Spanish Settlement In Mexico

Spain was the most powerful monarchy in Europe and the Americas. Their lust for all the richness promised by these new land’s resources like the mine for gold, silver, to grow crops lead the conquistadores to explore the Americas and then move into North America concentrating their efforts in what is now the Southern United States, such as the Grand Canyon, Colorado River. Ponce De Leon arrived in San Augustine in Florida and established a military post, which was the very first colony of Spain in what it’s now the United State. The explorer Hernando De Soto led and expedition in the 1540s of as far north as what is now North Carolina, and as far west as the Mississippi River, after starting in Florida. Hernando De Soto had made a fortune as slave trader and had conquered Peru, Nicaragua and
The population was estimated to have an estimated 100 different tribes and groups, specking more than 200 dialects. This group like the Maidu, Miwok and Yokuts, Chumash, Salinas and many more driven out of the Southwest by Spanish colonization. Despite this great diversity, they has similar lives, they organized themselves into small family based bands of hunters and did not practice much agriculture. In the middle of the 16th century the Spanish explores invaded the region and in 1769 a missionary named Junipero Serra established a mission at San Diego. Marking the beginning of a very brutal period; forced labor, disease and assimilation nearly exterminated the area’s native population. The Navajo were in the Southwestern as were the Navajo, these two tribes and many others in this region survived by hunting, gathering and raiding their neighbors for their crops. By the time the southwestern territories became a part of the United States; many natives had already been exterminated. Those left were sent to reservations by the federal government in the second half of the 19th