Juan Ponce de León

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    213) Columbus claimed the island for Spain and renamed it San Juan Bautista. The Spanish crown began to rule and colonized the island. On his second voyage to the New World, Juan Ponce de Leon, who around the same time was colonizing the island of Hispaniola, accompanied Columbus. In 1508, Ponce de Leon was permitted consent to survey the island by Queen Isabella, and established Caparra (a port), where the island first mining and…

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    conquistadores or conquers explored the Americas for God, gold, and glory in the 1500s • Vasco Nuñez Balboa found the Pacific Ocean in 1513 • Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe during his travels from 1519 to 1522 • Juan Ponce de León went to Florida for gold in 1513 and 1521 but was killed by an Indian arrow • Francisco Coronado explored Arizona and New Mexico reaching Kansa for golden cities, but only found adobe villages o He found the Grand Canyon and buffalo…

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    The first inhabitants of modern-day Puerto Rico are the Tainos. This group of Indians were a subgroup of the Arawakan. The Tainos started to live in Puerto Rico, approximately 1000 AD. This group of Indians lived in small villages. They were gatherers and hunters. The crops they grew consisted of cassava, garlic, potatoes, sapota, guava and sugar apple. The Tainos were religious, believing in many gods. They believed that being in the good grace of their semis protected them from natural…

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    In 1493, Christopher Columbus landed in Puerto Rico, during the second voyage he called it San Juan Bautista. Later in 1508, the Spanish permitted settlement rights to Juan Ponce de Leon, who established a settlement at Caparra and became the first governor. In 1519, “Caparra relocated to a nearby coastal islet with a healthier environment, it was renamed Puerto Rico” (“Every Culture”). Puerto Rico is the easternmost and smallest of the Greater Antilles and is connected by the Atlantic Ocean.…

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    ship full of slave in 1511. But nine year later, the slaves revolted, because of ill treatment, and staged the first slave uprising in the New World. The King of Spain sent many explorers to establish colonies in the New World, such as Vasco Nunez de Balboa, who sailed throughout…

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    Taino Indians came from South America, and inhabited the island of Puerto Rico when the Spaniards arrived. The Spaniards, when they first arrived, called the island San Juan Bautista for St. John the Baptist and the town Puerto Rico. It was not until later that the two names were switched. Puerto Rico meaning rich port. San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico and the most populous city in Puerto Rico. Spanish and English are the official languages, but Spanish is the dominant language of the…

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    The early advent of the sixteenth century presents Loíza as a Taino Arawak Indian settlement, situated on the eastern area of the banks of the Cayrabon River (presently called Rio Grande de Loíza) at the time of the Spanish conquest of Puerto Rico in 1508, led by the leadership of Juan Ponce de Leon. First named Jaymanio by the Indians, the settlement was under the rule of the indigenous chieftess Yuiza when the Spaniards arrived. Believed to have married Pedro Mexia, a Spanish-born “mulatto”…

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    continued along the gulf coast and later on the mississippi river. Many members died due to severe weather along the way. De vacas boat got wrecked on an island in texas which led to only four men surviving including de Vaca. After being shipwrecked, the men got captured, but escaped close to six years later. The journeyed on foot getting help along the way from native americans. Later, de Vaca returned to Spain, writing about his travels in the first European…

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    experiment. His friends all lived their lives in vain ways. They were people with much remorse. He explains the experiment with a flower he had saved many years ago (55 years). The vase had water that belonged to the fountain of youth that Juan Ponce de León himself had searched for years. The doctor places the dried and withered flower in the water and everyone can see the restoration of the flower. Everyone except Dr. Heidegger took the water. Everyone had a new opportunity to amend their…

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    Revitalization movement against the Spaniards, successfully killing and driving them out of New Mexico. France was also a society of inclusion, but instead of enslaving the Natives, they became trade partners with them, specifically the Huron tribe. A coureur de bois was someone who traded with the Native Americans for the much desired fur. However, the French used Jesuit Monks who were much more tolerant towards Native American traditions, allowing them to incorporate them into Catholic…

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