Why are we driving cars and using cell phones, while people of Papua New Guinea are using sticks and stones to chop down a tree and hunt?! It’s all because of our geographical inequality. Our world is so unequal depending on where you are in the world. People in Eurasia got the best climate to grow wheat. What does wheat have to do with inequality? Wheat won't grow in Papua New Guinea! Wheat grows in humid climates and takes little effort to grow and farm. Wheat is an easy crop to harvest and grow, not to mention it takes very few people to go out, collect and regrow it again. Not to mention that wheat can be stored for 7-8 months. People of Papua New Guinea live in a tropical and very wet climate, not only that, but the ground is to dense to plant wheat. That means People of Papua New Guinea can’t get wheat. Instead they have to go out and hunt for their food. One type of food that they eat, is called the Sago …show more content…
Iron was mined and they needed better tools and weapons. Eurasia had a perfect climate for keeping a hot fire (over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit ). It took time and many failed attempts, to actually forge steel. Then to turn it into tools and swords was another challenge. Spain mastered the sword, light weight long swords with heavy counterweight pommels. Spain also made steel plate armor for battle. The Spanish sailed to South America to eliminate the Incas to find “Eldorado,” City of Gold. They kinda did, the Incas had only gold as their material. Gold was common to them so they made almost everything of of gold. While the Spanish had steel swords and armor. The Incas had gold and lots of it, but gold was too brittle to make swords and armor out of it. The Incas were an army of thousands, and Spanish only hundreds on horseback and steel. The Spanish conquered the Incas because of how powerful steel was, they also had a little help from diseases, but that’ll be covered
Technological advancement greatly favored the Spanish. As mentioned before, the Spaniards where fighting to kill, so on all fronts they where better equipped. They came in on well-built ships, equipped with cannons. They carried iron swords and shields rather than spears and wooden shields of the Aztecs.
Spanish swords were fast and easy to swing around. They could stab and do deadly damage. The Aztecs didn’t have steel, so their shields and armor were not made to withstand the sword. Aztec war clubs were very sharp, as they were made from obsidian, but so heavy that a warrior needed to use both hands to swing it, and was not as strong as Spanish steel. Cortes brought horses, which easily outran Aztec foot soldiers. The gun was the biggest advantage that the Spanish had. According to one source, when Moctezuma had sent ambassadors to greet the Aztecs, Cortes fired his guns to impress them, and the ambassadors leaped into the sea from the shock of seeing the gun. The Aztecs had slings and spears, which could travel long distances and were very accurate, but were not as deadly as guns, which could fire fast and accurate with deadly results. Because Cortes brought these weapons, he is the reason the Aztec empire
2. What factors contributed to the defeat of the Aztecs and Incas by European forces? All these factors , in varying degrees , but all together, contributed to the conquest of the Aztec Empire , making it possible. Although one of the factors that stood out was that the contact between these two peoples ( Europeans and Aztecs ), the European settlers learned to understand the Aztec people, while they did the same, and taking advantage of this situation , it was made possible such achievement
They made a loud clamor as they marched. this quote shows they had better weapons than the Aztec Empire, because the Aztec Empire only has weapons to kill animals and the occasional person. “For their coats of mail and their weapons clashed and rattled. Some of them were dressed in glistening iron from head to foot; they terrified everyone who saw them.” The spaniards were very intimidating to the Aztec empires eye, as is states in the text they were terrified, which they actually really felt. While this reason shows why the spanish won there is also another reason, and this reason states that the Aztec Empire got Sick from all the diseases that the spaniards brought over to the new world. The spaniards had brought over all kinds of diseases that the Aztec empire was not immune to. “But
The Aztecs may have been strong militarily when it was just them against the other Native American tribes, but they were no match against the might of the Spanish army. Europe as a whole was more technologically advanced than the Native Americans. As stated by Aztec History, “The tactics of the Spanish army certainly played a role...Cortes used clever tactics which brought about the fall of the Aztec Empire.” The quote is mainly saying that the Spanish army used warfare in a different way than the Aztecs. The Aztecs just weren’t used to the foreign way of
American Samoa would be a perfect location for an open market. The weather is warm and tropical with an average temperature of 87 degrees fahrenheit. American Samoa has a population of 54,157 people. I can set up my market anywhere that seems like a good location. My open market can sell goods grown locally on the island or import goods that most likely haven’t been owned by local people such as raw materials like sugar and salt etc.
