SOCIALS WORK (3A)

AMERICAN CULTURES BEFORE EUROPEANS



All the cultures in America before the Europeans came were sacred, everything had its purpose, it was a very organized constitution in which people didn’t lived to get rich, but to serve some main purposes that determined a live.
The bosses or the leaders were called “caciques” and were the ones that controlled the wealth of each tribe. In ancient America it was habit that in order to show honor and respect to their leader the people made him different types of tributes:
For example there was the party tribute which was an obligation to the people work in what the “cacique “ wanted in party season ( mainly were religious acts). Also were tributes for crops, military services and Wanderings.

When the Europeans came they where only interested in gold, silver, money and jewels, which make it totally different from the Natives in which converted the gold and other precious stones into sculptures of the world around them. The luxury stones were found in rivers and lakes which provided the Indians a lot of it and without any ambition slowly and cautiously the Americans took out only the necessary. On the other side the Spaniards massively took out all the gold in the mines and the work that Indians made were made into golden bars for a better market sale. The Indians let this figures be taken away because at the beginning they thought Europeans where monsters, because for them the objects such as swords and mirrors where unknown, but the obsession with money and power, made native realize the ones invading were human.

Now I wonder, who is smarter the Europeans that took all the fancy jewels and gold they could, or the Americans that in an organized way lived in a better civilization?

COLOMBIAN HISTORY
WEEK 2A
COLOMBIAN TERRITORIES, WHAT BELONGS TO US

The map and geography of a country is not only about showing what piece of land belongs to you, is much more than that. It shows how that the territory occupied belongs to a nation which is glad to have it, and it is like the house, is unique special you would do anything to keep it safe. But in the case of Colombia this image of a nice state, has been erased in time.

Since the time the Spaniards came we haven’t shown really the true valor’s that make us defend with dignity our country (I don’t mean in the military way) because by brides and cheap negotiations our country is now more small than it used to be, it had more land and space but as times passed, from the day that our liberator Simon Bolivar freed us from the Spanish embassy we have done nothing but fight between us and try to negotiate the piece of lands like if it was a domino board. Or that is what I felt the author was trying to transmit in all those angry pages.
For the things to work for the Colombian people to stop the desperation we shall know how beautiful this country is and the little piece of land remained on the map we shall take care of it.

introduction to socials blog (week 1)

Most of the blogs try to give a short piece of information about something saying only a unique point of view (personal) without exploring different opinions from different angles about a specific thing. My blog will be different; it will have the information needed from the subject, without taking sides. I won’t say rather this is good or bad, I will check out all the sides of the history and in base on that I will give my statement.

I hope is good and I will try my best.