Argemiro Celestino Mendez

Okay sir, I’m going to explain my conceptual map. First, it is necessary to

understand the historical context. Europe was submerged in a great economic,
political and military. In the economic field the main routes for the exchange of
products with Asian countries were taken by the Arabs who had recently taken
Constantinople due to great military engineering. On the other hand at the
political level, Europe was led by monarchies. In the case of Spain two
kingdoms were united, the kingdom of Aragon and Castilla. The marriage of the
catholic kings also means the struggle for power to plow as well as their religion
to be banished from the continent.
The end of the 15th century was not only a time of great crisis but it was also a
time of great advances in science, philosophy and navigation.
Cristobal colon, a great navigator who, with the financing and blessing of the
Catholic kings, set sail
in the search for new trade routes that would take him to India, he ended up
finding a
New land, with beaches and beautiful landscapes that for him was India and
that after his death it was known that it was a new land, this produced the
colonization of the American continent.
It was not a discovery because the Norwegians and Polynesians had already
been in the new continent; it was a barbaric colonization and looting of the
wealth of the Amerindian tribes.
This colonization was given with the help of the holy cross, swords, firearms,
gunpowder, cannons, horses, which would bend the rustic arrows of the
indigenous people. But what really detracted the Indians were diseases, such
as yellow fever, tetanus, and leprosy.
Once dominated the indigenous were forced to work as slaves, there was
collective suicide, and thousands of deaths

The usurpation of the new continent would create in the European imaginary
that this was a fantasy and surreal land, this would lead to the hunt for great
myths, such as El Dorado, the Río de la Plata, also to the destruction of great
sacred places just to carry gold and silver.
In conclusion, I can say that the book Open Veins of Latin America is another
side of the untold story of colonization and the outrage experienced by
indigenous people during the colonial period. It did not come to bring progress,
already there were great cultures such as the Inca and Aztecs who had their
own social, political and economic organization, what really prevailed was
terror, the imposition of one culture over another and the usurpation of wealth .