Rigveda Research Paper

They believed the natives were nothing more than savages and were only good enough to be slaves. Las Casas didn’t like this. He said that the “Spaniards, with their cruelty and execrable work, have depopulated and made desolate the great continent.” For forty years more than “twelve million persons, men and women and children, have perished unjustly and though tranny by the infernal deeds and tyranny of the Christians.” The only reason why the Spaniards “killed and destroyed such infinite numbers of souls is solely because they have made gold their ultimate aim, seeking to load themselves with riches in the shortest time.” They took everything away from the natives, enslaved them and killed those who did not obey them. Everything he said about the Spaniards were completely true. They were just money hungry bullies took advantage of the Indians because the Indians thought they came from the heavens and refused to harm them. And that is just

Natives were humiliated and dehumanized. Spaniards did not see the huge genocide that was going on , they just saw the land they was stealing from the natives and the money they were getting out of it. Time past and more and more settled in what now is called the United States. The Englishmen have settled near the east coast when coming to the Americas. English settlements kept growing so they needed to wipe out the natives out to have the land. “Not able to enslave the Indians, and not able to live with them, the English decided to exterminate them” (page, 19). The Indians learned that Europeans were and will always be stronger than them. They learned that European weapons will always be more powerful then whatever they made. Europeans had guns, Indians had spares. Europeans were devious and trick Indians to turn to each other. Tribes were tricked by these masterminds and started conflicted with each other and battles. The Europeans had mass murdered the native Americans with no sympathy. The native Americans could not do anything about it so they had to listen to the European due to the fact they were more powerful. As for the Englishmen they used any type of excuse to get into war. Europeans called native Americans Indians because when Columbus arrived in America he believed that he was in India so he thought they were Indians, its in politically incorrect but calling them Indians is okay because they truly traveled from Asia to America

The main ideas of chapter one was the conquest and exploration of the early America’s by the spaniards. Throughout the chapter, it explains the difficulties that the spanish explorers faced when attempting to conquer new lands. The primary problem the explorers faced was with the current inhabitants of the lands they wanted to conquer, especially with the cultural differences between populations. On article that exemplifies the cultural differences between the Native Americans and the Spanish Explorers is the third-person biographical narrative called “The Collision of Cultures.” The narrative gives the reader insight on what the indians and the explorers pre-judgement of one another, based off of what the parties believed with their religion and moral. This article’s reader would be

The attitude of the Spanish to the people living in the New World was that they were uncivilized and heathen. The natives were abused, oppressed, exploited, and ill treated by the Spanish Conquistadors. The Indians lost their freedom, their rights, their culture and religion. It’s truly shocking

It held many struggles and disagreements, which lead to many retaliations, from both the Indians and the settlers. The Indians had been alliances with the white men until the massacre, which stated the settlers betrayal to all tribes.

The Pilgrims brushed their lips against the land of Cape Cod and thanked their Lord when the furious storm released them from its’ fury. The sea troubles left them far from home with no warm welcomes. After scrutinizing the bare land they had located barbarian-like aliens. They formed their judgments and ideas about their companions on Cape Cod. Seeking gold and silver the Spaniards explored unfamiliar territory. Although, they did not discover their hidden treasures they did stumble upon unfamiliar Native American cultures they did not understand. Their misunderstandings led to the formation of judgements towards the Native Americans.   Although both “Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford and “La Relacion” by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca discuss early settlers and attitudes toward native peoples.  Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s attitude toward Native Americans reveals a sense of relief to discover friendship among an island. While, William Bradford displays a fearful and belittling tone.

California was unsettled until Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1824. After that, Mexico controlled California. Soon there started to be trading in California (Alchin). Lewis and Clark were in California before the Gold Rush happened, during their expedition. While in California, they discovered a new plant called the California Rhododendron (“Lewis and Clark”). American Indians were in California during this time as well. They were not treated well on any means during the 1800s. When the Gold Rush did happen, they participated in the mining. Then the whites started using them for labor in the mines after they saw how hard they could work (Alchin).

