Federico Guillermo Enrique Alejandro de Humboldt, conocido como Alexander von Humboldt, fue un Alemán que ha marcado hasta la actualidad varios aspectos de la ciencia moderna. A continuación, explicare brevemente su biografía antes de llegar al destino previamente invadido por España: México, el cual se llamaba “Nueva España” en ese entonces. Tiene una educación con profesores privados bastante amplia, como es la filosofía, física, grabado, dibujo, política, ciencias físicas y naturales, biología, historia moderna, matemáticas, geografía, geología y también varios idiomas; aporta lo que actualmente conoceríamos como el principio de la ciencia moderna. Él explora tierras lejanas, desconocidas y extrañas por los Europeos: el continente Americano, enfocándonos en México; en el analiza y estudia la naturaleza con detalle, haciendo mapas, dibujos, escrituras y recolecta varias cosas para después poder analizarlas. Viajan en mulas o a pie, colectan y estudian plantas, animales y rocas cargando consigo mismos pesados y delicados instrumentos de medición, los cuales eran mas de 25 y los mas modernos de su época e incluso gasto su propia fortuna para comprar estos instrumentos hechos de metal y madera, incluyendo: telescopio, microscopio, sexante, cuadrantes, barómetro , teodolito e higrómetro. En América, donde observa la población indígena con ojos llenos de cultura, le da interés por lo humano. Nueva España se encontraba con varias condiciones injustas sociales, políticas y sociales que vivían los habitantes a lo que Humboldt decide oponerse y hacer un cambio, ya que no tenia prejuicios. Lo acusan ya que puede ser un posible espía para Estados Unidos, ya que les entrega algunos mapas de la región de México, la cual mas tarde conquista...
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...xplorar tierras y relacionar la naturaleza con el ser humano le han traído la fama que actualmente reconocemos. El era un hombre sin prejuicios, que trataba de que a todos los seres humanos los tomaran en cuenta de igual manera sin clasificaciones, en especial a los indígenas que tenían varias injusticias debido a que los españoles los rebajaban socialmente. También en Nueva España hizo varias investigaciones y descubrimientos relevantes de la naturaleza y la historia antes de que los españoles invadieran ya que no era el mismo sitio y tuvo que sacar los escombros de algunas figuras importantes como la Coatlicue y el calendario Azteca. El trabaja en la ciencia durante mas de 70 años, poniendo su fortuna personal para poder pagar sus propios viajes, publicaciones y ayudándole a jóvenes de bajos recursos en su educación ya que no recibió apoyo económico del gobierno.
I come from a country where so you see the desarrollno not been as acerelado like I'm enscuentro me , usa. but I can alo very important to note in this book , which is that when you have an idea, you can have a plan ejcucion , but many people are needed to support and believe in this plan to succeed . THE Canal, was supplanted by other means of faster transportation , and in winter could work. "If the Erie Canal compressed distance and time , the railroads annihilated them , or so it Appeared to the amazed observer in the mid - nineteenth century" . (173 ) which leaves clear view that the human mind is infinite, and the steady progress reflects an organized nation that thinks about the welfare of their society.
Although the Aztec civilization is a popular subject studied by the scholars, it tends to be one-dimensional: the elite and religion are the hearts of the study. The work here goes beyond that, as it tries to give us a new perspective on the “ordinary people”. The book studied here is titled Aztecs: An Interpretation, by Inga Clendinnen, first published in 1991. It studies the Aztecs people, also known as Mexicas, living in the empire that was Tenochtitlan, in the valley of Mexico. This work tries to be a reconstruction of the pre- colonial kingdom, before the arrival of the Spaniards in August 1521. Clendinnen successfully highlights how religion and sacrifices are perceived among the common people, and how they forge the lives of the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan. Nevertheless, even if she brings fascinating new elements, her lack of multiple sources puts doubt on the truth and accuracy of her statements.
The Great Divide University of California-Berkley geographer and author Michael Johns argues in his novel, The City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz, that the central Zocalo of Mexico City does more than geographically segregate the East from the West, but Mexico’s national mentality as well. During the years of Diaz’s democratic façade, the upper classes thrived upon plantation exports, feudalist economics and the iron fist of Diaz’s rurales while struggling to maintain European social likeness. East of the Zocalo, shantytowns housed thousands of poor pelados that served as societal blemishes of a suburbanite’s experience. In Johns’s work, the penniless and indigenous serve as the scapegoats for the priviledged and their obsession with grooming Mexico City to be a little Europe. A growing affluent class called upon the Diaz regime and imported architects to construct buildings in the Zocalo to reflect a “proper” image that drew on influences from Europe and the United States.
The traditions my parents instilled in me at a young age are important to me. They are part of my Latin culture and identity. One of the most important traditions that I value the most is our devotion to “La Virgen de Guadalupe” (The Virgin of Guadalupe), and although I don't go to church or share a specific a religion, I believe in La Virgen as a protector and a guardian figure and maintain her presence in my daily life.
