As early as 1508 naives sighted Spanish ships off the coast of eastern Mexico

The arrival of the Spanish coincided with the Aztecs spiritual beliefs of gods returning to there land

Ocelotl was born in 1496, came from a family of priest and priesteses

Ocelotl predicted the coming of the bearded white men

In 1521 Tenochititlan fell and Moctezuma was killed Before his death Moctezuma ordered the release of

Ocelotl

Ocelotl escaped smallpox and the nurdering of fellow people and fled to the city of Tetzcoco

The surviving Aztecs were converted or persecuted by the Spanish for there beliefs

Ocelotl used his knowledge and business savvy to survive

Ocelotl was christened with the name Martin Ocelotl stayed with has former beliefs , too

strong to be fully converted He became friends with important Spanish and

made a good amount of money

Isabel was an Aztec princess

She was the most prominent indian women in Mexica for three decades

In 1526 Cortes granted Isabel the revenues and income from the village of Tacuba

From the beginning of the colonial period, the Spanish attempt to convert the natives to church abiding Catholics had been unsuccessful do to the pride the natives of Peru had in their beliefs

The church tried to force the natives to attend church

This transformed the economic and political structure of the natives

Every year between 1,500 and 3,000 ships entered the port of Lisbon

“There were more ships in Lisbon the rest of Italy put together”

The port was being imported with herbs of the spice island , products of china , precious stones from India and Sugar from brazil . . . Anything you can think of

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Manao warriors roamed freely throughout the northwester Amazonia

They were seen by Europeans about 1640 and 1690

They were fierce and feared by their neighbors

When the Dutch showed up they traded everything from shelled necklaces to fish with the tribe

Frontiersman from Portugal headed into the hills looking for gold

Enslaving people along the way , conquering land and establishing mining camps

Whenever gold was found settlements were set up

The rest of the country was left the same and the Indians fought back when they could

The Caiapo were natives who fought back

They attacked travelers and severely disrupted communication

They refused to make peace or settle like the rest of their countryman

The government tried to pay off the Caiapo

Juan de Morga and Gertrudis de Escobar were slaves in the heartland of New Spain

They lived in central America in the middle of the seventeenth century

They were slaves working in ether the sugar plantations or the silver mines

Working side by side with African slavesThey were looked at as nothing because

they did not attend mass or worship

Juan had been born a slave in Oaxaca around 1627

Unlike most slaves he could read and write

Because of the Spanish inquisition decant innocent people were tortured and murdered “For God”

Opechancanough was the muvh villifiedarchitect of bloody Indian uprisings in1622 and 1644

He was trained from child hood to be a warrior and a leader

His tribe the Powhatans were proud and very complex politically

Opechancaccepted a peace a peace treaty in 1614

After Opechancanoughlearned of Pocahontas’ death he was grief stricken and left his position to the next in line

Red shoes was a native American and a member of the Choctaw

They were a nation of 20,000 at the beginning of the 18th century

European disease devastated the Choctaw and was wiping them off the map

Red Shoes thought that he could learn from the Europeans as the Europeans learned from them