To My King Research Paper
Explorer Paper
LeeAnne Valentine
HIS/458
May 12, 2014
Jelena Popov
Explorer Paper
To My King Charles V,
I have come to understand that this is a golden time to begin exploring other worlds in search of gold, power, and create trading routes with the Indies of the West. In doing this, I would need to circumnavigate the oceans in search for a Western route to the Indies. Perhaps, you are familiar with Prince Henry the Navigator? He has formed a research titled, "Primitive Research and Development," in which people have used to explore the New World. It would be a travesty if we did not seize the moment to explore, conquer and expand our lands beyond that of Spain, my King.
In order to secure our position in exploring the …show more content…
Would it not make sense to send out viceroys or judges to far-away lands to make sure that your laws are followed, and to collect taxes from other colonies? My ships can transport the viceroys to these lands, and bring back reports with your collected taxes. Under my leadership, I will make sure that they are safe, and to make sure that they spread your law to peasants throughout the new lands. We are facing changes in the political and cultural world. There is a growing rift between the peninsulares (those who were born in Spain) and criollos (those who were born in the New World). These people are of nobility, in which have different views on who should be governing the colonies. They are battling for supremacy. The peninsulares have always dominated the social and political life of the American colonies (Escosura & Alvarez-Nogal, 2007). Unfortunately, there are reports of the criollos demanding more power in controlling the colonies. According to a report on Columbus 's travel to the colonies, the colonists remarked "Spain transmitted to us everything it had: its ' language, its ' architecture, its religion, its dress and its food, its military tradition and its judicial and civil institutions; wheat, livestock, sugar cane, even our dogs and chickens. But we could not receive from Spain Western methods of production and distribution, techniques, capital, and the ideas of European society, because Spain did not have them" (Escouras &Alvarez-Nogal, 2005). They are not open to view things the same as we do. I believe that, in this time, we should not intimidate them but to appease them in order to assist us in exploring the routes to the Indies. The viceroys may intimidate the Indies with our new ideas, or mistreat them badly in which we do not need. Trust is the most valuable thing we need right now. We do not understand how the Indians think,
LeeAnne Valentine
HIS/458
May 12, 2014
Jelena Popov
Explorer Paper
To My King Charles V,
I have come to understand that this is a golden time to begin exploring other worlds in search of gold, power, and create trading routes with the Indies of the West. In doing this, I would need to circumnavigate the oceans in search for a Western route to the Indies. Perhaps, you are familiar with Prince Henry the Navigator? He has formed a research titled, "Primitive Research and Development," in which people have used to explore the New World. It would be a travesty if we did not seize the moment to explore, conquer and expand our lands beyond that of Spain, my King.
In order to secure our position in exploring the …show more content…
Would it not make sense to send out viceroys or judges to far-away lands to make sure that your laws are followed, and to collect taxes from other colonies? My ships can transport the viceroys to these lands, and bring back reports with your collected taxes. Under my leadership, I will make sure that they are safe, and to make sure that they spread your law to peasants throughout the new lands. We are facing changes in the political and cultural world. There is a growing rift between the peninsulares (those who were born in Spain) and criollos (those who were born in the New World). These people are of nobility, in which have different views on who should be governing the colonies. They are battling for supremacy. The peninsulares have always dominated the social and political life of the American colonies (Escosura & Alvarez-Nogal, 2007). Unfortunately, there are reports of the criollos demanding more power in controlling the colonies. According to a report on Columbus 's travel to the colonies, the colonists remarked "Spain transmitted to us everything it had: its ' language, its ' architecture, its religion, its dress and its food, its military tradition and its judicial and civil institutions; wheat, livestock, sugar cane, even our dogs and chickens. But we could not receive from Spain Western methods of production and distribution, techniques, capital, and the ideas of European society, because Spain did not have them" (Escouras &Alvarez-Nogal, 2005). They are not open to view things the same as we do. I believe that, in this time, we should not intimidate them but to appease them in order to assist us in exploring the routes to the Indies. The viceroys may intimidate the Indies with our new ideas, or mistreat them badly in which we do not need. Trust is the most valuable thing we need right now. We do not understand how the Indians think,