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.…
Which explorer had the greatest impact? Juan Ponce de Leon because he accompanied Christopher Columbus on his 1493 voyage Ponce de León was a member of this expedition, one of 200 "gentleman volunteers. " They took the second voyage to America He and his family settled on an island in the Caribbean named Hispaniola (Dominican Republic). De Leon A decade later, he was serving as governor of the eastern province of Hispaniola when he decided to explore a nearby island, which became Puerto Rico.…
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, the general of the Mexican army, was intelligent, dynamic, ambitious, and egocentric. He was so smart that he dropped out of school and quit his apprenticeship to a merchant because he was intellectually unchallenged. In relation to this, Anna never stopped moving; if he did, he would collapse into a spiral of gambling and wenching. To say the least, he was quite the vehement man. Anna, as described by Donald J. Mabry, had an “immediate concern to be on the winning side in any battle… switching allegiance never troubled him.”…
Pedro de Alvarado was a hispanic soldier, conqueror, and conquistador. He was born in Bandajoz, Spain, around 1485. He had blond hair, blue eyes, and light skin, which was rare for his Hispanic heritage. The native people nicknamed him "tonatiuh" which means the god of the sun, because of his rare appearance . He married two different woman in his lifetime.…
“Why were the outnumbered Spanish conquistador able to easily defeat the Native Americans of South and Central America? what was the reasons? what did the spanish did to be on the top of the war? Even though the spanish were outnumbered by Native Americans the Spanish were able to defeat the Native American easily. There are four important reasons the make this thing happen.”…
Juan later than became governor of the colony. In 1512 Juan discovered a land we know today as Florida. Although Juan did not colonize Florida he made an impact on his life. Two decades later a new explorer arrived which was known as De Soto. De Soto led his mens to what is now Georgia and the Carolinas.…
One voyage that is brought up in every history class is Columbus “discovering” the New World. It is said that Christopher Columbus founded America, but in reality people have been living in the New World long before Columbus “discovered” it. Columbus’ discovery changed the way the Native Americans and Europeans lived. When Columbus landed in America, he wrote a letter to the King Sanchez and Queen Isabella.…
THE HISTORY OF PONCE DE LEON HALL Flagler College’s Ponce de Leon hall, located at 74 King St, St Augustine, Florida, was built in 1888 by architects John Carrére and Thomas Hastings, who were still new to the field at the time (Horn). The main building of the hall is now used mostly for student housing purposes, but the exterior architectural features and domed lobby space showcase impressive design features and elements of styles that we have covered this semester (Branch). It originally served as a hotel and “luxury resort,” before being converted to collegiate use 47 years ago. Today, the hall is considered a “National Historic Landmark” and “masterpiece” of “Spanish Renaissance architecture” in the 19th century, and boasts many similarities…
Ponce De Leon’s early life consisted of him sailing with Pizarro and Columbus when he was on his first journey with Pizarro he was one of his men and the one that kidnapped and killed the Incan Emperor Atahualpa. When he sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage he encountered natives again and brutally murdered them,pillaged,and took all of the tribe’s resources for the glory of Spain and for Christopher Columbus. Once Juan Ponce De Leon set sail with about 200 men(Including his captain Alexo Suarez),he was intent on finding gold and riches,but his real prize was to find the Fountain of Youth.…
The English and Spanish differences during the Age of Exploration within their government, religion, and economy led to many advantages and disadvantages that changed the New World’s fate. The Spanish were the first to arrive to North America, and mainly wanted to explore. They were motivated by gold, glory, and god. Their government was tight, watched strictly, and rich.…
Whether or not a settlement succeeded depended on how the settlers relationship with three things: their people, their neighbors, and their land. The Spanish, French, Dutch and the English all had different experiences with these three things and their reaction to them decided whether or not the settlement would succeed. Looking at the English colonies: New England, Chesapeake, the Middle Colonies, South Carolina and the Indies, we can see the same three things apply.…
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.…
He not only went and discovered the New World but he also brought back riches, spices, and goods back to Spain which also helped boost the Spanish economy. Among these great things he did, he also asserted unnecessary violence to get these things. He forced most to convert to Christianity “I gave them a thousand pretty things that I had bought, in order to gain their love and incline them to become Christians” (Christopher Columbus, Letter on his first voyage. Pg. 118) and give him their riches, spices, and goods. To the Spanish people he looked like a hero.…
From 1450 to 1700, the world saw navigational advancements that led to a competition among Europe for the land and resources across the Atlantic Ocean, and how each country could profit from these discoveries. Europe’s Age of Exploration introduced new economic theories and practices that affected many countries thereafter by impacting economies on both a local and global scale. For more than two centuries, Western Europe’s Atlantic expansion brought economic prosperity specifically to Spain and England through each nation’s colonies and the introduction of slave labor. At the time of the Age of Exploration, Spain was one of, if not the, most powerful country when it came to navigation and colonization.…
Christopher Columbus is credited with making a discovery that changed history. Before his discovery of the new world there had been no contact across the Atlantic Ocean borders. For Columbus, and his European party, this finding lead to riches and new lands for their respected countries. Another positive part of this finding of new land were people, cultures, and goods This encounter however for Indians brought an uninvited guess that wanted their land, crops, and riches. Europeans also exposed Indians to new religion, technologies, and diseases.…