The mining of silver in Colonial Spanish America and gold mining in Colonial Portuguese America dominated the international commerce and economic markets of the world for many centuries. The factors that played key role in extraction, production and transportation of silver in Colonial Spanish America and gold in Colonial Portuguese America gives us an understanding of why and when silver monopolized the European markets and then later declined in value giving gold a boost to become a dominant method of exchange and how it impacted the lives of mine workers. ... Many natives who resisted th...

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For the other Latin American countries Spain's influence and presence was not welcomed at all. ... And to obtain the greatest amount of wealth possible it was necessary to mine the metals as well as war, steal, and trade in order to secure your wealth and class position. ... In the Requerimiento authored and applied in 1514 by King Charles I of Spain, it was written if the Indians did not comply to the demands placed upon them that " we will enter your land against you with force and make war in every place you to the Yoke and authority of the Church and Their Highnesses. ... In south...

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The events of the Haitian Revolution helped re-shape the country from the political system they had before, and it introduced new leaders who would become similar to those in the Spanish American Wars. ... During the Spanish American wars of independence, 1808-1833, the term caudillo began being used to describe political leaders. ... The remaining Spanish territories fell to San Martín's forces, but by 1825 all of Spanish America had won political independence. ... Similarly to those leaders in the Spanish American wars of independence, the Haitian leaders had characteristics that rep...

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(Cortés) While the motivations of the Spanish for colonizing the Americas were different than the English, it is clear to see that Spain and England had the greatest impact and success in their colonization efforts. The bearing of Spanish colonization is characterized mostly by the efforts of converting Native Americans into Christians and the impact, although not positive, of spreading disease to the people of the Americas. ... The negative impact that the Spanish had during their colonization of the Americas was disease. ... Nonetheless, the Spanish missionaries of Father Junipero...

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Jamaica belongs to a group of islands created by the summits of a submerged mountain range connecting Central America to present day Venezuela. ... The Spanish Occupation (1494-1655) During his second voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus learned from the natives of Cuba of an island lying to the south rich with gold. ... In response, the Spanish introduced enslaved blacks brought from Spain, and these were later supplemented by slaves brought directly from Africa. ... Despite Spanish efforts to maintain Jamaica and other colonies, by the mid 1600s the Spanish empire was in v...

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As another example, Jesuits were big production empires with the help of slavery, they were the largest land holders in America, and the Spanish were the largest owner of slaves. ... "7 This war contributes to the market of slavery trade, creates a culture difference in African war through violence, and influencing slavery. ... African slaves were turned into commodities, from the certain jobs they are needed for and the European/Spanish desire in quality of slave units. ... Leading to America's high demand for slavery. ... Sources in Africa gathered slaves for the market, using war,...

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The Haitian, Mexican, and most Latin American revolutions were inspired by the Enlightenment ideas. These ideas encouraged the Americans of revolting against the English (1783) in order to become a nation. ... Later came the Mexican War of Independence with Father Miguel Hidalgo, which lasted from 1810 to 1821. ... The priest known as Miguel Hidalgo disagreed with the ways that the kingdom of Spain treated his fellow indigenous. ... After all the riots and wars, plantations, agricultural fields, and mines were destroyed. ...

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The more slaves they captured meant the more horses and guns they possess and the more military dominance resulted in more successful wars guaranteed large supplies of slaves. ... They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... The belief was strong among the first missionaries [who] wanted to protect the new believers at any cost from contact with the, in their eyes, godless Spanish colonists." ... After the discovery of Americas, The emperor of Spain, King Charles V declared Indians as subjects of Spain due...

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However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. ... By doing so he declared that Caliban was the representation of "the aboriginal American". ... Caliban was no longer just an American Indian, he also became the reflections of the African slave and the European wild man; or the blend if several American Indian types. ... Prospero, they argued, urged his disciples to seek art, beauty, virtue and truth, warning them against materialism and utilitarianism: he identified those ...

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The early 19th century in America was a time when the country was divided on the issue of slavery. ... David Walker's sediments on white Americans in his writing Appeal were extreme. ... He challenged the notion that Christianity called for peace yet caused much war and degradation; He argued that Spanish conquest brought about death and degradation in the name of God. ... We may ask why would a relatively unknown African writer in America rise up in argument against the former president, according to Walker -to inspire, to bring out the existing intellectual talents of the Africans in Am...

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In Herman Melville's novella, "Benito Cereno," an American ship captain has a surprising encounter with slavery when he boards a vessel largely occupied by blacks. ... Delano's prejudice creates a mindset that blacks simply exist as good-natured, subhuman servants and that Spanish, or whites, are incapable of deception. ... "Benito Cereno" was published in 1856, a time in which slavery was a very controversial subject and only a few years before the Civil War. Perhaps Amasa Delano represents the American outlook on slavery at the time. ... Delano's attitude ...

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With the sudden rise of profitable slave trade, driven by the European need, enslaving enemies became less a consequence of war and more and more of a necessity and reason to start war with neighboring tribes. ... Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. ... Though this was the most popular place, the other seven areas of the continent were used as well, mainly by Spain and Portugal, due to the closeness to the countries and the easy access. ... The trans-Atlantic slave trade made significant declines during the Napoleon...

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Although African American slaves were now introduced to Native American communities, they still used their own prisoners of war as slaves as well. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Spanish explorers brought with them an African slave and came upon a Native American tribe in their travels. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. The Native American slave trade was only in existence until about 1730, after the trade led to a series of d...

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"All is overthrown and destroyed, nothing is left standing," the Spanish soldier Diaz remarked as the once thriving civilization of the Aztecs lay in ruins. ... Since the Aztecs and Incas were so successful, yet they the Europeans destructed them in a heartbeat, one would wonder which civilization would have lasted longer if the Europeans had never discovered North America and South America. ... A civil war or overthrowing of the government might have occurred, resulting in the downfall of the civilization. ...

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With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... Without this diss...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars between the new Fren...

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