Both mestizos and free people of color were barred from serving in bureaucracies of the church, state, or military. ... "Designations, either colorful or derogatory, that defined the degree of racial mixture, helped to maintain a sullen resentment and a sense of ethnic inferiority." ... "The antagonism and bitter feelings between American Creoles and those Spaniards born in the Iberian Peninsula, who came to Latin America, helped ignite the emotional tinderbox that flared in 1810." ... He led Mexico to independence from Spain in 1821. ... In the South, Jose de San Martin rallied Argentinean fo...

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Many perished from small pox, a disease brought over by the Spanish, and others fled for the mountains. ... Some men even took Indian women as wives since there were so few Spanish women (Anderson 13). ... This helped improve the conditions of the colonists. ... He encouraged the cultivation of coffee and gave free land grants to would-be coffee growers. This helped the economy prosper but also created coffee barons. ...

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Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean in 1492, helped to influence new cultures, beliefs and lifestyles; this originated the Columbian Exchange. ... Before 1492, the Irish, Spanish, and Swiss didn't eat the same things they eat now. ... It didn't take long after the horse was introduced to the New World by Spanish conquistadors for the Indian society to appreciate the strange beast and value the things it could do. ... Around the 1700's, the Comanche emerged, which broke free from the Shoshone in order to adapt a new nomadic lifestyle made possible only by the horse. ... ...

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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 the belief that they were innocent children of God. ... Although slavery founded the roots of today's free trade and basis for industrial enhancements, it cost a lot; suffer,...

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In Wisconsin Chippewa tribe children learn the language of their ancestors with the help of computers. ... In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in search of a sea route to Asia. ... Spanish settlers arrived in North America in the early sixteenth century. ... Europeans thought that the majority of new lands were free. ... The Council dealt with issues common to all the tribes, but had no right to interfere in the way the free and equal tribes organized their daily lives. ...

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