1.) The challenge and triumph in reading Galeano are in his expansive vocabulary and his writing style where historical references are constantly woven into his own commentary. Pick three words, names, or ideas you had to look up while reading this section and write a couple sentences why you think knowing those definitions significantly enhance your comprehension of the text.
A few words that I didn't understand what Galeano meant. The words; clandestine, Green Strongroom, and latifundia were a few that I had to look up to understand what he was trying to say. The way Galeano uses his words and tells his story is very dense. I really like reading his book because of the way he knows his history. I believe it is important to know every word he uses because everything he says is very interesting at it's part of his story he's telling his readers. It's like having a conversation with someone. If you only choose to listen to fragments of the conversation, you'll end up not comprehending all of what is being said to you.
2.) The description Galeano provides for the first contact between the indigenous peoples of Latin America has some stark similarities with the description of Captain Cook's first contact with the Hawaiians. What are some of the similarities in both accounts?
Both Latin America and Hawaii had rich land that could support them. There lands were filled with rich soil, the climate was good for almost anything to grow on, and they were near water. Once the Europeans discovered these lands, they began to colonize on them and took away land, from the native people. As time went by, the indigineous people grew more and more dependent on the Europeans.
3.) America was the vast kingdom of the Devil, its redemption impossible or doubtful; but the fanatical mission against the natives' heresy was mixed with the fever that the New World treasures stirred in the conquering hosts (13). A lot of this section discusses the relationship between the land conquest paralleled with the ideological conquest (religion). What role did religion have in the invasion of Latin America?
After Columbus discovered new land in the Americas, everyone heard tales of its beauty and wealth of the land. Men conquest to find riches but religion then started to take a role in the invasion to take over Latin America. Around the time period that Galeano talks about, churches would send out people to try to convert them into their religion. Back then religion played a lot in how a country was led. So to answer this question, countries would try to convert the Latin Americans which in a way is controlling them because once youre converted, the church can control what you do.
4.) Galeano quotes the saying "Father a merchant, son a gentleman, grandson a beggar" as an analogy to describle that Spain did with the immense amount of wealth it extracted from Latin America. How does this saying represent the ways that Latin America's resources were the delirium and demise of Spain?
Latin America was a place of many riches. After Spain invaded parts of Latin America, they made the indigineous people depend on the Spaniards. The Spaniards took everything that the native people had. Over time Spain took more and more form the Latin Americans that caused the people to become poor.In Galeano's quote it gives the example that down generations, more of the people became poor.
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