Who Is Responsible For The Death Of The Tainos? When las Casas wrote this in 1542, there were only 200 Taíno left on Hispaniola. Across the Caribbean, he claimed the Spanish were responsible for the deaths of 12 to 15 million indigenous people. What caused the death of the Tainos? “Their culture was interrupted by
Who Appointed Stalin? Grigory Zinoviev What bad things did Joseph Stalin do? Joseph Stalin did not mellow with age: He prosecuted a reign of terror, purges, executions, exiles to labor camps and persecution in the postwar USSR, suppressing all dissent and anything that smacked of foreign–especially Western–influence. When did Stalin become a Bolshevik? At this
Who Brought Diseases To Native Americans? AD 1493–1550s: Native peoples begin dying from European diseases. Diseases unknown to them spread rapidly among Native peoples, who lack immunity to viruses and bacteria carried by Europeans. As Native peoples travel waterways by canoe to trade and share news, they unknowingly take the germs to neighboring tribes. How
Who Was Responsible For The Spanish Conquest Of The Aztec? Between 1519 and 1521 Hernán Cortés Who started the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs? Spanish conquistadores commanded by Hernán Cortés allied with local tribes to conquer the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán. Cortés’s army besieged Tenochtitlán for 93 days, and a combination of superior weaponry
Who Were The Spanish Fighting At Illora? COLUMBUS: Who were the Spanish fighting at Illora? 1. It was the year they defeated the Moors – they would have felt especially generous. COLUMBUS: Columbus asked Ferdinand and Isabella to finance his voyage in 1492. Why did pilgrims bury their dead at first light? Why did the
Who Was Negatively Affected By The Columbian Exchange? Who was negatively affected by the Columbian Exchange? In contrast to the positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on the New and Old Worlds, was the inhumane treatment of the two groups of people New World, mainly the Native Americans and the African slaves, whose stories are
Did The Aztecs Conquered The Incas? Between 1519 and 1521 Hernán Cortés Who conquered the Aztecs the Incas? After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and their indigenous allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. How were the Aztecs and
Why Did The Spanish Take Over The Aztecs? The Aztecs no longer trusted Montezuma, they were short on food, and the smallpox epidemic was under way. More than 3 million Aztecs died from smallpox, and with such a severely weakened population, it was easy for the Spanish to take Tenochtitlán Why did Cortes want to
Was Smallpox A Pandemic Or Epidemic? Cholera, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the most brutal killers in human history. And outbreaks of these diseases across international borders, are properly defined as pandemic, especially smallpox, which throughout history, has killed between 300-500 million people in its 12,000 year existence. How bad was smallpox
Did Mozart Die Age 35? On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna, Austria at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. What was Mozart’s illness? Throughout his life Mozart suffered frequent attacks of tonsillitis. In 1784 he developed post-streptococcal