Document 7b
this is an excerpt of the testimony given by gavrilo princip reprinted in the sarajevo trial. he was accused
of assassinating archduke ferdinand of austria-hungary and his wife in july 1914.
the hearing of gavrilo princip
12 october 1914
in the afternoon
…pr. [prosecutor]: — call gavrilo princip. (he is brought in.) do you consider yourself
guilty?
acc. [accused, gavrilo princip]: — i am not a criminal, because i destroyed that which was
evil. i think that i am good.…
pr.: — what kind of ideas did you have?
acc.: — i am a yugoslav nationalist and i believe in the unification of all south slavs in
whatever form of state and that it be free of austria.
pr.: — that was your aspiration. how did you think to realize [accomplish] it?
acc.: — by means of terror.
pr.: — what does that signify?
acc.: — that means in general to destroy from above, to do away with those who obstruct and
do evil, who stand in the way of the idea of unification.
pr.: — how did you think that you might realize your objectives?
acc.: — still another principal motive was revenge for all torments which austria imposed
upon the people.…
pr.: — what was the feeling about austria in your circles?
acc.: — it was the opinion that austria behaved badly to our people, which is true, and
certainly that she (austria) is not necessary.…
source: w. a. dolph owings et al., eds., the sarajevo trial, volume i, documentary publications
based on this excerpt from the sarajevo trial, what was one goal of gavrilo princip?

pacal the great: the throne was passed on to pacal through a female; as a result, he believed that he must legitimize his claim to the throne to add stability to his reign.

as a result, the daughter of ac kan's brother ruled until her son, pacal, reached an age old enough to assume the throne.

pacal the great became the king of the mayan city of palenque in a different way than most mayan kings.

pacal pointed out that ac kan had succeeded his mother as ruler, thereby establishing a precedent for the rule to pass through a female.  

he tried to justify that the way he gained the throne by connecting his mother with the divine mother and the mythological events that happened during the creation of the world.  

typically, the son of a male mayan ruler inherited the throne, but in 612 ce, king ac kan died and did not leave behind a male heir.

montezuma 1: even so, these wars of conquest failed to provide enough human sacrifices and because of this, he formed a triple alliance with cities in the valley of puebla-tlascala.  

in addition, montezuma realized that his government failed to the aztecs during the famine.

in order to appease him, montezuma increased the number of human sacrifices.

the aztec performed human sacrifices to their god huitzilopotchli because they believed he desired human blood.  

around 1440 ce, montezuma i became the fifth emperor of the aztecs and went on to rule for 28 years.  

soon after he assumed the throne, the aztecs were hit with a series of disasters, namely a plague of locusts, a flood, and a harsh frost  

huayna capac: huayna capac also fought to gain territories north of his empire in what is now ecuador.  

huayna capac significantly extended the inca empire to the south, into what is now argentina and chile.  

in 1493 ce, huayna capac became the eleventh ruler of the inca empire.  

huayna, therefore, wanted to gain his own lands and launched campaigns against tribes to the east and north of the empire.  

the inca empire reached its peak under the rule of huayna capac.

during this time the empire covered a vast territory including parts of present day colombia, peru, argentina, chile, bolivia, and ecuador.

during his reign, huayna heard about bearded men with pale skin that resembled the incan1 god viracocha and took this news as a bad omen.

huayna took this as another bad omen that predicted the destruction of the empire.

the assassination of president lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the u.s. after the civil war. the first reaction to lincoln’s death was disbelief. then it quickly changed to grief. abraham lincoln’s death created an outpouring of grief from citizens in both the north and the south.

explanation:

lincoln was the first u.s. president to be assassinated. president abraham lincoln, america’s civil war leader, was assassinated just five days after confederate general robert e. lee surrendered his army at appomattox court house, ending the four-year war between the states. on the evening of april 14, 1865, lincoln was attending a performance of our american cousin at ford’s theatre in washington, d.c. john wilkes booth – a 26-year old actor, confederate sympathizer, and white supremacist – slipped into the presidential box and shot lincoln in the head. john wilkes booth and his conspirators had initially planned to kidnap lincoln to save the confederate states. but as the confederacy faltered, booth’s thoughts turned to murder. booth may have decided to act on his hatred after lincoln endorsed giving the right to vote to african-american men who had served in the union army.