Essays on Spanish Rule

Introduction

Pre-Spanish Era Religious Practices Political Structure Material Culture Spanish Occupation Material Culture

The Culture after the Spanish Conquest

Religious Influence of the Catholic Spanish and the Remaining Ethnic Groups Influences of the Protestant Church Religious Fighting between the Roman Catholic and Protestant Church Current Economic and Cultural Development Cultural Development Introduction Argentina is considered by Calvert, Donghi and Eidt (2016) as the eighth largest country in the world but is considered to be only third within Latin America (Buenos, 2014). The reason for this is that the land area of Argentina with 2.78 million square kilometers is larger than Mexico and the Texas state combined ( ...

Introduction

The shared history between America and Mexico can be dated back during the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836, and the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. As a result, several treaties had been signed in culminating differences between the two nations. For example, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Gadsden Purchase comprise some of the agreements made between the two nations. In the 19th century, America claimed Louisiana as part of its territory and was rightfully acquired during the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. These confrontations resulted into conflict as Spain opposed to the America's claim, stipulating that the western boundaries ...

Members of missionary orders spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans in the 16th century. Who were these missionaries? Whose side were they on European or the American original peoples and why? Elaborate and provide examples. In the 16th century, there were a number of missionaries who spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans. The time of the age of exploration, the Europeans realized that there are many people with different cultures especially in America. This is what caused missionaries to be sent in order to spread Christianity. Most the missionaries were sent by some of the countries that ...

Cuba is the largest nation in the Caribbean. Cuba is located approximately ninety miles from the southern coast of Florida. Cuba has been the subject of a number of struggles in its history. Cuba was the final colony that gained independence from Spanish rule. The initial struggle for independence from Spanish rule in Cuba imitated in 1868. Thirty years afterwards, when the U.S. military intervened in the Spanish American War, Cuba gained its independence in 1898. Cuba’s Independence was established by the Treaty of Paris, which was conceded subsequent to a three year period (Vanderbush 57). The perspective of CIA ( ...

Three Key Factors in Morocco Independence

Kingdom of Morocco achieved independence from France on 2 March, 1956 after more than forty years of French and Spanish rule as northern third of the country and Western Sahara was controlled by Spain. There were many contributory factors in achieving the independence, however, three key factors played a major role in Morocco Independence. These key factors shall be discussed in the essay. French and Spanish colonial administrations brought more than half a million skilled European to Morocco with heavy influx of money and made progress in the fields of education, health and transport. However, there was constant resistance to ...

How Spain established a mercantilist economic control over its colonies?

The Spanish in America is a better example explaining how the mercantilism was established. The economic regulation ensured massive wealthy accumulation for the country among its colonies. The theory prohibited ships from abroad from accessing the Spanish colonial ports and there was no any goods movement to the colonies or take away gold from the Spanish merchants without a special permit. This made Spain the benefit as an intermediary. Spain prohibited the process of manufacturing in specific colonies so that they became a destiny for its imports. Before 1765, Spain limited the channeling of all its trade on one port.

What major events led to the gradual decline of Spanish rule militarily, politically, economically, and ideologically?

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Spanish colonization was an unbalanced mix of saints and sinners. In the name of God, Spanish explorers, conquistadors and colonists raped, pillaged and destroyed people, land, and cities. Justified by divine providence, Spanish colonization became one of the bloodiest and most cruel encroachments in American History. The document that gave way to these Godless pursuits was the Requerimiento (Requirement) written in 1510 by the Council of Castile. It was read in Latin to the Indians with no interpreters present; Some times it was even delivered from shipboard to an empty beach, justifying the behaviors of Spanish invaders. The document ...

Latin American History: Tupac Amaru

Tupac Amaru descended from a royal family who had ruled the Inca Empire in Peru between the 15th and 16th century. The Incas was the name an empire that had stretched from present day Ecuador to parts of Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. As a result of its wide coverage, the Inca Empire has been described as the largest in the history of the Pre-Columbian America. The empires center of origin was at a place known as Cusco. This center acted as its capital and base of operations. In the year 1531, the Spanish people started to arrive in the ...

In 1853, Japan was forced to sign some unequal treaties when Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay with his American “gun-boat diplomacy” (Hagan, 1973). The American “gun-boat” diplomacy entails a “sign or show force” policy. The unequal treaties allowed Western powers one-sided economic benefits in the country. The West was granted extra-territoriality and control over tariffs. Besides that, Japan was treated by the West just like any other Asian country because of racism prevalent in the West (McClintock, 1995). Being run by warrior dynasties, the West has greatly embarrassed Japan. Japan wanted to gain independence from the ...

Netherlands Immigration

The historical background of a country plays an integral role in shaping the government’s activities in a country and the culture of the people. Netherlands as a country is not an exception in respect to this phenomenon. In fact, Netherlands is acknowledged in history as the first country to have a parliament through an election process. Apart from being associated with other affiliations, Netherlands is one of the founding member states of the European Union, World Trade Organization and the NATO. The headquarters of various Organizations such as Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and international courts such as the International Court of Justice, ...