De Vaca was one of the four survivors on the Narvaez expedition. That expedition landed in Florida. He was in Florida the year 1528. The crew was hit by storms and rough waters and so most of them did not make it to Florida. They ran out of food.…
Did you know that Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish explorer, participated in two trips to this region? To tell the truth, neither trip ended successfully. In the summer of 1527, he was treasurer of an expedition that was sent to conquer and colonize Florida.…
Christopher Columbus made a letter to Luis de Santangel about his journey. The letter was written on Feb. 15, 1493 and was delivered on March 4, 1493. The told the main land that columbus had found islands in the indian ocean, but he did not know that he had found the start of the Americas. He said that china was near by and found the native people. In his letter it says that his trip was a success and he had found inhabited islands by lots of men.…
Francisco Pizarro was in need of a way to earn money. He went to the king and queen, who offered him money to make an expedition in 1532 to Peru, where he founded Lima. Him and his crew of over 500 men traveled to Peru to claim land. It took them over 7 months to reach Peru, and they found an interesting surprise. They were not expecting a colony of Incas and their leader, Atahualpa.…
Florida is such a rich and diverse piece of Earth that many nations wanted ownership of it. It was originally claimed by Spanish conquistadors in 1513 and then transferred into British ownership in 1763, only to be turned back over the Spaniards 20 years later in 1783. Florida then became a U.S. territory in 1822 and won its statehood in 1845. Florida also had a very rich and diverse Native American population before conquest by the Spanish.…
Thomas Nuttall was an explorer/botanist who began his excursion in 1819. Nuttall collected plant sampled. Thomas was a lover of nature and all things concerning wild life. He joined men to head to the Red River. Nuttall contributed to collecting information about the people of Oklahoma as well as the resources.…
Not long after, Pizarro became mayor of Panama City, and accumulated a small fortune. Not wasting anytime, the rumor that a very rich and wealthy Incan Empire was rising had reached Pizarro, and again with a strong lust for gold, he set out to find the empire. After seeing the immense riches of modern day Peru, Francisco traveled back to spain to recruit reinforcements so he could conquer the Incan Empire. King Charles of Spain had given him ships and soldiers, and when he alas had infiltrated the King Atahualpa’s house, he held him at ransom and stole gold and silver. Even though Pizarro was given everything he demanded, he still had Atahualpa killed.…
The primary document, Thomas Jefferson’s secret message primarily talked about how making the Indians more civil such as teaching them to be more domestic and give up hunting will be beneficial to the economy of the United States. The letter did not tell a significant amount about Louis and Clark’s expedition. The reader has a substantial amount of emotion and description causing it to pull the reader in making the reader feel more compassion for their difficult journey. The reader also tell more about the journey its self that Louis and Clark took over all making it a more accurate description when dealing with the journey. Therefore the reader would be more appropriate to use if you were wanting to know more in detail about Louis and Clarks…
In the prologue of his account of the disastrous Narváez Expedition Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca wrote, “In this way you will know and understand the manner of the lands and the provinces in them, what foods and animals grow there, the customs of the many barbarous nations with which I had contact and lived, and many other details that I was able to experience”.1 While this was directed at the contemporary Spanish Emperor Charles V it also serves to indicate to modern scholars the vast amount of information contained within the text. As a primary source document Cabeza De Vaca's Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition is invaluable in helping the aforementioned scholars to understand the interactions between the native populous of North America and…
Hernando De Soto Hernando De Soto was born in the 1500's in Jerez De Los Caballeros, Spain. He was a Spainard explorer and a conquistador. He was born into a noble but also born in a poor family.…
The early exploration of Florida started when Ponce de León and Christopher Columbus started another exploration to the Americas. Ponce de León found a close island called Borinquen. When he was there he found large amounts of gold. He left , but he came back again in 1508 because the king wanted him to go back, but explore and colonise the land. He named the island Puerto Rico.…
These letters written by Hernan Cortes who was a Spaniard conquistador who first conquest of Cuba and thereafter turn his head to the Mexico to conquest as well. In 1519 he sorted out attack of Mexico. Thereafter, he arrived in Mexico on April 22, 1519. By 1521, he had taken all the control of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan ( Mexico City ).After his conquest of Mexico , Spanish chroniclers offered him to write what he saw in Mexico, thereafter he had to write these letters to show what he see in Mexico.…
At the middle school level, units of study that can be integrated across multiple subject areas can be an effective method for increasing student understanding. Integrated units allow students to think and process information in a manner that is consistent with how they will think and process information when they are done with school. Life does not present people with a series of math problems followed by a series of English questions. In life, subjects are an interwoven tapestry that we all have to navigate (Wormeli 137).…
Trailblazers: The Success of the Spanish Colonies The fate of global civilization was radically changed when Christopher Columbus embarked for the New World in 1492, launching the leading European powers into a race for colonization and exploration. During this time, each country achieved varying degrees of success by employing different tactics to best conquer the uncharted territory of the Americas; for example, the French exploited the trade of beaver pelts to obtain territory and economic success (Kennedy & Cohen 99). Many of these European colonies grew into flourishing cities and centers of culture and newfound traditions. However, especially in the case of the Spanish conquest, each colony faced adversity when interacting with the indigenous…
Machu Picchu, the Hidden Place The city of Machu Picchu, which comes from the Quechua language, has been abandoned by the Incas of Cusco for over three-hundred years. It also stands in the Andes Mountains and lingers over the Urubamba River. It’s elevated 10,000 feet and has walls that not even a credit card can not slide through, puzzling archaeologists for many years (Schreiber 1). Machu Picchu, located in Peru, is a place filled with amazing artifacts and ruins. The buildings’ architecture and underground waterway infrastructures have baffled many scientists and archaeologists, especially the way the Incas irrigate their crops.…