Juan Ponce De Leon Juan ponce de leon was born a spanish nobility in 1460. He served as a page in the royal court of Aragon. When he was done he went fighting as a soldier in a spanish campaign against the Moors in Granada. He may have accompanied Christopher Columbus on a voyage to the new world which is now puerto rico in 1493. He lead an expedition to the coast of what's now Florida.…
Explain why American Indians were so diverse in 1491. Before 1491, the New World remained untouched and relatively undiscovered by Europeans. Native American tribes had developed unique cultures and customs similarly to how Europe had many different countries. Without horses to make transport easier and with varied climates, the tribes remained more or less separated from one another and therefore developed vastly different ways of life and adaptations to the land. Because tribes outside of a close proximity rarely contacted each other, a myriad of languages developed with little resemblance to one another.…
In 1475-1480, Alonso de La Parr Gonzalez and his wife Catalina Suarez gave birth to a son. Whom, they baptized the named Ruy Gonzalez, who will grow up to be a future Conquistador soldier. A soldier who will claim victory in all the “Conquest” he participated for “The Spanish Crown”. Later he went on to help with the growth expansion of all newly expanded cities in the Spanish colony established along the way for the Spain Crown. He was a gallant worrier who fought along side with Hernando Cortez’s in “The Conquest of Mexico”.…
Reputation gain. Riches. Discovery. Religion. All of these are goals Columbus and de las Casas are both set on the objective to find in the “New World’s”, but with de la Casas comes clear that changing humanity instead was his true prime achievement in all of this.…
The interaction between the explorers from Western Europe and the indigenous people of North and South America was shaped by the different cultures and beliefs that each come from. Over the course of several hundreds of years, many different explorers from Western Europe made the voyage to the Americas. Whether they were exploring the different bodies of land in the search of riches, or conquering the indigenous people that resided there, the attitudes of the men that traveled there were shaped by their own beliefs and values that were instilled in them by their home country. This is evident in Hernan Cortes’s account of the Aztec Empire. Sent by the Spanish monarch Charles V, Cortes was meant to find treasure and wealth and bring it back to Spain.…
During the nineteenth century, the United States believed they were destined to expand their territory. What drove the Americans during that era was the desire to further allocate more land and spread their ideals to the whole of society. This need to gain more territory was not the only motive for the United States, instead it included the want to enhance their political, social, and economic standing to the world. This belief, however, was not the first time to be seen throughout history. It has been read in history books that even during the sixteenth century, the Spanish wanted to expand their kingdom in order to solidify their rule.…
I believe the conquistadors were aware of the damage they were inflicting. Deep down they had to have felt guilty in some way, especially if they felt the need to recite the requiermiento before conquering a native establishment. There were very few reasons for conquistadors to justify their presence in the southwest other than for wealth or glory. Coronado's whole expedition point was to search and confirm the riches that laid in the seven cities of Cibola. Coronado wanted to make his own wealth.…
Throughout the years there has been much controversy on what events in history have influenced the world the most. Many scholars have agreed that both the Spanish conquest and colonization of Mexico and the Caribbean and the U.S. acquisition of Mexican and Caribbean territories are important turning points in history that have helped shape the social, economic, political and cultural characteristics of different Latin American countries. In order to comprehend the great importance of the Spanish and the American’s invasions, the reader must analyze the readings of Born in Blood & Fire by John Charles Chasteen and Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez. Both of these works are useful in discerning ideas that make the Spanish conquest and colonization and the U.S. acquisition similar and different. The Spanish conquest and colonization of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the U.S. acquisition of territories are similar because both had a racial and hierarchical, political and social system that rose from the transculturation of different races but different because they had different ideas on what Manifest Destiny meant, and they imposed their invasions in different ways.…
History scholars Helen Nader, author of “Desperate men, Questionable Acts: The Moral Dilemma of Italian Merchants in the Spanish Slave Trade,” and Amanda Kay McVety, author of “The 1903 Skinner Mission: Images of Ethiopia in the Progressive Ear,” use two different themes in order to describe the superiority feelings of groups of people toward other inferior parties. However, these two scholars conduct this analysis during time periods that over four centuries apart. Nader employs the moral dilemma surrounding slavery of Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Monarchy as a way to describe their superiority perceptions toward Native Americans.…
¨When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew¨, (William Shakespeare). Is awesome how some people, moments, and memories can become important in our life. Such as meeting your love life is wonderful, but even more if you remember every second of memories you have lived with that special person. In my case, when I first meet Juan Garcia I never realized how special he was going to be in my life.…
THE PUEBLO REVOLT In 1680 the people best-referred to assemble as "Pueblos" opposed their Spanish overlords in the American Southwest. Spaniards had commanded them, their lives, their territory, and their souls for eight decades. The Spanish had set up and kept up their control with dread, beginning with Juan de Oñate's attack in 1598. At the point when the people of Acoma opposed, Oñate requested that one leg be cut from each man more than fifteen and consequently the rest of the populace be in subjugation, setting an example that kept going four-score years.…
The Spanish-American war has recently ended. Money, resources, and troops have been lost. A big question that I have been asked by President William McKinely has been wandering around in my mind. Should the U.S Annex the Philippines? The Spanish-American war has lasted three months and we have lost many soldiers.…
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…
“The ‘Wretched Indians’: What We Don’t Learn in History Books” The Spanish Conquest as we know it has been largely painted as a valiant and remarkable achievement deemed justifiable through widely-accepted perceptions of European superiority. Indeed, when taught about these expeditions, rarely are we given sources that encourage us to picture the Indigenous peoples fighting on the same side as the Spaniards; After all, the textbooks say they were the ‘bad guys’ to beat, right? Matthew Restall’s Seven Myths of The Spanish Conquest reveals the subjective perceptions of the Spanish Conquest in an attempt to help modify the erroneous aspects of the Indigenous peoples’ narrative. In addition, as noted by Restall, even William H. Prescott, a historian…
While the idea that the arrival of Europeans to “The New World” brought upon the indigenous cultures of America no small amount of strife and misery, as well as fame and fortune upon the Spanish is widely accepted as fact, there is limitless dissention among historians about the true history of the conquest of “New Spain”. One event that exemplifies this dissention is that of the Siege of Tenochtitlan. In the following analysis I will describe and discuss two conflicting accounts that document this occasion (The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz). The accounts are conflicting in the way each author presents certain events of the siege and manipulates them to represent their…