The World As We Know It - 1508 Words

Miguel Vargas Mr. O’Neal English IV` 9 December 2015 The World As We Know It The greatest nation the world has ever seen the United States of America was a vast land made up of various Native American nations that originally had their own traditions and cultures. This so called new world was already inhabited by people already but the europeans saw them as just wanting to be ruled by other inferior nations. As time has told us again and again humanity does not like to be ruled by other people so by nature if we want freedom then we fight for it. Once independence was for Americans this nation had a foundation that was going to be built upon on even til this day. If you go back a couple hundred years ago and look at this nation s past, a large amount of indian tribes having to adapt and coexist with immigrants from around the world only to have malicious wars played out on this land then for americans to overcome overwhelming adversities and end up being the United States we know today is definitely something unexpected. When the spanish landed their ships on new found territory and set up Catholic Churches in Florida as well as the areas now known as New Mexico.(discovering mulitcultural america). Before arriving in what now is the u.s. the Spanish who have been coexisting with groups aside themselves for quite awhile, like the aztecs in Mexico. 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