when [the] conquistador came to Chile in 1541..[and] attacked the recently founded city of Santiago.” (“The Arauco War”. Spanish Wars.) As any conquistador, their main mission was to take land for a reason, and similarly to Francisco Pizarro and the Incan empire, they all want to gain extra wealth to bring back to their homeland. Same was for Pedro de Valdivia, who heard that in the lands of the Mapuche people lies
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During the New World Encounters, the Spanish conquistadors both Cortes and Pizarro were able to take over the cities of the native people of the Americas. The advantage they had were their cannons, firearms, steel sword, armor and horses; but their potent weapon turn out to be their own germs. Since the native people of the Americas didn’t know what all of these advantages were, their population weakened. In the book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond shows how the common cold and other germs
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Avatar Pandora is an Earth-like moon that is a host to life. It has a very similar but different biosphere compared to that of the Earth’s. It has twenty percent less gravity than Earth making the proportional scale several times larger than Earth’s, the animals, the plants, everything is huge in comparison to the Earth. The atmosphere on Pandora is made up of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, xenon, ammonium, methane, and hydrogen sulfide. The carbon dioxide and the hydrogen sulfide are non-breathable
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History Of Chocolate The first recorded evidence of chocolate as a food product goes back to Pre-Columbian Mexico. The Mayans and Aztecs were known to make a drink called "Xocoatll from the beans of the cocoa tree. In 1528, the conquering Spaniards returned to Spain with chocolate still consumed as a beverage. A similar chocolate drink was brought to a royal wedding in France in 1615, and England welcomed chocolate in 1662. To this point "chocolate" as we spell it today, had been spelled variously
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Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful setting. It was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height; its giant walls, terraces and ramps seem as if they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock escarpments. The natural setting, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, encompasses the upper Amazon basin with its rich diversity of flora and fauna. Machu Picchu bears, with Cuzco and the
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over three hundred years. They were a rustic culture that had skills in animal breeding and agriculture (About Peru History, n.d.). They were an extremely religious culture, worshiping many gods, but considering the Sun God to be their main ruler. Incan kings were believed to be descended from the Sun God and were therefore seen as having absolute power. A society ruled by war, the Inca conquered and ruled most of South America for almost one hundred years. The Incas saw themselves
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Latino-Hispanic Ethnic Group Amy Jackson SOC/262 April 25th, 2016 Francis Wardle Latino-Hispanic Ethnic Group If you ever met any Latinos/Hispanics, they are really quick to let you know when you call them the wrong nationality. They are all very proud of their own culture whether it’s Mexican, Latino, Puerto Rican or Dominicans. We have such a variety in the US that’s it’s sometime hard to tell the difference. The Latino/Hispanic group is the only ethnic category counted separately
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Throughout history there have been an array of diseases and illnesses, everything from the common cold to epidemics that have decimated populations. Medical Science has progressed to the point that many diseases are now treatable, curable, or even extinct. Yet even with this incredible progress there are still many diseases that remain not only without a cure, but without even effective treatments. One of these diseases is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease as it is commonly
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Year 11 Preliminary English Assessment Task Task: Motorcycle Diaries Question Two: Define Communism. Discuss its origins and how and where it was spread. In your discussion you must refer to at least 3 countries, which have adopted communism and examine its success and failures and the reason behind both. You must also examine the role Marxism plays in Communist ideology. Communism is an economic and social system in which all, or nearly all, property and resources are collectively owned
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The two creations myths that I will be discussing is the Navajo. The Inca, they are signifying as the world that is on the earth with the moon. The sun elements of animals, fire, trees, water all symbolize the world Navajo also the Inca. With the Incan, believe the sun created the world, also who created the world. For the Navajo the sun, just like it created for the Inca. With both of these creators, they all made worlds for the people within their society the main, reason with both the Inca Navajo
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