at Colegio de San Nicolas Obispo in Moreli. He became the dean of Colegio de San Nicolas Obispo in…
Juan Ponce De Leon he was born in 1474 in the village of Santervas del Campo . He died July 1521 in Havana, Cuba for an arrow after of the travel to Florida. He was an explorer and conquistador the first to discovered Florida.…
Francisco de las Casas was born in Francisco de las Casas was born in Trujillo, Caceres in 1469.…
Ignacio Jose de Allende y Unzaga is best recognized as a Mexican-born officer who joined the Spanish army and fought for independence. Ignacio Allende was born in January 21, 1760 in San Miguel el Grande where his service years in the military were 1802-1811. The town is now called San Miguel de Allende in his honor. Allende was raised by a wealthy Spanish criollo family and soon after had the privilege to fight alongside the “Father of Mexican Independence,” Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla which at the beginning succeeded in their attempt to win independence but some differences were encounter and were executed later on in June and July of 1811. Unfortunately, when he decided to go for a military career in 1802, he married but his wife, Maria de la Luz…
Bernal Diaz de Castillo wrote about a quest that he was fortunate enough to participate with his soldier leader, Hernan Cortes. Hernan Cortes and his soldiers went on many different expeditions in order to expand their knowledge on the unknown world. Bernal Diaz de Castillo did not hold any type of leadership within his community; however, he was intelligent enough to know a new world apart from an old one. The New Spain that Castillo and his conquest mates experienced eventually led to the publication of his memoirs and witnessing experience.…
Hernando cortes was a man of power and adventure he was born in 1485 in spain. When he was 14 he was sent away to get a better education he studied latin and law. Three years later he sailed to what is now known as Haiti. He worked with the governor of Haiti to organized a conquest of Cuba. He was rewarded with land and slaves. After Diego Velazquez conquered Cuba he made Cortes one of his top ranking officials. Then he sailed into Veracruz , another town and took it by force. He then tried to meet with the Montezuma the Aztec king but he refused. Then Velasquez betrayed Cortes and sent men to attack Cortes. After a long battle Cortes came out the champion. Then the Aztecs tried to please Cortes by giving him gold and other treasures…
The plaza at the center of the city cover the site of an ancient Aztec temple…
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, an early explorer and first historian of Texas, was born in 1490 in Jerez de la Frontera, in Andalusia, Spain a province in the south of Spain near Cadiz.…
In the year 1513, Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for the country Spain. Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer looking for the “Fountain of Youth” that would give humans an eternal life. Instead, Leon landed on the shore of the current-day St. Augustine. It was so beautiful that Leon crowned it for the Spaniards.…
In the 1500’s - 1600’s there were many explorers of the New World. One of those explorers was Juan Ponce de Leon. During this time period, the Spanish Crown sponsored many explorers, but because of his expedition Juan Ponce de Leon was rewarded.…
When discussing the importance of Spanish alliances, it is important to discuss Matthew Restall’s interpretation of “the myth of the white conquistador”. A common myth in regards to the Spanish Conquest is that the Aztecs were conquered by a small group of white Spanish men. Within Restall’s book titled “Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest”, he debunks the myth of the white conquistadors. Restall’s argues that “there is no doubt that the Spanish were consistently outnumbered by native enemies on the battlefield. But what has so often been ignored or forgotten is the fact that Spaniards tended also to be outnumbered by their own native allies. Furthermore, the invisible warriors of this myth took an additional form, that of the Africans, free and enslave, who accompanied Spanish…
Bartolome` de Las Casa had a very different view of the Indians than the majority. Las Casa was against the mistreatment of the Indians. Las Casa tried to convince the Spanish to change their attitudes towards the Indians. He committed his life to being an advocate for the Indians and urging people to treat them better.…
approaching Spanish ships, he was playing a game of bowls. It is here where he…
On 13 August 1521 the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, had fallen to the Spanish conquistadors. Cortes and his followers had only landed in Mexico in April 1519. By the time of Cortes’ last departure form Spain in 1540; Mexico City had become a powerful colonial metropolis, the capital of a Spanish territory extending south into Central America and North to or beyond the Gulf of California. The campaign waged by Cortes was so successful that all ensuing campaigns were modelled upon the Aztec conquest. The question posed is how was the conquest of Mexico achieved in such a small space of time? It would seem unfeasible that a small army of soldiers could overcome thousands of Native Americans on their own soil; Tenochtitlan was a perfect location…
Legends are ancient stories that have been told from generation to generation and, everyone implements something new to the story, in some parts it´s true, and when time passes it becomes with more lies than truth. They can tell a story that all lies and they have an important role in our culture because most of our traditions born of them.…
