Thursday, October 26, 2006

Latin American Revolutions

In the Latin American Revolutions there were 3 man Columbus, Cortez, and Pizzaro were beating up on and conquering the native people.Spain built an entire empire there, setting up governments in Latin America so they could control the natural resources cotton, sugar, rum, tobacco, wood and ship them back to Spain.The people living in Latin America heard about the ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers.

Simon Bolivar


Simon Bolivar was born in 1783 and also die in 1830 Simon Bolivar was a very important man he organized and led the military forces. Simon Bolivar parents die before Bolivar reached his teens. His guardian saw to it that Bolivar received a sophisticated education from tutors in Caracas he aslo when to school in Spain in 1799. At the age of 19 he married a women of sapnish nobility.one year pass and his wife an Bolivar bride died of yellow fever. I n 1810 Bolivar join Francisco de Miranda ina revolt against the Spanish and quickly occupid caracas. Then he when back to Europe to secure financial aid to continue the revolution Simon Bolivar join and participated in event this started July 5,1811 this was when he declare Venezuelan independence. however in the end Simon Bolivar does not rank on the same level that Washinton does. The goverment of this countries remain the tenues at best but they are still free this is a great achievement the Simon Bolivar did.

Nationalism


Nationalism is everywhere it is so common that you could get use to it. Nationalism is basically belonging to, rooting for, and fighting for, your own country. For example Greece, Greece was part of a otttoman empirethis empire was center in the middle east. they have something diffirent they wanted everything for there own for example they wanted their own common language and formed their own country. after they had alot of pawer they broke off the ottoman empire and became Greece.For my opinion i display Nationalism to america because we fought for alot of thing but we have so much thing that almost other countries they dont have the same right that the USA have today for example USA have there own language and USA also have alot of power.