Arriving at the resort, you'll feel daily stresses and concerns melt into the Caribbean breeze. For your enjoyment, El Conquistador Resort offers an array of activities, from water sports and horseback riding to tours and excursions throughout Puerto Rico to indulging with a sitting by a pool and sipping on a frozen tropical drink.
Come and live precisely the experience that you imagined Each of our spacious guestrooms and suites overlook the aquamarine Caribbean surf. From your private balcony, enjoy the incredible views from feet above sea level.
In-room luxuries include deep-soaking tubs, free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs with cable and satellite, mini-refrigerators, and more. Spacious King-bedded guestrooms with astonishing views of the Caribbean Sea. On the other hand, tens of millions died in the pandemics of the 16th century, victims of smallpox, measles and the other diseases brought by Europeans and don't forget that the African slave trade was begun by the Europeans, to replace the work force they had decimated.
Then, after the defeat and extermination of the native societies, came the arrival of the European settler class and the appropriation of the native lands and natural resources. From this process has emerged the modern US empire. The effects on the economies of the world were no less marked as it shifted the centre of gravity of civilisation to the countries of the Atlantic seaboard and their offshoots in the New World. However, the story is also one of history's greatest adventures.
The opening up of the continent involved unparalleled journeys of exploration with almost unbelievable bravery, endurance, cruelty and greed. For instance, Almagro's 6,km expedition to explore the wastes of Chile, or de Soto's fateful three-year march through a dozen US states - a tale only now being untangled by US historians. Then there are the extraordinary explorations across the Andes, deep into Venezuela and Colombia in the s, journeys which gave birth to the alluring legend of El Dorado.
It was the dream of El Dorado that fired Gonzalo Pizarro's month expedition across the Ecuadorian Andes: 'the worst journey ever in the Indies', it was said. However, it led by accident to the discovery and descent of the Amazon. When all is said and done, it is no exaggeration to say that these are some of the greatest land explorations in history.
Moreover, this is a story of the reshaping of mental landscapes. It was a meeting of civilisations which previously had no idea of each other's existence. One fascinating aspect of this encounter is how they responded to each other; how each categorised the other and read the signs. It has often been claimed, for example, that the Aztecs were fatally disabled in their encounter with the 'Other' because the conceptual tools of their civilisation did not enable them properly to categorise the aliens who had landed.
As a matter of fact, there is evidence that some of the Aztec leadership correctly assessed the Spaniards as foreign invaders. We would surely categorise them as international terrorists today. To an extent, this idea is confirmed by the Aztec version of events as collected by the Franciscan Bernadino de Sahagun as part of his monumental 'History of New Spain'.
This is perhaps one of the greatest of all works of historiography, and a work that rebuts the still commonly held view that this story can only be told from the Spanish side. In Peru The Aztecs may have been unsure, at the beginning, whether the bearded strangers with their guns and horses were people like them, or agents of a higher power. However, they quickly came to realise that despite their technological superiority, the Spaniards were all too human.
In Peru, on the other hand, native narratives of the Conquest suggest the Incas knew from the beginning who the aliens were.
Guaman Poma's 1, page New Chronicle completed in or the fascinating account dictated by Titu Cusi, the son of Manco Inca, all suggest the Incas understood that the Spaniards were people from another civilisation and responded to them as such.
The book of the Conquistador-turned-historian Cieza de Leon confirms this from interviews with Inca eye-witnesses, including the keepers of the quipus which were the knotted strings on which the non-literate Incas preserved and communicated information:.
They were astonished From the start, each side in Peru took the other for 'rational beings'. These first recorded conversations, between representatives of the Inca world and the European, are enough to dispel some weird modern theories about the Incas' initial perception of the Europeans as aliens, spacemen, or the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy.
However, like all 'close encounters', these events also had a profound effect on modern ways of seeing the world. The deeds of the Conquistadors, for example, led to a passionate debate in Spain, among politicians and theologians, on the fundamental principles of justice and morality raised by the conquests.
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