Howard Zinn was a remarkable historian and writer, as well as a professor at Boston University. This book presents a different perspective than most on American history, namely, that of regular people. Because of that, it provides a fresh look at history from the point of view of those who are not always considered in sweeping summaries of U.
Answers may be typed or hand-written, but must be in my possession either physically or online by the first day of school. According to Zinn, how is Columbus portrayed in traditional history textbooks? What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish expeditions in the Caribbean? What were encomiendas? Traditional history books emphasized the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers. Zinn's basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot Morison's book is that Morison covered Columbus' cruelty, and de-emphasized his story of genocide.
What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish expeditions in the Caribbean? Bartolome de las Cases brings up the issue that t otal control led to total cruelty.
Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples. Columbus used gold to oppress indigenous people. Gold was his material that he could govern the Arawak Indians. What was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians? The ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians was death. Columbus and his followers fell upon an Indian settlement, killed fifteen or sixteen Indians, burned the houses, cut down the corn growing around the village, took the queen of the tribe and her children into boats.
What was the significance of Quetzalcoatl? Quetzalcoatl was important because i t was thought that he was the legendary Aztec man-god who had died three hundred years before, with the promise to return-the mysterious Quetzalcoatl. Compare the strategies and motives underlying the conquest of the Aztecs by Cortez and the conquest of the Incas by Pizzaro. Spanish conquistador Pizarro, used the same tactics as Cortez did, and for the same reasons- the frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold, for slaves, for products of the soil, to pay the bondholders and stockholders of the expeditions, to finance the monarchical bureaucracies rising in Western Europe.
What were the major causes of war between the Powhatans and the English settlers? Columbus felt the need to oppress indigenous peoples because they were going to ultimately lead him to the wealth. He believed that the natives were the only people that knew where the gold was. The gold was considered a sign of wealth. Columbus also wanted to find a shorter route to India. Much like finding the gold, Columbus assumed that the indigenous people could show him the way. When Columbus found the Arawak Indians, he kept them as prisoners on a ship.
He believed that they were going to lead him to gold.
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