Some decades ago there was a Spanish conquistador man called Juan Ponce de Leon. He was an explorer and an adventurer. Juan Ponce de Leon was an arrogant self-centered man who only cared for his appearance. He was always spot on with what he wore, consisting of a long sleeve white collared shirt, armored chest-plate, and a feathered hat. Apart from being arrogant and self-centered he was a really intelligent man and a resourceful one too, I mean someone with half his intelligence would’ve never been able to do half the things this man was capable of doing in his life time. His story started in the year 1493. Juan Ponce de Leon decided to sail with Christopher Columbus in his second voyage to the new world. They built a settlement on Hispaniola. After they moved to Santo Domingo. Many of the Europeans wanted to get rich fast and return to Spain, Ponce decided to settle in Santo Domingo. In the time he was in Santo Domingo Ponce decided to fool around with women, he took none of them serious. During that time of fooling around four children were born, three girls and one boy. His daughter’s names were Juana, María, Isabel, and his son was called Luis. In 1509 Ponce de Leon sailed to San Juan Bautista too look for gold. Ponce de Leon took four small ships and three big ones; he took three hundred people with him on his voyage. It didn’t take them long to get to San Juan Bautista, but the ride sure wasn’t a smooth sail for Ponce and his men. A storm was passing by and everyone in the ships was scared. They started tugging, pulling and knotting the boats sails, they were all over the place running and trying their best to keep their ships afloat. The next morning the storm had already passed by; two small ships were missing, so that me... ... middle of paper ... ...drinks or bathes in its waters. While the Tainos were talking to Ponce de Leon about the Fountain of Youth in his head he was already planning on how he was going to get to it. The Tainos told Ponce the Leon that the fountain was supposedly located in the island of Bimini and they clearly stated that the fountain was a myth that had been around for years. Ponce de Leon went back to the port were he was settled to start planning his adventure to the island of Bimini so he can get to the Fountain of Youth. On the next day a group of Tainos went over to Ponce de Leon to notify they had found gold in the town of Caparra near a beautiful port. Once he saw how much gold there was he decided to name the port “Puerto Rico” translating in English to rich port. He had all of that gold compromised, he was planning in using it to search for the Fountain of Youth.
One question posed by the authors is “How did Columbus’s relationship with the Spanish crown change over time, and why?” In simple terms, Columbus’s relationship with the
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.
There are No Children Here; by Alex Kotlowitz is a story about two brothers and their mother, Pharaoh, Lafayette and LaJoe Rivers and them growing up in the late 1980's in the (HHH) Henry Horner Homes, a housing project in Chicago. In the story the boys try to retain their youthfulness while they see constant gang violence, death of people close to them and their brother is in jail and their dad is struggling with drug addiction.
Firstly, the Caribbean smuggling was viewed as necessary and positive in the late eighteenth century. According to William Taggart, a British sailor traveling to testify at his smuggling trial in April 1760, the illegal transportation of goods from the Spanish port of Monte Christi led to general prosperity in the area, as there were only 100 relatively poor families and that the governor had full knowledge of this and demanded a tax of one silver Spanish coin. Taggart mi...
This text was created to bring to light the hardship Natives went through during the Age of Exploration. The populous, who only hear rumors and short stories from all territories west of the Atlantic Ocean, cannot grasp the tough and difficult task that is at hand in the Americas. From these short blurbs of what is said about the west, they make inferences of what it is like, and how it is possible for another land mass to be unknown to many for so long. But for those who do know what is past the Atlantic, know that this Agenda of the King and Queen must be fulfilled and to do so would be to claim land for Spain for it to be settled upon. On top of that is to further collect the riches of the Americas to benefit Spain in the conquest of the Americas.
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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...
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.
For my final project I chose to compare two works of art from ancient Mesopotamia. A visual work of art and a literary one. The visual work of art I chose was the Statuettes of Worshipers which were created around 2900 to 2350 BCE at the Square Temple at Eshnunna, a city in ancient Mesopotamia. The literary artwork I have chosen is the Epic of Gilgamesh written roughly around 2800 BCE by author or authors unknown. It was set in Uruk, another city in ancient Mesopotamia. Both of these works of art share a common theme; the theme of immortality. It is my hopes that within this paper I can accurately show how each of these works of art express this theme, and how it relates to modern society.
The search for the "fountain of youth" or the "elixir of life" is something that we have read about in many myths and fiction stories throughout the year. They are also things real life explorers looked for dating back centuries, the most famous of which is Ponce de Leon whose search of this elusive fountain took him to Florida in the late 1400 's and early 1500 's. However, He was not the first looking for this fountain that is said to give you the power of endless youth, the desire to stay young is a desire that may date back to the beginning of mankind itself. Although, as civilization has advanced through the centuries most people have given up on magical fountain and elixirs that extends your life while making you young again, and turned to
From my earliest childhood I remember the open country between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande; the vast expanse of territory that our early historians do not mention in the days of early history. Sometimes I have wondered why it is that our forefathers who helped with their money, their supplies, and their own energies have been entirely forgotten. (Zamora O’Shea n.p.)
After Ponce de Leon finally arrived in Puerto Rico, he became the governor of the island. This caused him to become very wealthy, and the most powerful man on the island, who only received orders from the kind himself! In 1511 King Ferdinand ordered Ponce de Leon replaced as governor by Diego Columbus. Life for Ponce de Leon would have been difficult if he stayed in Puerto Rico since much of his power over the island was taken when his rank was taken away. It was at this time that Ponce de Leon began his search for the Fountain of Youth.
Gold was the resource that attracted Spaniards to the Island of Hispaniola, because it was also King Ferdinand's interest (De la Riva 2003 ). Thus it ended up becoming the ultimate goal of the Christian Spaniards sent to Hispaniola to acquire gold and swell themselves in riches. (Las Casas 1552).Trading was also the key to getting wealthy; the more resources available for trade the more wealth will be gained. Resources in the New World attracted the Spanish conquistadors to Latin America.... ... middle of paper ...
Reymundo was born in Puerto Rico in 1963 in the back of a 1957 Chevy. His mother was married at age sixteen to a man that was seventy-four years of age. Reymundo’s father died when he was almost five years old, therefore he does not have much memory of the relationship that they had. Reymundo has 2 sisters with whom he did not have a relationship with, one sister would always watch out for him, but that was about it. After the death of Reymundo’s father, his mother remarried a guy named Emilio with which she had a daughter for. After Emilio, Pedro came in to the picture with his son Hector. Pedro was an illegal lottery dealer and Hector sold heroin.