, it is presented to the students that Christopher Columbus is an awesome Italian Hero who discovered America […]
About the Author The author of the book A People’s History of the United States is Howard Zinn. He is known as a civil rights leader, an anti-war activist, and an award-winning playwright. He is notably recognized because of this bestselling nonfiction book. This was considered a very controversial tome because of its presentation of […]
Throughout history, imperialism has had a profound effect on many different countries and their conquests. Imperialism is the process by which a larger and/or more dominant country seeks to extend its jurisdiction beyond its own borders (Citation?, year). Imperialistic countries seek and have this motive to expand their borders into other countries because the expansion […]
The formal name of Panama is Republic of Panama and commonly called by its short name Panama. The citizens of Panama are termed as Panamanians. Panama City is the capital of Panama country.Panama’s total area is 74,177.3 km. It is located in Central America , between the borders of both the Caribbean Sea and the […]
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Get startedThe Age of Discovery(also known as the Age of Exploration) began in the late 14th century to the early 15th century and it lasted clear through the 17th century. It was the time in European history when the overseas exploration began to grow in population. For most Europeans, the Age of Discovery was a time […]
Part One: The Aztecs were taken by the fact that the Spaniards had different clothing, food, appearance, and animals then them. The Aztecs never saw iron and were surprised to see the Spaniard covered in full iron from head to toe. Also, the Aztecs were baffled by the food the Spaniards had because the food […]
Christopher Columbus was an explorer who explored islands south of North America which is present day Cuba, Bahamas, and Part of Central America. Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa Italy. Christopher Columbus was a sailor from age 14 and was determined to become an explorer. He married in 1479 to Felipa Perestrello Moniz […]
“Juan’s parents were nobles. Luis Ponce de Leon was his father and his mother was Leonor de Figueroa. Juan Ponce de Leon was born in Spain in 1474, more specifically Santervas de Campos in Spain. Growing up, his parents wanted him to be a squire to a Knight Commander named Don Pedro Nunez de Guzman. […]
Trinidad and Tobago is a dual island know to be close to the continent, South America. The country is located in the Caribbean most closet to Venezuela. Trinidad and Tobago is surrounded by smaller islands, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Paria. The islands surrounding include Barbados, Guyana, Venezuela, Grenada, and the Island nation of […]
Immigration remains a controversial and highly debated topic in the United States. Parties continuously bicker over the correct policies and procedures regarding immigrants; many politicians, and citizens have strong opinions regarding immigration. However, many people lack experiences as immigrants, although the United States remains no stranger to immigration, as it was founded by immigrants. Award-winning […]
Though European travelers and settlers referred to the Americas as “the new world”, there was nothing new about the lands they had “discovered”. For thousands of years, Native people roamed the lands freely in the form of hundreds of different tribes. They built communities, practiced their own religions, spoke their own languages, and lived their […]
“Hispaniola was the first land in the New World to be destroyed and depopulated by the Christians …,” said Bartolomé De La Casas as he edited Columbus’s travel journals (Koning 1). De La Casas was explaining the tragedy that would bestow itself upon the Americas. Set out to explore the Indies, Christopher Columbus embarked on […]
“1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created,” was written by Charles C. Mann in 2011 and published by Alfred A. Knopf on August 9, 2011. 1493 has a length of 560 pages, with four parts: the Introduction, part one, Atlantic Journeys; part two, Pacific Journeys; part three, Europe in the World; and Part four, Africa […]
“I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have […]
“In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” One of the first things that I remember learning in school as a child was that a brave explorer named Christopher Columbus discovered America. Our history books were filled with fun stories about the young mapmaker who convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to finance his […]
When colonizers conquered new land, they frequently had tiny concern for the people living in the new land, and for existing cultures. Indigenous populations that once existed as a separate identity were forced to assimilate into the new European culture. One example of this occurrence is the Spanish exploration of the Americas. The voyage of […]
Viewing the world as is was from medieval to modern, there are various factors that conditioned the transition. The first part of knowing the factors of transition is the knowledge of when the transition took the first steps. The Renaissance, which is the improvement of economics and politics between the two time periods. This time […]
Within several centuries, African American life had been framed by forced migrations. One of these enormous migrations was the transatlantic slave trade in which several regions like Africa, America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Indian Ocean were involved. According to French historian Jean-Michel Deveau the slave trade and consequently slavery, which lasted from the 16th […]
History is a very important and intriguing subject as it is said to understand where we are going, we must first understand where we came from. In this class we learned about the beginnings of our country and the hardships that the colonist dealt with to make the United States what it is today. We […]
“Latin America as a whole has suffered from the reoccurring theme of being seen as inferior, with fifteenth century Europeans creating this tainted reputation through their gruesome treatment of natives. When Columbus and his men first voyaged across the Atlantic Ocean to Latin America, their immediate mentality was that they had to develop the uncivilized […]
People generally prefer to see themselves as smart, generous, kind, patient and forgiving most of the time. But life isn’t ideal. People aren’t perfect and simply cannot be nice and good 100% of the time. When people are honest with themselves they actually have some pretty scary and embarrassing flaws that are preferred to be […]
”’What right had the first discoverers of America to land, and take possession of a country, without asking the consent of its inhabitants, or yielding them an adequate compensation for their territory?’” said Washington Irving (Bodenner). Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy and is known for finding America while sailing the ocean […]
The indigenous people of Jamaica were known as the Arawaks. They named the island Xaymaca, which means “land of water and wood”. The Arawaks lived in tribes where the women were responsible for farming crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, fruits, cotton, and tobacco while the men were responsible for fishing and hunting. The Arawaks […]
During the 15th and 16th centuries C.E. various maritime expeditions were on the rise. These included but were not limited to voyages conducted by some of the leading powers at the time: the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal and the Ming Empire. Despite Spain and Portugal being on the Western part of Europe and the […]
Transculturation is the result of different culture mixing together to create one. The word transculturation was first introduced in 1947 by a Cuban anthropologist named Fernando Ortiz. The concept of transculturation is the merging of multiple cultures which results from colonialism. Especially during the post-colonial term, indigenous people find it difficult to reclaim their sense […]
Abstract Cancer has become a worldwide health concern and a need for a cure exposed us to seek for natural alternatives. The Annona muricata is a plant-based remedy which popularity have increase over time due to its anticancer properties. Its organism’s constituents have shown to have promising compounds that can instigate apoptosis and anti-proliferation on […]
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. He led the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, initiating the permanent European colonization of the Americas. Columbus discovered the viable sailing route to […]
Discuss the Exploitation of the Atlantic through a trade system. Who were the major players in terms of an Atlantic trading empire? What at first began with the Portuguese as kings of trade eventually spread to other major nations…WHY and HOW? What types of goods were essential in creating trading empires and producing exploitation of […]
After more than a thousand years of growth into an advanced and economically complex society, the Spanish conquerors landed on the Greater Antilles Islands, coming in with a mindset that dehumanized these people and the world they have created for themselves, being so vastly different from their “advanced ideas.” Christopher Columbus has described these people […]
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