Essay Columbus and Cortes encounters Native and Meso Americans

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-1A COMPARISON OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS ENCOUNTERED BY COULUMBUS ON THE ISLANDS OF THE CARIBBEAN WITH THE ENCOUNTERED BY CORTES IN THE MESO-AMERICA.

In the Age of Exploration these are two of the recorded encounters of Native Americans and here is my comparison of those encounters. Each encounter was by a different explorer and were 27 years apart as well as many miles apart. With each encounter comes a difference in sophistication and how technologically advanced the Native Americans by Hernando Cortes in the Meso-America to those of the Native Americans encountered by Christopher Columbus on the islands of the Caribbean. The main differences revolved around how their weapons were made, what constituted housing for each group, …show more content…
They had a water strait that connected two lakes and was used as a means of traveling by canoes and trading between the cities. The city had four entrances and each of these were formed by artificial causeways and bridges made of timber. The city had public areas for market, buying and selling and areas that sold food and drink like a restaurant, barbers' shops, and an herb street where roots and medicinal herbs could be obtain. Many kinds of game, vegetables, fruits and merchandise of earthenware for burning coal, jewels of gold, silver and mats of various kinds for beds, seats, halls, and bedrooms could be obtained there as well as bricks, stones and timber of different sorts.

Public buildings, public squares, magnificent houses for the wealthy citizens and large apartments, upper and lower for the people were built and located in different districts and suburbs. A large number of towers and temples were built for their idols indicating how advanced there architectural structures were some of the towers were constructed of stone and wood with plaster ceilings and carved wood works and painted figures. A temple with large halls and corridors for religious person attached to the temple to live. One of the largest tower described as having fifty steps leading to its main body. There were marble columns, a court-yard of stone laid out like a chest board, balconies that over looked pools of water and water pipes for feeding in two types of water.
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