Historical Narrative for Vasco da Gama- Elinor Grochowski witness: Pedro Cabral I am Pedro Álvares Cabral. I was sent from Portugal to establish trading routs. One of my commanders had a route to India but I chose to follow Vasco da Gama’s route instead. The commander 's route was to travel around the coast of Africa. Vasco’s route, though, was to go around The Cape of Good Hope. I reached the cape of Good Hope. Soon winds pushed me to Brazil and I claimed land for Portugal there. However Brazil was not my intended goal for Portugal. I was sent later back to The Cape of Good Hope. We sailed and reached an island that was off the coast of India, Calicut. We set up a trading post. We were attacked by Muslims there, many were murdered. I
Cabeza de Vaca attitude towards the new world was that of suffering and starvation. During his travels, he ate very little, mostly deer-tallow and at one point powdered straw. They did not eat during the day and ate very little at night. Cabeza de Vaca and his men grew very tired and hungry, but could not let the Native Americans see this suffering because they were upholding their authority over them. Cabeza de Vaca’s description of the terrain in some parts differed greatly from that of Columbus in that Columbus stated that the terrain he saw was rich lush lands with warm air and year round green
This is where Indies were founded but now called the Hispaniola. These Spanish Christians were honest, no grudges, and etc. According to “Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies” there were cons about them, for instance, “…so weak and complaisant, they are less able to endure heavy labor and soon die.” The Hispaniola had a total of 12 million Native Indians on the island and blaming the church being involved somewhat. When the Spaniards noticed some of the Native Indians escaped, he sent out a ship where it took several years to find them to kill.
A journey to remember. Five Spanish ships left the port of Seville in 1527 with 300 people going out to uncharted land called “The New World” and who knew only 4 people would come back. The leader of the entire expedition named Panfilo de Narvaez had dreamed of building settlements on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Cabeza de Vaca a military veteran was serving as the treasurer in this expedition.
Europe 's government greatly demanded spices and gold from Asia, so they tried to find a water route to Asia. Columbus sailed towards what he thought was Asia, but instead found America. During the voyage, there was a risk of no winds, unknown weather, and shortages of supplies. When Columbus saw land, he anchored all of the ships and headed for land. Columbus named the new island San Salvador, and started exploring the fairly tropical area.
Once set off in the expectation of creating a quicker route to India by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, Christopher had reached a land that was thought to be the lands of India. Once arriving to the shores, he and his crew kept journals of their thoughts and observations about the new lands. Books containing collections of journal entries and other additions, such as Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen, really reveal the frightening foreshadowing of the explorer’s plans. “He ended his description of them with these menacing words: "I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men and govern them as I pleased." (Loewen 1).
Portugal played a big role in European exploration. Some of the best explorers came from Portugal. Such as Vasco de Gama, Prince Henry, Ferdinand Magellan, and Bartolomeu Dias. These explorers traveled around the world and brought new ways of life and teaching back to Portugal. Most of the explorers of Portugal used a sailboat called the caravel.
Historical Narrative On November 16, 1532 Francisco Pizarro invited Atahualpa to a feast in his “honor”. Atahualpa brought 5,000 unarmed men to this feast. Atahualpa and his tribe were at the feast when Francisco and his crew opened arm on the unarmed Incas. Francisco Pizarro had only 200 men with him, but they were all armed.
Don Juan de Onate, wrote the letter after the expedition took place, the subject of the document included the travels to the new colony and the hardships that were endured. He described the culture, religion and living conditions of the indigenous people. Although gold was not found, other riches were to be had, such as furs, mines, foods to harvest and wildlife. Don Juan de Onate also told of his commitment to Spain and the
Vasco de Gama impacted the indigenous people of Africa. On the first expedition they spent 4 months out on sea before reaching a bay called St Helena Bay which Vasco de Gama named which was after a Religious Mother of Constantine the Great. When they stopped on land to make repairs, look for water, and check their position they make their first encounter with the Khoikhoi. They come to a misunderstanding and Khoikhoi throw spears which wounded Vasco in the thigh. Which then the battered ships came in three days later and Vasco starts to trade with the people.
There were various topics covered throughout Chapter 16 of Patterns of World History: Volume One: to 1600, which focused on the European expansion as well as the Ottoman Habsburg conflicts. First, apocalyptic beliefs were spreading across Europe and began to inspire Europeans to explore and conquer the non Christian world. Second, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella enacted various political and religious reforms during their reign in Spain. Lastly, conflicts between Christians and Muslims in Eastern Europe was beginning to boil over into armed conflicts and conquest. All in all, each of these components greatly shaped the world through the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, the European voyages to the Americas and Africa, and the Ottoman incursions
Cabeza de vaca survived by Cabeza de vaca was stranded on texas after their boats had disappeared he was left there with 300 men how would they all get out alive. They were on a colonizing trip and when they told the men to look for tesur and returns there was no boat in sight. How did cabeza de vaca serve through all of this and make it to mexico city. One reason cabeza de vaca survived was because he was a healer when he was near a tribe they seemed helpful and nice they gave im food water and a place to sleep until they became slave master and captured by the slave masters at one point while in slavery he held one of them who had a arrow thor there heart when he was done with the surgery he was respected and they loosened up on him until
During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of a few European nations sent expeditions out in the hope that explorers would find great wealth and vast undiscovered lands. The Portuguese were the earliest participants in this “Age of Discovery.” Starting in about 1420, Portuguese ships sailed the African coast, carrying spices, gold, slaves and other goods from Africa and Asia to Europe.
Imagine that the year is 1527, you are sailing along the Atlantic Ocean and suddenly you are told to get off the boat, and you’re left stranded near present-day Tampa-Bay, Florida. Believe it or not, this happened to a man named Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. He was part of an expedition led by a spanish conquistador Pánfilo de Narvaez, Narvaez wanted to settle the gulf coast. After an accidental landfall, Narvaez, de Vaca, and many others march inland in search of treasure ; they found nothing, and they were stranded there and forced to survive. This leads us to the question, how did Cabeza de Vaca survive?
In exploration Ponce de Leon accompanied Christopher Columbus on his 1493 voyage to a new world, but didn’t return with him because he wanted to stay in the Dominican Republic. About a decade later from that Ponce de Leon explored
De Vacca went to prison. He got banished from the New World. He keeps sending people back to Spain to gather more supplies. The supplies were horses, army people and food. He had 60men go with him on his voyage.