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Guatemala’s culture is a unique product of Native American ways and a strong Spanish colonial heritage. About half of Guatemala’s population is mestizo (known in Guatemala as ladino), people of mixed European and indigenous ancestry. Ladino culture is dominant in urban areas, and is heavily influenced by European and North American trends. Unlike many Latin American countries, Guatemala still has a large indigenous population, the Maya, which has retained a distinct identity. Deeply rooted in the rural highlands of Guatemala, many indigenous people speak a Mayan language, follow traditional religious and village customs, and continue a rich tradition in textiles and other crafts. The two cultures
1. Patagonia uses personnel and cultural control to apply this strategy. For personnel control, the company hires people who are as passionate about environment as Yvon.
Australian-Indonesian relations are the foreign relations between the two countries, whether economically, politically, legally or socially. Australian-Indonesian relations involve an interaction in foreign policies between the two nations (Wolfsohn, 1951, p. 68). As long as Indonesia is Australia 's closest and largest neighbor, they are bound to have great international relations. These relations began as early as the 17th century and had only become enhanced with time (Daly, 2003, p. 397). The relationship has been defined by a conjoint growth trade of up to $14 between the years 2011-2012 which reports an increase from the previous economic year (Mark, 2012, p.402). These countries are members of various trade deals such as the ASEAN Regional Forum in addition to having close ties with education, defense, and leadership. Australia 's relationship with Indonesia is crucial, and lack of such could severely bruise the economy, and hence they need to keep united by ensuring the use of widespread media with beneficial input. Australia interacts with Indonesia in a way such as sporting activity, tourism, education, economic policies, youth exchange programs, cultures and above all their diplomacy (Okamoto, 2010, p.241).
America is considered a melting pot of different ethnic groups. By today’s standard, “American culture” is the result of a variety of races integrating their own cultural beliefs into American society. Throughout the years, the United States has seen a massive increase of people migrating from Asian countries; “they make up 3.6 percent of the U.S. population, a 199 percent increase from 1980 when they constituted only 1.5 percent of the population” (Ng). Like other immigrants, Asians come here in order to seek a better life and experience civil liberties. According to statistics, “Filipino Americans today make up the second largest Asian Pacific American (APA) group in the country” (Aquino). Filipinos alongside
Samoan culture plays a large part in the lives of those with Samoan heritage. Samoan culture is kept strong in a Samoan house hold by keeping the culture alive. This is done by keeping family unity, the art of traditional tattooing, and eating traditional foods and cooking traditional ways.
In the past few years, Macau has become an international destination. The liberation of gaming license had bought about large foreign investments and facilities infrastructure. Macau, a sparkling metropolis at night, is home to thousands of overseas Filipino workers . One of its eye-catching characteristics is certainly its large Filipino community. Filipinos represent the second largest group of non-resident workers in Macau after mainland Chinese. It also becomes abundantly clear that these people are mostly found working in lower paid jobs. Maybe because the most compelling advantages the Philippines has over any Asian country, is the fact that Filipinos are competent and highly-educated. However, more
* Increasing the supply: The resort could provide more palapas so that more quests can have opportunity to enjoy it. However I assume that there could be a limitation of installing palapas by government (such as not to damage the nature). There is no information regarding government’s permission. If so, they should offer alternatives for customers. The alternatives could be canopies or beach umbrellas. However, these should be provided free.
It has three major island groups which are the Luzon, the largest island and where the capital is located; Visayan, and Mindanao. Eleven islands make up 94 percent of the Philippine landmass, and two of these--Luzon and Mindanao--measure 105,000 and 95,000 square kilometers, respectively. They, together with the cluster of the Visayan Islands that separate them, represent the three principal regions of the archipelago (many scattered islands in a large body of water) that are identified by the three stars on the Philippine flag.