a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area. 6. What Spanish term is the name given to leaders of Spanish conquests? conquistadors 7. By the mid-sixteenth century, what areas of the globe did Spain control?
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was a Portuguese explorer and was famous for his exploration of the west coast of North America on behalf of Spain. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California.Not much is known about his early life, but Juan Rodriguez was born on 1499 in Castilla .Cabrillo served in the army of a famous conquistador Hernan Cortes, where he joined the conquest of Mexico and Guatemala. Cabrillo fought as a captain of crossbowmen in the battles between Aztecs and the Spanish. After the defeat of the Aztecs, Cabrillo joined different Spanish military expeditions in what today southern Mexico, Guatemala and San Salvador. By the 1530s Cabrillo established himself as a citizen of Santiago.
De Leon was pronounced the first European to step foot on new land, he called Florida. Ponce De Leon, a Spanish explorer was searching for the Foundation of Youth, which was said to be in the Bahamas but discovered the land we know as Florida and its features. In 1493, Ponce de León sailed with Christopher Columbus on Columbus' second voyage to the Americas. Juan and his family settled on an island named Hispaniola in the Caribbean. De Leon was one of the first Europeans to see the small island of Borinquen, which is the Indian name for Puerto Rico.
Precisely where Vineland was is not certain, but this place was part of Nort America. That leaves Leif Ericson the discoverer of America. John Cabot- John Cabot was an Italian explorer who set sail in 1497. While Christopher Columbus was exploring the West Indies John Cabot went farther north, he sailed on the permission of Henry VII of England. He sailed across the North Atlantic and reached the coast America North of Scotia.
The English try to mingle with the natives but in the end they end up fighting. The English fight the Powhatan Tribe and end up killing a lot of them. This movie shows the way settlers and explorers were in the exploration age. The European countries would go to the “New World” and already act like they have owned it forever. The lust for gold drove the English to the Americas and to set up colonies.
Journal 1 By Aryan Study Guide PAGE 88 Comprehension 1 Cabeza De Vaca was a Spanish nobleman who set out on an expedition to the Gulf Coast in the 16th century. His sparkling career was cut short when his ships got wrecked off the coast of present day Texas and he found himself enslaved by the Han and Capoque clans of the Karankawa Indians. This passage talks about how he survived among the Native American groups and the skills and strategies he used to fit in. The first thing that Cabeza De Vaca did to assimilate with the Native American culture was to learn their language. This was a pivotal step because without being able to express himself he would never have been able to free himself from slavery.
While in “The Treasure of Sierra Madre”, Dobbs actually dies from his greed by turning on Curtin and attempting to kill him, but he starts to go crazy and gets killed by Gold Hat, a Mexican bandit that they had run into before. Also, Wetherton and Howard seem to both understand the dangers of gold mining. Wetherton was always alert when it came to mining the dangerous gold, and even reminded himself about the evils that gold had on a man. In the movie, Howard would always give a certain look and say a few lines about similar stories and how greed can kill. Cody, a character in “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” that had met Curtin in town and followed him back, had the exact same motives as
Millions of natives in the New World died due to European illness making it easier for the Spanish Conquistadors to move in and take over much of the Americas. Balboa in 1513 discovers the Ithsmas of Panama and becomes the first European to set eyes on the Pacific Ocean from the east. The explorations to the new world continued and 1519-1522- Magellan sailed around the world proving that Columbus did not find
Christopher Columbus “sailed the ocean blue” in 1492. He is given so much credit for not being the first persons who settled on American land, actually Native Americans (the Arawaks) were already living there. Although Columbus came about American land which he called “The Indies”, he was set out on his voyage to find Asia, Columbus did not expect to find the Americas, not to mention how welcoming and generous the Arawaks were- he clearly took advantage of them by leading to killing all Arawaks , allowing them to become nonexistent, he also is given credit because he “proved the world is round” actually, he was not the first person that proved this- therefore, Columbus was falsely given credit for finding the Americas, proving “the world is round,” and should not be considered a hero or have a holiday for his unexpected finding and cruel treatment to the
Going to Hispaniola himself in 1502 as a member of new royal governor’s party, Casas soon was participating eagerly in the exploitation of the natives”(35). In his writing History of the Indies he states, “went about his concerns like the others, sending his share of Indians to work fields and gold mines, taking advantage of them as much as he could”. Around 1515 after becoming a priest, Casas writes about his moral blindness in this period