WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

PRESENTATION BY: DENISE MITCHELL

CREATING A CULTURE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW WORLD

CULTUREWHEN THE SPANISH ARRIVED IN THE NEW WORLD, RICH CULTURES CONVERGED TO BEGIN CENTURIES OF A NEW TRADITION.

INDIGENOUS, SPANISH, AND AFRICAN CUSTOMS, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, AND TRADITIONS MELDED TOGETHER TO CREATE A NEW CULTURE THROUGH THE EXCHANGE OF GOODS AND IDEAS. WHILE NOT UNIQUE TO LATIN AMERICA, THIS IMPACT DEFINED AN ENTIRE REGION AND CREATED A LEGACY THAT CONTINUES TODAY. (HTTP://WWW.PBS.ORG/KCET/WHEN-WORLDS-COLLIDE/)

THE FIRST AMERICAN EMPIRES: THE MEXICA AND INCAN

EMPIRES

LONG BEFORE THE COLUMBUS SAILED ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, SOPHISTICATED EMPIRES THRIVED IN THE AMERICAS. THE DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY OLD WORLD DISEASES AND POLICIES CAUSED CIVILIZATIONS TO COLLAPSE AND POPULATIONS TO DRAMATICALLY DECLINE. HOWEVER, THE LEGACY LEFT BEHIND BY THESE NATIVE CIVILIZATIONS HELPED TO SHAPE THE CULTURE OF LATIN AMERICA. THIS LESSON ASKS STUDENTS TO ACT AS SPANISH HISTORIANS WHO ATTEMPT TO RECORD THE ACHIEVEMENTS, HISTORY, AND FALL OF THE MEXICA AND INCA EMPIRES. (HTTP://WWW.PBS.ORG/KCET/WHEN-WORLDS-COLLIDE/)

THE SPANISH EMPIRE AND RELIGION

THE SPANISH ZEAL FOR CATHOLICISM DRAMATICALLY AFFECTED THE REIGNS OF THE 16TH CENTURY SPANISH MONARCHS. THE CRUSADER MENTALITY PUSHED THE SPANISH INTO NUMEROUS BATTLES, BOTH INTERNALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, WHICH DEFINED THEIR PRESENCE IN BOTHEUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD. ULTIMATELY, THESE EFFORTS WOULD DRAIN THE VAST RICHES THAT FLOWED FROM THE AMERICAS AND BRING ABOUT THE DECLINE THE SPANISH EMPIRE. (HTTP://WWW.PBS.ORG/KCET/WHEN-WORLDS-COLLIDE/)

NEW WORLD CATHOLICISM

AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD BY COLUMBUS, SPANISH FORCES CAME TO THE NEW WORLD TO CONQUER AND CONVERT THE INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS. WHILE POLITICAL DOMINANCE CAME EASILY TO THE SPANISH, SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY CAME MORE SLOWLY. CATHOLICISM ULTIMATELY BECAME THE PRIMARY RELIGION OF LATIN AMERICA, BUT IT TOOK ON MANY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LOCAL CULTURE. (HTTP://WWW.PBS.ORG/KCET/WHEN-WORLDS-COLLIDE/)

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