The following paper will be comparative of the cultures and ideas of the Americans and the Spanish. It will be primarily referring to the paper “Lived Ethnicity: Archaeology and Identity in Mexicano America, by Bonnie J. Clark”. The similarities as well as the differences will be discussed. After the comparisons and contrasts have been established, there will be a prediction of what will happen when these two cultures meet and begin to interact with one another.
Two conflicts during this time are seen as significant towards this battle between the interests of the Natives in the Americas. One of which was between two men: Bartolomé Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. Las Casas defends t...
Throughout the centuries on Earth, Great Empires expanding mass amounts of territory have arose, and crumbled in the forms of the Persian Empire, Roman Empire, Han Dynasty, Mongolian Empire, and the Aztec Empire only to falter to the test of time. All great Empires are formed by having a distinctive advantage over their neighbours whether it be in military tactics, or technologies that allowed them to exploit the weaknesses of their rivals. The Mexica was a religious and militaristic society, causing their warriors to be extremely skilled in combat, allowing them to vigorously expand, and subjugate kingdoms in the Mexico Valley, with their constant need of captives for sacrifice, and allowing them to sustain their warrior class system. The
Machado's overriding theme is the exploration of his personal spirit and that of the Castilian people through landscape. The landscape can also reflect and inner psychology. It is clear from the title of this collection the importance of the Spanish landscape.
In the early 1500's Mexico was submitted to a cultural change, when the Spanish people arrived to this country. The problem of transforming the lives and culture of the inhabitants of the New World under the influence of people from Europe that completely destroyed the order of existing things and brought in place new structures social-political, previously unknown achievements in the field of material culture and a new conception of the world woke long been the interest of researchers in different specialties within the social sciences, but especially the interest of ethnographers.The problems and the processes linked to complicated set of phenomena of acculturation came to be a subject of many considerations and scientific ...
Wood, James A., and John Charles Chasteen. Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. Print.
...ere kingdoms involving to staples of venture change and dealings within all the further fit monetary social requests. Budgetary dependence ran with political and social dependence in domestic existence. Latin Americas combat in expansion shared value, social independence, budgetary retreat complete both accepting remote rationalities and enumerating aboriginal rejoinders. Regardless of the way that country and mineral creation continued, streamlined headway stretched worker cooperation, development and urban advancement. A urban working population looked to connection the radical technique. Notwithstanding the shallow movements Latin America persisted by and large unaltered as old stations acclimated to new effects. Relatively few insurrections realized stamped political movements, however here need remained basic modifications within societal y budgetary matters.
In this essay I will tell how the Aztec and Inca empires ended, and also I will compare the fall of both empires, using for a point of departure the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the land of Mexico. Wherever the Spanish went always the same thing happened, from my point of view. Innocent people were killed for no good reason, cities were massacred, civilizations were destroyed or forced to convert to Christianity. And so, I think now is the time to reevaluate the actions of the European explorers who subjugated the native American peoples and their civilizations. Undoubtedly the most glorified and heroically portrayed of these figures of the European conquest of the New World were the conquistadors, the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16-th century. These men, under leaders such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizzaro nearly eliminated the Aztec and Inca peoples. Surely many of these soldiers were extremely cruel and intolerant of the native populations. But it is important to consider, with the push of both sides toward territorial expansion, how these groups (European and American) could remain isolated from each other. Furthermore, with meeting of these two imperialist cultures, it must be considered whether it would be possible for the two to peacefully coexist.
Explanation- This article gives examples of how indigenous people used to live before the colonization of Christopher Columbus. After the appearance of Christopher Columbus in Mexico different ethnic groups were distributed amongst different states along with their different languages. In the state of Oaxaca there around sixteen different ethnic groups which the Mixtecs and the Zapotecs are the two main ethnos who have continued to expand amongst the territory. During the Spanish conquest the Mixtec and the Zapotecs’ religion was mostly based on belief in the vital force that animated all living things, meaning that they worshiped the land and the creator. Throughout this day there are still indigenous people who believe and practice their ideology, and the “modernized” are set to practice Catholicism.
Event Analysis of a Journey along the El Camino Real History is the story that happens to everyone and people tells it to others. According to the history speaker in my class: “History is thus not a description of the past but a particular method of interpretation of the past”. History serves a liaison for people to connect past events and modern issues, a line that making connection for people who live in the past and the one who live now and future. In analyzing the event of “A journey along the El Camino Real” (El Camino Real is the trail along Spain, New Mexico and North America), the setting of the event and the history of the trail between Spain and America gives me a concept that the trail of El Camino Real serve more than a road, it is a bridge that brings people together from different backgrounds, locations but it also has formed a diverse society.
Los sueños han sido considerados un elemento místico a través de diversas culturas y épocas, una forma de llave astral con la capacidad de guiarnos ya sea a dimensiones paralelas, a un viaje introspectivo a lo más profundo de nuestro ser e incluso a predecir el futuro. La utilización e interpretación de los sueños ha cautivado al ser humano y tanto Borges como Cortázar no son la excepción; en sus obras "El etnógrafo" y "La noche boca arriba" respectivamente, los author