(01.02 MC)Use the following excerpts to answer the question…
(01.02 MC)Use the following excerpts to answer the question below.”Probably never before, or since, has a mighty emperor…ordered his conquests to cease until it was decided if they were just.”Source: Lewis Hanke, Colonial Latin America historian”By any standards, the debate is one of the most extraordinary events in Western political history: A country engaged in conquest is accused of doing so unjustly.”Source: Robert McAfee Brown, religion and ethics scholarWhy did Brown call the Valladolid debate “extraordinary”?
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(03.05 HC)Using the excerpt, respond to parts a, b, and c.”Art. 5: To prevent any misunderstanding about the Indian lands relinquished by the United States in the fourth article, it is now explicitly declared…: the Indian tribes who have a right to those lands…so long as they please, without any molestation from the United States; but when those tribes, or any of them, shall be disposed to sell their lands…, they are to be sold only to the United States…Art. 6: If any citizen of the United States, or any other white person or persons, shall presume to settle upon the lands now relinquished by the United States, such citizen or other person shall be out of the protection of the United States; and the Indian tribe, on whose land the settlement shall be made, may drive off the settler, or punish him in such manner as they shall think fit…”Source: The Treaty of Greenville, 1795 Briefly describe one point of view suggested in the excerpt. Briefly explain how one specific event or development from 1754 to 1800 contributed to a historical development such as the one described in the excerpt. Briefly explain how ideas such as those reflected in the excerpt resulted in one specific effect from 1754 to 1800.
Read Details(01.03 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”All this is…
(01.03 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”All this is related by Americo, who adds that they returned to Spain and arrived at Cadiz with 222 Indian captives, where they were, according to him, very joyfully received, and where they sold all the slaves. Who will now ask whence they stole and carried off the 200 natives? This, as other things, is passed over in silence by Americo. It should be noted here by readers who know something of what belongs to right and natural justice, that although these natives are without faith, yet those with whom Americo went had neither just cause nor right to make war on the natives of those islands and to carry them off as slaves, without having received any injury from them, nor the slightest offence. Moreover, they were ignorant whether the accusations of those of the mainland against the islanders were just or unjust. What report, or what love would be spread about and sown among the natives, touching those Christians, when they left them wounded and desolate?”Source: The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career, c.1500In what way does the excerpt predict the development of the encomienda system in New Spain?
Read Details(05.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”We have not…
(05.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”We have not sought to extend our territorial possessions by conquest, or our republican institutions over a reluctant people. It was the deliberate homage of each people to the great principle of our federative union. If we consider the extent of territory involved in the annexation, its prospective influence on America, the means by which it has been accomplished, springing purely from the choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union, the history of the world may be challenged to furnish a parallel…We may rejoice that the tranquil and pervading influence of the American principle of self-government was sufficient to defeat the purposes of British and French interference…From this example European Governments may learn how vain diplomatic arts and intrigues must ever prove upon this continent against that system of self-government which seems natural to our soil, and which will ever resist foreign interference.”Source: James Polk, from the State of the Union Address, December 2, 1845The ideas expressed in Polk’s State of the Union Address most directly support the growing sense of
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(01.03 HC)Read the excerpt to answer the question below.”The kindness of the seventh day,Never to leave the king,The worshiper of the father,The worshiper of the god,The worshiper of the savior,The father savior;Without a hearth,We ourselves make ourselves Children of Obatala*.”*In Yoruba traditional religions, the god Obatala created Earth and human beings.Source: Traditional African-Brazilian Folk SongThe song excerpt reflects the concept of syncretism by showing that
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