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Early Life
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was born in Salamanca, Spain, around 1510. His parents are Juan Vasquez de Coronado y Sosa de Ulloa and Isabel de Lujan. His father was a wealthy aristocrat, but the family fortune was promised to his older brother. Francisco was determined to make his own fortune in the New World. This is what made him an explorer.
Francisco traveled to New Spain in 1535. He got a job working for the government. Within three years of his arrival, he had put down a slave rebellion, become governor of Nueva Galicia, and had married Dona Beatriz, the daughter of the colonial treasurer. But he wanted more. He set out, convinced by the rumors of cities of gold, but what he found wasn’t what he was looking for.
Exploration
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado explored the American Southwest, starting his exploration in 1540. This region included Kansas, Arizona, and New Mexico. He was sent out to this region by New Spain. Before it was explored, the American Southwest region was occupied by many Native Americans. Francisco explored this land because...
Francisco Pizarro was born in 1476 in Trujillo, Spain. Pizarro grew up not knowing how to read. His dad, Captain Gonzalo, was a poor farmer and his mom, Francisca González was a from a humble heritage. In 1510, Pizarro joined Spanish explorer Alonzo de Ojeda on a journey to Urabá, Colombia. In 1522, Francisco Pizarro tried to explore South America. While ...
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, born as Juana Ramirez de Azbaje, is a well-known extraordinary figure from the colonial period. Sor Juana had a desire for education at such a young age. In the seventeenth century, it was the intellectual midpoint of Spanish colonial America. During this time Mexico City was politically and religiously the center of New Spain; the terrains went from California to Central America. In Latin American history the church and state defined women’s roles, which eventually change over time. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz articulated her experiences though writing, she broke silence about racial and gender inequality, and her legacy remains today.
In 1514 de Soto sailed with the new governor of modern day Panama. Six years later he was a captain who because of his part in military action against the Indians of Panama had earned the right to own Indian Sl...
In 1492, Christopher Columbus was a self-made man who worked his way up to being the Captain of a merchant vessel. He gained the support of the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, for an expedition to the Indies. With the support of the Spanish monarchy, he set off to find a new and faster trade route to the Indies. Upon the arrival of his first voyage, Columbus wrote a letter to Luis de Santangel, a “royal official and an early supporter of his venture,” in February 1493 (35). The epistle, letter, entitled “Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage” was copied and then distributed in Spain before being translated and spread throughout Europe. The Letter is held in such regard with the people as it is considered the first printed description of the new world. Through his description of the nature of the islands, Columbus decided the future fate of the islands. His description of the vast beauty of the nature around him, declares both the economic and nationalistic motivations for colonizing the new world.
“Did you know that Juan N Seguin was a Texas Senator, Mayor, Judge, and Justice of the Peace? Seguin was born in 1806 into a long-established tejano family in San Antonio. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, Stephen Austin a friend of Seguín’s father received Mexican approval to found settlements of English-speaking people in the Mexican territory of Texas. Seguín and his father, convinced that Spanish-Mexican unrest and Mexican governmental interference were contributing to
Francisco Pizarro was a conquistador born in Trujillo, Spain in about 1471. His father, Gonzalo Pizarro, was an infantry captain and he taught Francisco how to fight at an early age. Francisco Pizarro never learned to read and write but he was full of adventure.
Tiburcio Vasquez was Born in Monterey in 1835. He was descended from one of earliest settlers of California. His great-grandfather arrived in California as a young man with the DeAnza expedition of 1776. His criminal career began in 1852, at 17 when he attended a local fandango with his older cousin, Anastacio Garcia. When a fight broke out, Constable William Hardmount was killed. Even though they weren’t directly involved in the killing they still fled the scene. Jose Higuera, one of Vasquez’s friends who was at the fight didn’t flee and was hanged by vigilantes the next day. While hiding in the hills with his cousin he picked up the “outlaw business”. He joined a gang of other desperados, and eventually became the leader of his own group.
Americo Paredes was an Mexican-American born in Brownsville,Texas September 3, 1915 and died May 5, 1999 in Austin, Texas. Americo Paredes was an author and for example wrote “With his Pistol In His Hand”. He was famous for his famous books and also his music.
Ponce De Leon was born into a noble family. Boys born in noble families learned to be knights. Juan learned to use weapons, ride horses, and hunt. In 1493 Juan learned of Christopher Columbus finding America. That year, Juan went along on Columbus’ second trip to Santo Domingo to explore the Americas. During the early 1500’s Ponce De Leon built settlements in Hispaniola which is now known as the Dominican Republic. On one of his return trips to Spain, he married a woman named Leonora and had three
Juan Ponce De Leon was born in 1460 in Santervas de Campos, Spain, into a destitute yet noble family. As a minor, he trained as a page in the court of Aragon, where he learned social skills, religion, and military tactics. As an adolescent, he trained as a knight and fought at the Moors in Granada. He was first introduced to sailing when he volunteered to accompany Christopher Columbus on his second expedition to Hispaniola in 1493 at the age of 33. He soon set out to be a Spanish explorer and was sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. When he
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Spanish 10th essay Ponce De Leon Don Juan Ponce de Leon "To bad he had to kick the bucket!" Don Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish conqueror and explorer. He was born around 1460 in San Tervas de Campos, Spain. Ponce de Leon lived in an age of great discovery and excitement. Ponce de Leon is well known, claiming and naming what is now Florida, the discovery of Puerto Rico, and his never-ending search for the old time classic, the Fountain of Youth! On November 19, 1493 Ponce de Leon was one of the first Europeans to see the small island of Borinquen, the Indian name for Puerto Rico.