discovered it when there was already people there! Instead‚ it is possible to say that he "laid claim" to it for Spain. There were many other famous explorers other than Columbus. Some of them include Lief Ericson who discovered Newfoundland‚ Amerigo Vespucci who discovered South America and the West Indies‚ Vasco de Balboa who discovered the Pacific Ocean‚ Hernando Cortez who discovered Mexico and consequently wiped out an entire civilization known as the Aztecs. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered
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was the great explorer that Columbus Day portrays him as‚ then he would have at least realized that the land he discovered was not Asia but instead America. When Columbus died‚ he thought that he went to Asia even though an acquaintance of his‚ Amerigo Vespucci‚ had already realized that the land Columbus went to was not Asia but the New World.
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Topic: The early Spanish settlers and their impact on the indigineous people in the 16th century. Theme: Old World Diseases and not merely the Encomienda System led to the native Indians being destroyed in the Caribbean by the middle 16th Century. Name: Aaliyah Gentles Territory: Jamaica Name of School: Hampton School Candidate Number: Date of Submission: Subject: History Introduction Scholars and historians have found evidence that Columbus has researched the
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healers in more ancient cultures and in the new world this continued to be true. The importance of women in medicine also was also connected to another more unique aspect of medicine in the Americas‚ the importance of childbirth. One explorer Amerigo Vespucci described how casually women gave birth in the Americas‚ “They are very prolific in bearing children‚ and in
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History Paper Who discovered America? By: Deanne Mastrocola Why is it that American culture today attributes its geographic discovery to a man named Christopher Columbus? Could it be that he was the first European to claim this land as part of an Imperialistic expansion or is it merely out of convenience for the history books? It is known that the American continent was populated by 1000 AD which is long before settlements by Viking fisherman and even longer before the arrival of Columbus
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Before the age of exploration‚ the Europeans did not know what lay beyond Cape Non (Cape Chaunar) on the African coast‚ and whether it was possible to return once it was crossed. Hence‚ the overland Silk Road and the Spice Trade Routes are the extensive interconnected network of trade routes to the world. However‚ the economically important Silk Road and Spice Trade Routes were blocked by the Ottoman Empire by 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire‚ spurring exploration motivated initially by
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CHAPTER 2 : EXPLORING THE AMERICAS VOCABULARY 1. CRUSADES – A series of 9 conflicts between Christians and __________________________ between 1095 and 1291 for control of the “Holy Land‚” or ________________________. These conflicts brought western Europeans into contact with the Middle East‚ as well as into contact with Arab merchants and ________________________ goods from as far away as India and China. 2. MARCO POLO – A _______________________________ adventurer from Venice‚ Italy
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Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures 1. The three major Pre-Colombian American societies were the Mayans‚ Incas‚ and Aztecs. Brinkley describes their political structures and economies just as advanced and flourishing as the Europeans at the time. These three American societies created roads‚ written language‚ an accurate calendar‚ and even medical systems. 2. The Spanish conquistadors conquered both the Incas and the Aztecs. 3. The North American tribes differed from the Incas‚ Mayans‚ and Aztecs
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Daniel Boone: Frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap and led settlers into Kentucky and Tennessee William Bradford: Second governor of Plymouth‚ served 30 years; wrote History of Plymouth Plantation Henry Clay: Leading War Hawk representing Kentucky Ralph Waldo Emerson: Served as a Unitarian minister for 6 years and developed his own religion called transcendentalism Patrick Henry: Famous patriot known for the declaration “Give me liberty or give me death”
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Who really created or discovered the Americas? Many believe Colombus‚ many believe Lewis and Clark‚ some believe the Indians or Natives. Whichever the reader does believe is besides the point when The Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World written by the the anthropologist‚ Jack Weatherford goes in depth about the huge effect Indians have put on our cultural‚ societal‚ political practices as well as many agricultural products may not have been produced without the knowledge
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