Research Paper On Juan Ponce De Leon

The date is September 24,1493 we are about to set off on a journey across the Atlantic Ocean. I had heard that the Taino Indians speak of a magic fountain and a rejuvenating river somewhere to the north of Cuba. I know that If I can discover the Fountain of Youth then I will go down in history as the world’s greatest explorer.

Ponce de Leon’s career as an explorer began in 1493, on Columbus’s second voyage. He was a conquistador, a leader of the Spanish conquest. He was probably looking to become wealthy from all of the gold in the Americas. Ponce de Leon may have been curious. It is a mystery

PerceivJuan ponce de Leon discovers the present Florida. De Leon became a very rich person by finding gold and farming. Another thing is he sold things to sailors traveling to Spain. Overall De Leon was a good man aka he was a hero rather than a villain.

Death, starvation, illness, and hostile natives are some of the difficulties explorers faced during the 15th century. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Garcia Lopez de Cardenas were two Europeans who traveled great distances in hopes of discovering something new. Throughout their journeys, both men wrote down the problems and discoveries they made. With the passages from their journal one can compare and contrast their expeditions. In the upcoming paragraphs one will learn the similarities and differences between the two men during their expeditions.

Chapter Three is based on Governor’s Alonso De Leon’s 1690 expedition. This chapter is a continuation of what chapter one and two talk about. In chapter three we are able to track the route of the 1690 expedition route through Alonso De Leon’s diary.

Juan Ponce de Leon was conceived in 1460 and kicked the bucket in 1521. In 1502 Ponce de Leon was in the West Independents filling in as a Chief under Nicolas de Ovando who was legislative head of Hispaniola. In 1508 Juan Ponce de Leon went with Columbus and attempted to colonize Hispaniola and was conceded authorization to investigate the island. As a reward for stifling an Indian rebellion, he was named to be the commonplace legislative head of the eastern piece of Hispaniola by Ovando. In the wake of hearing relentless reports of gold to be found on Puerto Rico, Ponce de Leon investigated and settled that island, establishing the province's most established settlement, Capara, close what is currently San Juan. Ponce de Leon was the primary

Juan Ponce de Leon was born in Spain in 1460. Looking for fame and fortune, he started his career as an explorer by assisting in Christopher Columbus’s second expedition. Later on, he started his own expeditions to search for gold. On his various expeditions, he is known for building settlements in Puerto Rico and finding Florida while on the search for the fountain of youth.

Juan Ponce de Leon was the first European known to have visited present-day United States in 1513. He also discovered Florida and the Bahama Channel, and colonized Puerto Rico according to the Mariners Museum website. In 1502, he left on a voyage with Frey Nicolás de Ovando and arrived at Santo Domingo. He lived there from 1502 to 1504 and was named the island’s captain by Ovando. De Leon then moved to Salvaleón and lived there from 1505 to 1508. In 1506, he made a request to travel to and conquer Borinquen. After receiving permission from Ovando, he started a settlement there and renamed it San Juan de Puerto Rico. On March 3rd 1513, he left Puerto Rico with 3 ships to explore north of Cuba. On March 27th 1513 he sighted mainland Florida.

The swift sandy beaches of the Caribbean were once desolate and unknown rule by the natural habitat of Taino natives whose sole existence revolved around primitive nature. These Virgin Islands would be a critical and strategic discovery for the strengthening Spanish empire during the 15th century under the rule of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile . On October 1492, a man by the name of Christopher Columbus would take the power of the Spanish crown to excellency and great dominion over the new world. The lives of both the natives and the Spaniards would be revolutionized and two completely different worlds would collide for the first time. The discovery of the New World was masked by preconceptions, ancient interpretations of

Could you imagine a time where almost 90% of your kind were dead,because of diseases that some people brought and you couldn’t cure it.Where only 10% of your kind were still alive.There was a time like this before in the 1540 where one man, Hernando de Soto almost 90% killed all of the Native Americans in Georgia. Hernando de Soto was a Spanish conquistador that had come looking for God,Gold,and Glory.When Hernando de Soto came to North America,he first land on the shore of now a day Florida. Then he and his 600 men set of to Georgia,there Hernando de Soto and his men meet the Native Americans of the island of Ocmulgee.

A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust

Life was not easy for the Spaniards who tried to live in Florida. It was in fact, very difficult; and they had no time to convert any of the Native people to Catholicism. However, once they did get settled and started to become acclimatized to Florida’s environment they

Juan Ponce de León was born in 1460 in Santervás de Campos, Spain into a noble family. He was aboard Christopher Columbus' second expedition to the Americas in 1493. When he heard Puerto Rico was rich in gold, he conquered the island and became governor but then lost his title in 1511 for being extremely brutal with the natives. Ponce de León received permission from the king to explore and search for lands to the northwest. In 1513 he set out to find Bimini an island that was rumored to be a "wealthy land." Instead of finding Bimini, Ponce de León and his 65 men discovered Florida. He returned to Florida in 1521. The trip was a total failure,

As we enter the book we are welcomed with a great deal of details about Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s early life and his ancestors. As we Cabeza de Vaca was growing up, Spain was vying with Portugal to find a new sea route to eastern Asia and its market of spices, silks, carpets, and gems. During Alvar’s childhood Columbus’s discoveries emerged in Europe. Amerigo Vespucci said it wasn’t Asia but a “New World” but everyone ignored him and kept calling it the Indies. We are also told that artisans and hidalgos weren’t sailing to the unknown lands to simply wonder around the land but to expand the Spanish territory. They wanted to spread Christianity and find gold and silver, Spain reasons for conquering the new world, fertile lands for growing cash crops and raising livestock, and people willing to work in the mines or fields.

Hernando de Soto was a Spanish conquistador born in the year 1496 and died in 1542 due to a deadly fever after crossing the Mississippi River in Ferriday, Louisiana. De Soto lead a dangerous expedition in the interior of North America in the hope of finding gold. During his journey, he came among a over populated a sophisticated Indian civilization living in the Mississippi Valley. After discovering this place, De Soto, his men, and livestock introduced new diseases and destroyed that beautiful and large group of natives. Three years of searching and searching de Soto and his men grew restless, next thing they knew de Soto died with the men fleeing to Mexico.