Chapter 14

World History ll, Andrews

January 20, 2019

Strayer ch. 14

In this chapter I learned about who in Europe conquered who in the Americas. Seeing how they tricked over from the other side of the world and slowly made us a part of them. What kicked this all off was when Christopher columbus was sponsored by the Spanish, this made it possible for him to get to the Americas in the first place. After this time the spanished seemed to control a great part of south and North America. It is a bit easy to see this when we hear South Americans speak Spanish, but they were not the only ones to settle there, the Portuguese also conquered a huge part of South America to what is known today as Brazil. Now why is it that we speak english instead of Spanish if they took up most of the land in the Americas? Well because the British English speaking folk landed in what we know as part of Canada and from there the British bought out the Spanish. Not only were the British in Canada but the French had also landed there and even parts of the US, which I am sure most people had no idea of. The Americas were not the only lands getting conquered and bought off,  places like New Zealand and Australia and all those other islands had also been taken over not by the Spanish or English but by the Dutch Empire. All this conquering was not easy, the conquistadors did not just get the land like magic. For example Hernan Cortes the Spanish conquistador that was fighting the Aztec for the Mexicans Land. It wasn’t all fighting for these conquistadors, since they brought illnesses with them like the Black Death which helped whip out the enemy

Chapter 13

HST 1010-06/1010-07/2010-07

Patricia Andrews

01/13/2019

Chapter 13

In this chapter we learned about the close to home conquest. The Spanish conquest done by Hernan Cortes. Which like the Columbus conquest brought with him a variety of goods from the Euro-Asia but along side with that also brought diseases like the Black Death. During this time sir Cortes allied with a local Nahua from Mexico. She had been given to Cortez along with 20 other slaves, by the people of Tabasco. This Nahua girl by the name of Mallinali or Dona Marina then became Cortes’s trusted Interpreter and also the mother of his first son. This son Martin was then the first of his kind, which was named Mestizo. Mestizo is the name referring to people who are native and European. Along with the new coming Mestizo generations, there was also another group of people being distinguished. They were known as the Peninsulares, whom were known to be of the highest class Spanish folk that came to the new world. Not only was Mexico growing but a whole lot of other places in Latin America were expanding, not just because of the Spanish but other European groups as well. It is important to remember that when the sea roads were developed the Portuguese had worked very closely with the African tribes, helping them transport goods and helping them expand their slave business. With that in mind when the Portuguese came to Latin America they brought with them a social class known as the mulattoes, who were Portuguese and African mixed.

Done!

We really out here.