They started a colony, called Darien. The captain and Balboa, started fighting, because, they both wanted to be in charge. The captain lost, and went back to Spain, and Balboa became governor of Darien. Then, Balboa set out to explore the surrounding country, hoping to find gold. Since he was very nice, he won him the friendship of the Indians.
10. When Columbus landed in the New World, he believed that he had reached the Indies; thus, he thought, the people he met were Indians. Even though more than 500 years have passed since that voyage, the native people of the Americas are still often referred to as “Indians 11. Before Columbus was a famous admiral and governor of the New World, he was a pirate, or Privateer, who helped attack Moorish merchant trips 12. Columbus was very religious and believed God had called him to make his voyages.
This increase in power made many countries and governments hungry for more power and would do anything to find it. The only thing that stood between Europe and the East were the Muslims. Europeans had been searching for a cheaper and easier route to the East for quite some time but when Marco Polo came back from his almost twenty year journey to China, their desire to find this new route became even more intense. Marco Polo brought back with him tales of luxurious items like rose-tinted pearls and golden pagodas. they realized more than ever that they needed to find this new route to the East.
What Columbus actually wanted was the lands, gold, silver since he was promised 10%of the profits and the title “admiral of the sea” for bringing back gold, spices. When he saw some Arawak with gold earrings, he was forced to imprison them and lead him to the gold. No gold was found but because of his absurd and exaggerated report his 2nd expedition was given more ships and men to get the gold and slaves hence the great slave raid of 1945.after this Arawaks fought back with little success and the mass suicides began to save themselves from the Spaniards.
De León entered the Charlotte Harbor area. As he and his men explored inland for wood and fresh water, as they saw the Calusa tribal village at Mound Key, they knew that the Calusa were an unfriendly tribe. The explorers quickly fled to their ships and may their way back to Puerto Rico. In 1521, Ponce de León returned to Florida again to form a colony. He came with over 200 settlers, horses, tools, and seeds expecting set up a farming colony.
tAINO(arawaks) Columbus and his crew, landing on an island in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492 were the first Europeans to encounter the Taíno people. Columbus wrote: They traded with us and gave us everything they had, with good will..They took great delight in pleasing us...They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor do they murder or steal….Your highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people..They love their neighbors as themselves, and they have the sweetest talk in the world, and are gentle and always laughing. It was Columbus who called the Taínos "Indians", an identification that has grown to encompass all the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The word "Indian" was an invention
The roman empire the economy system got weak. The economy system got weak because of the tribes and pirates outside of the empire disrupting the trade. Trying to expand to their limit, the romans had less of new sources like silver and gold. Extremely desperate for the new sources the government raised all of the taxes. They started to cheat people out of their silver and gold by putting less and less of silver and gold in their metal.
After the ten year termination, the exclusion act was reenacted without a terminal date. Along with the new immigration law came rebellion; foreigners neglected the law and crossed the border. With time immigration had such a major increase that the government had to enforce the law by protecting its border. To protect its border the government built a fence, a fence that was not able to control immigrants from bringing their families to the land of opportunity. Families fled from their country to the United States in order for their children to have a brighter future in the land of opportunities.
The Jamestown settlers’ motivation for coming to America was one similar to that of the Roanoke settlers. They hoped to find gold, a water route to Asia, and make money for the shareholders in England. The status of the settlers varied dramatically. About half of them were of the English gentry, while the rest were tradesmen. Subsequently, the settlement became highly dysfunctional since the English gentleman refused to do work that was necessary to the colonies survival.
As sailors and navigators on board Spanish galleons, Filipinos -- also known as "Manila men" or Spanish-speaking Filipinos -- jumped ship to escape the brutality of their Spanish masters. They built houses on stilts along the gulf ports of New Orleans and were the first in the United States to introduce the sun-drying process of shrimp. Living in the United States, Filipino immigrants experienced racial discrimination from others, as well as themselves. Many Filipino immigrants who immigrated to the United States in the first wave discriminated against new waves of Filipino immigrants. They had also had to find out how they fit in to American society, and keep their own cultural identity.