the colony quickly fell into anarchy as the settlers warred over command of the town and the decision to abandon the colony altogether. In the two weeks that followed, a series of events including usurpation of the temporary regime governing until Ayllón’s appointed successor...
Not long after Spanish Florida became United States territory in 1821, the attention of Anglo-American settlers was drawn to the handful of remaining Spanish fishing ranchos along the lower gulf coastline, inhabited by Cuban fishermen and their "Spanish Indian" families and neighbors. The history ...
well as geographic conditions, led to differences in the social, economic, and political organization of the colonies. The West Indies and the coastal strips of Venezuela and Brazil became primarily settlers’ colonies where plantation slavery, which depended on the importation of Negro slaves from ...
He described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.Arriving as one of the first Spanish (and European) settlers in the Americas, Las Casas initially participated in, but eventually felt compelled to oppose the abuses committed by colonists against the Native ...
In 1527 the Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational... L Lalami - 《Vintage Books》 被引量: 7发表: 2014年...
Similar in climatic zones, area, and population to California, Spain occupies the greater part of the Iberian peninsula in southwestern Europe. Spain's Latin name, Hispania (Land of Rabbits), was given by Carthaginian settlers at the dawn of recorded history. Colonized by a series of important...
Northwest Africa because this archipelago was settled by Imazighen peoples around 3,000 YBP, as supported by several lines of archaeological, linguistic and genetic evidence24, and current Canarian goat populations are thought to descend from the ones brought by the first settlers of the ...
After Columbus first landed on the island in 1492, naming itHispaniola, or “Little Spain,” Spanish settlers followed up in 1496, setting up the first Spanish colony in the Western hemisphere at Santo Domingo. This city would subsequently serve as capital of all of the Spanish colonies in th...
Epic and poetic all at once, the name is an artifact from the early bellicose days when the city's French and Spanish settlers were at each other's throats. But they allowed a little space between their respective sections of ... T Samuel - 《U.s.news & World Report》 被引量: 0发...
In this paper, I will give a historical overview of the first Spanish settlements in the 15th and 16th century and the following extensions to the Pacific coast as well as along the Atlantic coast. Certainly, the encounters between settlers and Native Americans represented a difficult cultural eve...