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Videos about the Spanish conquest of South America
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Columbus’s famed voyage in 1492 joined two very different worlds. For thousands of years, Europeans and Native Americans lived completely separate lives, unaware of the others’ existence. When Columbus stepped onto the rocky soil of San Salvador, he ...started a historic chain of events that affected the lives of millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Columbus and later explorers discovered a land unlike anything they had experienced. They encountered neatly patterned park-like settings in the middle of massive forests, caused by Native Americans burning and clearing out large areas of the forest to enhance their hunting efforts. The Spanish explorers saw strange creatures, including turkeys, llamas, iguanas, and rattlesnakes—which they colorfully described as “snakes with castanets.” The Old World explorers also enjoyed new plants and foods, including tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, squash, beans, peanuts, pineapples, and chocolate.
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December 8, 2009 at 08:57 PM
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Ages: 7 - 18
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A very well done biography that deals with his history and dealing with the church in Span and Mexico. Moves rapidly so the teacher needs to use a word list and a map to show where the events occured. Many battles are briefly explained and his effort...s to end slavery and work with the natives.
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August 22, 2010 at 11:56 PM
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Ages: 7 - 18
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A brief biography of Simon Bolivar. Well done and useful for students, but needs a list of events and maps of South America. Excellent for most grades.
August 22, 2010 at 11:30 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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A biography of Pizarro with the emphasis on his exploits in South America and his dealing with the Incas. Very well done and useful. Teachers need to have a word list and map to make the data more useful as the video moves rapidly.
August 22, 2010 at 11:50 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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As the Spanish empire spread over the southern portion of the present-day United States, the mission system was developed to facilitate colonial expansion and to pacify the Indians. Catholic priests and friars ventured into remote areas to build miss...ions where they worked side-by-side with the Indians planting crops, hunting game, and preaching Christianity. The missionaries also taught the Indians about Spanish culture, including language, arts and crafts, and politics.
Each mission typically included a chapel for religious services; housing for the Indians, missionaries, and guests; merchant shops; and storage buildings. Protective walls were constructed around the premises to guard against attacks. Outside the walls, the mission owned thousands of acres of land for farming or pasturing herds of cattle and sheep.
The mission system also included a presidio, or fort, to protect those associated with the mission from hostile Indians or European rivals.
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December 8, 2009 at 09:06 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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Following the Spanish invasion and conquest, the Roman Catholic Order of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, were a powerful and sometimes intrusive force for education and evangelism in Mexico.This is a great resource to use in conjunction with non-fi...ction texts and/or lessons on this topic. (4:13)
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June 23, 2012 at 05:51 PM
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Ages: 8 - 18
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This 2:51 minute video explains how the Spanish created a New World Caste system so that people would be ranked by who they were with the Spanish being the highest caste. The rankings controlled what you could become and this video shows the conseque...nces of the system.
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February 17, 2011 at 12:19 AM
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