get silk, precious metals wanted gold and riches and also wanted new materials. The people wanted to discover new routes.9/10 americans died. Europeans exploration impacted many changes in the Americas from the late 1400s to 1776. They gave the Native Americans metal tools. Lots land disease, enforced laws which violated their culture and much more. Guns, alcohol and horses. It changed their way of hunting for food because they didn’t know how to use guns they were heavy to hold and it also changed
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portrayed as the first European to sail to the Americas. He is sometimes portrayed as the discoverer of the New World. However, this is controversial on many counts. There is evidence that the first Europeans to sail across the Atlantic were Viking explorers from Scandinavia. In addition, the land was already populated by indigenous peoples, who had 'discovered' the Americas thousands of years before hand. Let’s take a look back on columbus’
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Nichole Oliver Professor Scott ENG-ENF 3/III April 23, 2016 We Should Abolish Columbus Day Only two federal holidays in the United States bear the name of two specific men, ironically one of them fought racism -- Martin Luther King Jr., and the other was a genocidal racist – Chistopher Columbus. Opposition to Columbus Day (observed on the second Monday of October) has intensified in recent decades, while the former passes each year with relatively little controversy. The issue of if we should
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The Spanish conquistadors were some of the greatest conquerors and explorers in the America region, even after the death of Christopher Colombus, one of the most successful Spanish conquistadors during his time. The conquistadors were motivated by money, glory, and religion, and all conquistadors weren’t just explorers, but came from various backgrounds. Some were originally priests, soldiers, scientists, it didn’t matter what you were previously, they all were driven and motivated by the same things
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Complete the following using the MySocLab Social Explorer Map: Income Inequality by Race located on your student website: • Select 1 racial group from the list below: o African American o Asian American o Arab American o Hispanic American/Latino o White/Caucasian • Write a 250- to 350-word summary of the economic, social, and political standings of that group. Use additional resources if necessary, from the University Library or your textbooks. I chose to write a summary of the economic
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Annotated Bibliography Primary Source: Captain James Cook is a British explorer who visited six out of seven continents in 3 voyages. James mapped the lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in great detail and on a scale that has never been seen. While he was on his voyage he surveyed and named the features, and recorded the islands and coastlines on a European map for the first time. He shows a combination of seamship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage
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embraced Christianity, but their enemy, Lapu-Lapu was not. Humabon wanted Magellan to kill Lapu-Lapu while Magellan wanted to convert Lapu-Lapu into Christianity. On April 17, 1521, Magellan sailed to Mactan and ensuing battle killed Magellan by the natives lead by Lapu-Lapu. Out of the five ships and more than 300 men who left on the Magellan expedition in 1519, only one ship (the Victoria) and 18 men returned to Seville, Spain on September 6, 1522. Nevertheless, the said expedition was considered historic
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hunters. Following the extinction of mammoths and other big game prey, the native people were able to adapt to environmental and social fluctuations and developed a hunter-gatherer culture. Native Americans had thriving communities with highly sophisticated political, economic and social systems that emerged and were practiced. The Spanish were the first Europeans to actively pursue exploiting the New World. European explorer nations of Spain, Britain, France and Holland were looking for a western
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You can open it from the Start menu, you can open it from the desktop or the File Explorer, you can search for it from the search bar and then open it, or you can pin it to the taskbar and open it from there. However, that isn’t enough… Or so Microsoft thought. Especially for the keyboard-pro people who prefer to do every task with the
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Christopher Columbus- An italian explorer, Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas. Actually looking for a quicker way to get to the East Indies, Christopher Columbus tried to find a sponsor for his voyage. After being denied from the King of Portugal multiple times, he finally made a deal with Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. After crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean, Columbus came across the West Indies, instead of the East. He was cruel to the natives and enslaved some for their wealth
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