The Spanish were greeted fearfully as returning gods. ... The Aztecs afforded no opposition to the Spanish coming ashore. ... This set the stage for the Spanish's domination of the Aztecs. ... This also helped protect Africans from any kind of conquest until the discovery of quinine. ... Africans kept the relationship on a fairly even keel, for the most part, with coastal defense and help from indigenous disease. ...
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. ... " This created labor units in the slavery market, the Spanish colonial slavery market units were one healthy man equal to two or three sick/older men. ... African slaves were turned into commodities, from the certain jobs they are needed for and the European/Spanish desire in quality of slave units. ... It helped empires produce food and increase population, which in time helped empire production. In comparis...
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. ...
The Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Japanese utilized their military force and the created innovation to extend their domains and searching for more regions. ... From Cape Coast in modern Ghana to Luanda in Angola, founded in 1579 by the Portuguese, Atlantic port towns nominally under European control helped to foster a cosmopolitan society where European and African bloodlines and influences merged. ... Some of the major colonizers known to date are France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom (LCN). ... As the former improved the basis of help for specialized routines, th...
Old imperialists generally steered clear of territorial claims and major players during this time were the Dutch, Portuguese and the Spanish. ... The Portuguese and Spanish were fervent Roman Catholics, eager to spread their faith to the indigenous natives. ... The availability of cheap 1(Deepti, M. 2001) labor helped European countries to construct railways and waterways. ...
Shortly after Columbus discovered America, in the early 1500s, Spain invaded what is now South America and attacked the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs who had civilized and developed cultures. ... How anyone could argue these people do not need help after seeing the numbers is unbelievable. ... However, if we go in with intentions to help and not to expand or exploit, that is an entirely different thing. ...
Initially Leopold had looked to the east in his efforts to gain colonies, but his attempt to gain the Philippines from Spain did not prove fruitful. ... Despite the decrees of the Berlin Act no attempt was made to help the Congolese people or keep the free trade agreements. ...
Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. ... Prince Henry helped unlock the secrets of Africa. ... Just a few years earlier, Queen Isabella of Spain hired a sailor from Genoa to reach India by sailing west. ...
This connection was to the extent that when a runaway woman in Kingston3 was caught and punished, the only way her owners could get her to eat was to solicit her shipmate's help in talking to her. ... The planters tried to teach the enslaved populace their language but somehow this was an arduous task which led to the emergence of Creolese, this was a linguistic syncretism of African languages and the language of the planters, whether it was English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch. ...
