Warm Up – 10/17/12 Use the textbook to define:

1. Warm Up – 10/17/12Use the textbook to define: • Friars • Missions • Presidio

2. Agenda • Warm Up • Notes on Cabeza de Vaca • Notes on Coronado • Notes on La Salle

3. Cabeza de Vaca1528 Monument to Cabeza de Vaca in Houston, Texas.

4. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • In early 1527, Cabeza de Vaca departed Spain as a part of a royal expedition to occupy the mainland of North America.

5. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • After their fleet was battered by a hurricane off the shore of Cuba, the expedition secured a new boat and departed for Florida.

6. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • They landed in March 1528 near what is now Tampa Bay, which the expedition leader, Pánfilo de Narváez, claimed as the lawful possession of the Spanish empire.

7. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • Expelled and pursued by the Indians, suffering from numerous diseases, the surviving members of the expedition were reduced to huddling in a coastal swamp and living off the flesh of their horses.

8. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • In late 1528, they built several crude rafts from trees and horse hides and set sail, hoping to return to Cuba.

9. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • Storms, thirst and starvation had reduced the expedition to about eighty survivors when a hurricane dumped Cabeza de Vaca and his companions on the Gulf Coast near what is now Galveston, Texas.

10. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • For the next four years (1528-1532) he and his comrades lived in the complex native world of East Texas, a world in which Cabeza de Vaca transformed himself from a conquistador into a trader and healer.

11. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • By 1532, only three other members of the original expedition were still alive 2 Spanish soldiers and Estevan, an African slave.

12. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • Together with Cabeza de Vaca, theyheaded west and south in hopes of reaching the Spanish Empire's outpost in Mexico, becoming the first men of the Old World to enter the American West.

13. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528 • Their precise route is not clear, but they apparently traveled across present-day Texas, perhaps into New Mexico and Arizona and through Mexico's northern provinces

14. Cabeza de Vaca - 1528

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16. Francisco Coronado • Coronado was born into a noble family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510. He came to the Americas at the age of twenty-five as an assistant to New Spain's first viceroy.

17. Francisco Coronado • Coronado was born into a noble family in Salamanca, Spain, in 1510. He came to the Americas at the age of twenty-five as an assistant to New Spain's first viceroy.

18. Francisco Coronado What is the definition of viceroy?

19. Francisco Coronado Cibola & the 7 Cities of Gold

20. Francisco Coronado • Inspired by rumors of seven cities of gold. • Coronado led a royal expedition of about 300 Spanish soldiers, over 1,000 Tlaxcalan Indians, and enormous herds of livestock north into what is now the American West.

21. Francisco Coronado • In July 1540 Coronado and his advance party of Spanish cavalry encountered a Zuni pueblo. • Coronado arrived at the pueblo during the high point of Zuni summer ceremonies. Understandably, they were not receptive to his arrival.

22. Francisco Cornado • Coronado order the natives to "acknowledge the Church as the ruler and superior of the whole world, and the high priest called Pope, and in his name the King and Queen" of Spain.

23. Francisco Coronado • The next part of the requirimiento (order) warned the Zuni that if they failed to obey orders "with the help of God we shall forcefully... make war against you... take you and your wives and children and shall make slaves of them."

24. Francisco Coronado • Obviously they were not impressed and began firing arrows into the Spanish soldiers. • Coronado.

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26. Francisco Coronado

27. René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle

28. Rene LaSalle • Rene-Robert de LaSalle was important because of his exploration of the Mississippi River in North America. • He was the first European to sail down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. • He claimed the Mississippi River Basin, which he called the Louisiana Territory, for France.

29. Rene LaSalle • He was born in France on November 24, 1643. • When he was 23, he set sail for Canada, with plans to be a farmer. • However, La Salle became interested in fur trading and set up a fur trading post instead.

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31. Rene LaSalle • He became friendly with the Iroquois Indians, and learned from them of a great river which led to a sea. • He became convinced that this was the great water route that would lead to Asia and make trading with the Far East easier. • He decided he would try to find that water trade route.

32. Rene LaSalle • In 1682, after LaSalle complete his discovery of the Mississippi River, he wanted to explore the Gulf of Mexico. • He took 200 Frenchmen and about 15,000 Indians and explored the Gulf of Mexico.

33. Rene LaSalle • They had hardly left France when quarrels arose between La Salle and the naval commander. • Vessels were lost by piracy and shipwreck, while sickness took a heavy toll of the colonists.

34. Rene LaSalle • Finally, a storm blew the ships to Matagorda Bay in Texas, 500 miles west of their intended landfall. • After several fruitless journeys in search of his lost Mississippi, LaSalle met his death at the hands of mutineers near the Brazos River. His vision of a French empire died with him.

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