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Leon-Portilla based the stories told in this book upon old writings of actual Aztec people who survived the Spanish massacres. The actual authors of the stories told in this book are priests, wise men and regular people who survived the killings. These stories represent the more realistic view of what really happened during the Spanish conquest. Most of the history about the Aztec Empire was based on Spanish accounts of events, but Leon-Portilla used writings from actual survivors to illustrate the true history from the Indians’ point of view.

Miguel Leon-Portilla author of Broken Spears- The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, tells the story of the Spanish conquest over the Aztecs from the Aztec point of view. It is more familiar in history that the Spanish led by Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztecs with a powerful army and established an easy victory all while having intentions to gain power and greed. However, Leon-Portilla focuses on the Aztec Empire and their story. Leon-Portilla does a great job giving readers the real occurrences and events from Aztec members. This paper argues that history must be told from all sides. It is more common to hear about the Spanish conquest

Ramon Gutierrez, the author of book When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away reveals through research and evidence what occurred in New Mexico during 1500-1846. The Spaniards had difficulty submitting the Pueblo Indians, living in New Mexico however it was not an easy task. In addition, the Pueblo Indians are faced with another intruder the Franciscans who claim will save the natives’ souls. This book shows the native perspective and their social lives before and after the Spaniards intrusion into New Mexico. These intruders, the Spaniards and Franciscans, forcibly alter the natives’ culture, marriage, and sexuality, claiming to civilize these savages. These events are easily comprehensible due to the structure of the book. Ramon Gutierrez’ book categorizes the information into three parts making it simpler for people to understand what transpired. The three categories are as follows: the sixteenth century, the seventeenth century, and the eighteenth century.

When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away gives an in-depth history of the Pueblo Indians before and after the Spanish conquest. It describes the forced changes the Spanish brought to the Indians, and also the changes brought to the Spaniards who came to “civilize” the Indians. The author's thesis is that the Pueblo Indians and other Indians were treated cruelly by the Spanish, who justified their crime by claiming they were civilizing an

From sacrifices to worshipping the gods, the Aztecs created a society that surprised and impressed the Spanish conquistadors from 1350-1519. The Aztecs wanted to create a world-class society. Because of strong military and agriculture success, they controlled about 20 million people and sacrificed them to the gods. This caused the Aztec society to be at the peak of its height. Although they were very successful, the truth behind their history is very dark. Does human sacrifice deserve greater emphasis? We should emphasize the three reasons: the terrible scale of sacrifice, please the gods, and the conquistadors.

In the 16th century Spaniards Herman Cortes and Christopher Columbus set out on endeavoring journeys in search of new worlds. Christopher Columbus encountered, in the Caribbean islands, a group of extremely simplistic Native Americans. Herman Cortes however encountered a much more advanced Native American group in Meso America; we formally know this area to be Mexico. In my essay I will be comparing and contrasting several aspects between both of these Native American Civilizations including sophistication, technology, housing, weapons, religion and their reaction to the Spaniards. Letters written by Columbus and Cortes will be used to make these comparisons.

During the Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire the role of the Kuraka was crucial in gaining control over the Andean society. The role of the Kuraka could be thought of as “provincial nobility”[1] whose main job was to control the labor and tribute made and delivered from the natives to the state. In order to do this job the Kurakas had to maintain respect from the natives while maintaining good relations with the colonial state. This could be difficult considering that too much affiliation with the state could lead to a loss of status to the natives, and a loss of respect from the natives would make one useless to the state. “The Indian who broke entirely with his own culture

In this case for our group project, we were informed to relate the story of La Llorona and how does the book So Far From God, author Ana Castillo, relate to each other. In addition, there is a specific character that reminds us who is related to La Llorona. For the people who does not know the story of La Llorona, she had two children and lived a happy life with a dashing husband. However, she starts to realize that her beauty is not being looked upon from her husband. Since knowing she does not get the attention like she use to before, her anger has lead her to throw her two children in a river. Realizing her mistake, she tries to find her childrens. With no sign of them being found, she is found dead at the river. Due to this horrible ending,

In 1510-1554 Francisco Vazquez De Coronado served as governor of an important province in New Spain (Mexico).Coronado searches for the 7 golden cities. Coronado decided to seek his fortune in the new world.De Coronado’s dad was a royal administrator in Granada. Francisco married a woman named Beatriz. The people who sponsored him was Alvar Nuneza Bezade Vaca, and Marcos de Niza. The motive for the exploration of Francisco was to seek his fortune by finding the 7 golden cities and he was expecting to find a lot of gold their so that he may reach his goal. The dates of the explorations was 1535, 1540, 1541, and 1542. The exploration routes were Northern Mexico, Southwestern usa, Arizona, New mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Francisco impacted

*Andrien, Kenneth J. Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture, and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Sonqo, Peru, the subject of Allen’s ethnography, is in sharp contrast to Felicidade Eterna as the changes seen and discussed are recent. Sonqo had an extremely strong culture, one that seemed impenetrable to unwanted change caused by outside forces. The people of Sonqo, the Runakuna, hated the outsiders, the Mistikuna, and a common theme throughout the ethnography is the Runakuna existing in isolation from the Mistikuna. Maintaining isolation was a necessity as “[t]he Incas’ demands for cultural purity are stringent” (Allen 2002:186). Their culture was incredibly strong, characterized by ancient rituals such as the passing of the coca, the prevalence of reciprocity, the worship of the Tirakuna, and more unique traditions that seemed so well-established that their disappearance was doubtful. The Runakuna tried to resist the outside forces (Allen 2002:186), but as will be seen, these forces were too strong and change was inevitable.

Even from our own cultural perspective of the last half of the 20th Century, we have cast a different light on some artifacts of our progress such as the long-term effect of the imposition of the United Fruit Company in the region described in the book or the encounter between Francisco Pizarro and the Inca emperor Athualpa in the Andean highlands.

Chasteen’s decision to title his book Born in Blood and Fire may at first appear to be a gross generalization of Latin America’s incredibly unique and diverse history. With hundreds of languages spoken by the indigenous tribes, each with their own unique culture and lifestyles, as well as people descended from African slaves, European colonists, or any combination of the three, one might believe Chasteen’s title to be inappropriate. Latin America as we know it today, however, was truly born in blood and fire -- colonization and genocide at the hands of European capitalists forms the basis of a contemporary, unified Latin American history, one in which almost every Latin American nation has since had a similar path. European conquest was a shared

This book comes in the context of a comprehensive study of one of the most important civilizations of Central America and Mexico: the civilization of the Mayan people; no other culture in the New World has aroused such intense interest or formed such a number of mysteries as the ancient Mayan civilization that we may have heard from Through the media or we have seen the documentary programs on some of the satellite channels deployed in our world today.

Trinidad, an island ravaged by colonialism, leaving its imprints on many, notwithstanding our prized writer, V.S. Naipaul. Miguel Street, published in 1959, is a collection of short stories about a fictional street in Trinidad and its occupants during the 1940’s. Each chapter focuses on a character and the experience had with the protagonist, a young boy. The British flooded the island with English literature and education, leaving many of the islanders lost in the sea of the forced external culture. Naipaul captures the effects of this colonialism, especially so in chapter six. This chapter is focused around a man, known as B. Wordsworth, who speaks proper English and dresses well. The story shows us, as Beck states, “the colonized subject responding to the English literary canon thrust upon him by colonial education and an imposed foreign culture.”