It was an attempt from the white man to steal the native’s land and to simply exterminate all Native Americans. The stats are not clear but historians estimate that a total of around 70 million natives were killed throughout the native American Genocide. Although the number is great, the life span of the genocide was much longer than others. The Native American Genocide lasted an average human's lifetime. It lasted for about 100 years. The white man took their land, killed their food source, and forced them to work in labor camps. Before these illegal immigrants began to take over their land, the natives had multiple tribes covering the entire country; even spilling into Canada. After the genocide was over, the Native’s land was reduced to small reservations in only a few states in America. It is very sad because today one of the big discussions in today’s politics is the topic of illegal immigration. When really the people of America today are the true Illegal Immigrants. They came to America hundreds of years ago and instantly claimed that this land was theirs. Without any discussion of consent from the Natives. They forced they Natives out of their homes, Raped their women, killed their babies, starved their men, and killed their food source. The United States today tries to keep the Native American genocide underneath the radar. They do this because they don’t want to give people of America more

From the very moment that the Europeans stepped on American soil, they displayed their extraordinary military power and savage outlook towards the native peoples. Their experience with civilized society with access to plenty of firepower gives them an advantage when it comes to military attacks, and when they use this against the Native Americans, it is almost unfair. They attack the Native Americans immediately when they step foot on US soil, and kill them as if they are trophy hunting. Barry Lopez, in The Rediscovery of North America, states about the barbaric Spanish attacks on Native Americans, “The Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half” (5). This quote shows how much power the colonists held over the Native American and how their doom was essentially inevitable. Killing the Native Americans was practically a hobby for the colonists at this point. The countless battles and land that they gained from the Native Americans also symbolized their power, such as when the Spaniards invaded the town of Acoma. They

To better understand the conflict between the Europeans and the Native Americans, one must closely examine the state of Europe’s economy at the time. Europe struggled with difficult conditions. This included poverty, violence and diseases like typhus, smallpox, influenza and measles. There were widespread famines which caused the prices of products to vary and made life very difficult in Europe. Street crimes and violence were prevalent in cities: “Other eruption of bizarre torture, murder, and ritual cannibalism were not uncommon”.2 Europeans

The Europeans had begun conquering the land the natives. An example is the Spanish, Cortes and his followers had taken land in Mexico. They Spaniards and massacred Aztec as they left Tenochtitlin according to Crossroads and Cultures (563). The book, Broken Spears, provided real accounts of the Spanish conquering through Mexico. Within the book, mentioned was the Spanish attacking villages when they were most vulnerable (ex sleeping, or traditional celebrations). This had changed the America’s peaceful societies into ones that fear for their lives. The accounts mentioned in the book stated that, “They attacked the man who was drumming and cut off his arms. Then they cut off his head, and it rolled across the floor” (pg 67). This type of unjustifiable murders will occur for a long period of time. This type of brutal killings happened throughout America’s by the European’s changing the way of life for the natives.

In early 1848, cries of gold findings flooded the West. White settlers flooded the area like a hurricane in search of riches never seen before to the common man. It was the single greatest migration of people in a shortest amount of time. The gold rush was a very dark period in American history and it shouldn’t be celebrated; the Native American’s were slaughtered in American thirst for gold Explosions of violence from both natives and settlers were common in this environment of prejudice and greed. Between 1850 and 1890 eighty percent of the total number of Native Americans in California died due to murder and massacre, disease, starvation, and forced migration from their native lands. The destruction of the culture and lives of the people native to California and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Greed changed the morals and values of the miners and Americans alike in the Gold Rush. The gold rush brought riches and highlighted racism of white Americans, while systematically destroying Native Americans in that region.

With intentions of spreading religion and getting rich off of any gold they could get their hands on, the conquistadors’ first wanted to getting along with the indian tribes living there currently. Tensions started to increase when communication was almost impossible due to language barriers. The conquistadors were frustrated they couldn’t just trade with the tribes and receive gold in return. The tribes were confused and scared, unsure of who these new people were and what they

The Spanish authorities showed their superiority to forced native people, that had lived and adored their beliefs of centuries to leave their religions, the adoption of Christianity and pay tribute to the Spanish lords. Every that their possessed land and their spirituality were destroyed along with the spiritual objects with which their ceremonies had always been performed. For generations were oppressed, and a religious leader named Pop organized a revolt by Native Americans against a Spanish. He offered liberation and told them they will free from the labor they performed for the religious and the

India gave the world Mahavira and Buddha. They were similar by teaching people to have morals, love, and respecting one another. Mahavira was born as a son to a warrior chief and spent 12 years as a holy wanderer to spread Jainism which he founded. Jainism was about self control, non violent, and that all object whether living or not have souls. Mahavira also adopted the karma philosophy from the Brahman society. Buddha spread his teachings of Buddhism in northeastern part of India. Buddhism and Jainism both teach about doing good deed and karma would have effect on those who do bad: how ever rebirth after death in Buddhism will have one of the five realms depending on how the person lived.