Vasco Da Gama Summary

It’s a good starting point because it tells of the first because there was no before knowledge. It has it’s true knowledge and it is less opinionated. this starting point can be thought out as a safe, good starting point because although it is from a European point of view, The persons living in the country that De Vaca says something about to as Indians are not made picture of as violent, slow in development, savages, or of lower quality as in so many other texts. His position, being one of a person in another's place, would make his viewpoint, one of a kind feelings of the Indians that give them food, and would talk well of them. however, he might have been somewhat over-did and his account of the journey to the island. He says that not five men could be positioned, but if that's the Case then who would have been salvage of the ship? This shows that it is only his personal rapport and holds no view our reactions of others. It fails to say the name of personal lines and their feelings about the New earth.

During the age of exploration and colonization, Portuguese mariners first found success in establishing trade along the African coast. They set up trading posts on offshore island using a new ship design, planting a variety of crops and trading commodities with people along the coast. Additionally, Vasco da Gama travelled around the tip of Africa to trade with East Africa and India. While their most of their goods were seen as inferior, da Gama returned with fighting vessels and established trading posts in the Indian Ocean by using force.

de la Casas describes the second voyage that he embarked upon with Columbus. He described how each island was depopulated and destroyed. His observations of the land were no so descriptive of the native people and the land, but of the gruesome images the Spanish painted upon the Indies. de la Casas says, “…the Indians realize that these men had not come from Heaven (9).” He goes into detail about how the Christians would take over villages and had no mercy describing one particularly crude act to show how ruthless the Spanish were. He says, “Then they behaved with such temerity and shamelessness that the most powerful ruler of the islands had to see his own wife raped by a Christian officer (9).” The Spanish were so coward and angry anytime an Indian was actually capable of slaying a Spanish man that a rule was made; for every Christian slain, a hundred Indians would die. Natives were captured and forced to work jobs like pearl diving where they would very rarely survive due to man eating sharks or just from drowning and holding their breaths

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.

“A Land So Strange” is a book any history enthusiast would enjoy. Beautifully written by Andres Resendez he is able to show the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca through a book. Cabeza de Vaca a Spaniard scholar who shipwrecked in Florida in 1528 with a group of about 300 Spanish men, explorers, and slaves who accompanied him along the way. Having hopes to claim and settle in Florida but unexpectedly consistent events; like nature, natives, and loss of navigation turned their mission into an unexpected journey. Andres Resendez wonderfully words these unexpected events with a pleasant amount of detail that any reader could picture the journey of eight years of challenges leaving only four survivors Cabeza de Vaca, two other Spaniards, and an African slave who ended up wanting to just go back home. Regardless of these events he is considered one of the best explorers who survived the unimaginable and lead even with the lack of supplies and men to get their way back home. The journey was humbling by the fact he had to survive with what was around him and pushed through because of his curiosity to know more. This book is informative and practical because the author was able to illustrate his words that created a story based upon facts and understanding of the main characters experience that allowed one to see the passion Cabeza de Vaca in his expedition.

The descriptions which Christopher Columbus and Alvez de Vaca reveal are entirely different. Columbus wrote information that was insignificant. His explanations are very vague and are only somewhat in depth when something interests him greatly, like

In Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s “The Relation”, he begins the work by placing all sense of glory and success upon that of Emperor Charles V. This is customary during this time period, but the underlying exaggeration of Charles V’s magnificence show the disconnect that Cabeza de Vaca possessed when pertaining to old world ways of life. It in essence solidifies his self-centered persona that he was said to posses (43). It also magnifies the feeling Cabeza de Vaca has towards the societal norms, and suggests that he would later on consider himself a renegade. It is here that the question is raised, did Cabeza de Vaca essentially abandon his monarch and country during his journey with the Native American tribes?

While the excerpts of the Journal are mostly attributed to Columbus himself, little of the Admiral’s personal logs still exist. In fact, most of the “excerpts” existing today are reconstructions utilizing later quotations – as well as letters and reports to/from: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella; trusted officials; family; and fellow voyagers. Columbus’ brother Bartholomew; Columbus’ sons Hernando and Ferdinand; Andres Bernaldez (a friend); and Bartolome de las Casas (a Catholic Bishop and historiographer of Columbus) have all been recognized as contributing to the “reconstructions” of Columbus’ Journal

Cabeza de Vaca was lost and alone in the swamp wetlands of the San Antonio Bay. He was naked, his feet were covered in mud, and he was covered in mosquitoes, but he was still able to survive. Cabeza de Vaca was on a expedition with Panfilo de Narvaez along with 300 other men to establish settlements along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The 300 men were ordered to leave the ships by Panfilo de Narvaez on modern-day Tampa Bay, Florida to search for treasure. While they were all looking for their treasure, they didn't know that the would never see their ships again. Now the only thing that mattered was not colonization, it was survival. Cabeza de Vaca survived by healing the native americans, respecting the native americans, and using his wilderness skills to survive.

Although Vasco da Gama sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 1488 to find a trade route to India, he was also looking for other Christian kings and spices. Da Gama was known as “captain-major” to his crew-mates, and he was an ambassador for Prince Henry. When he landed in India, he gave two letters to the king of Calicut. In a cultural misunderstanding, Vasco da Gama tried to give gifts to the king that were laughed at because the poorest merchant would give gifts better than the gift that da Gama gave. Although Vasco da Gama gave the wrong gift to the king, he still

Most people believe that if you are lost it’s a navigational issue, but Solnit goes into depth in this chapter on what it means to be lost. Solnit gives examples of two people who were considered lost by people they ponce knew. Spanish conquistador Cabeza De Vaca was sent to explore uncharted land. Unfortunately, most of them that accompanied him died. He was found and fed by Native Americans, but later on he was put to work as a slave to the tribe. Solnit states “He was pared back to nothing, no language, no clothes, no weapons, no power”. (Solnit 68). Cabela and his men were slaves for multiple tribes. Fellow conquistadors later found him, but he was unrecognizable to them. Cabela De Vaca was viewed as a savage. Any shred of himself had been lost.

If the Native Americans told their side about the people they held captive, the treatment would have seemed more justified. A good example of this was when a captive named Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca talked about laughing at how the Native Americans wanted them to act as physicians without even seeing any credentials. He mentions that they “cure others by blowing upon the sick”. When the captives laughed at orders to do the same, the natives took offense to that and took away their food privileges. They did this because they saw the captives as great men that “possess power and efficacy over all things”. With this mindset Cabeza de Vaca and his people should have been able to help out with the healing rituals. From the Native point of view it

Until da Gama treasurers appraised the inexpensive items to the king. The presents that da Gama sent to the Zamorin as gifts were four cloaks of scarlet cloth, six hats, four branches of corals, twelve almasares, a box with seven brass vessels, a chest of sugar, two barrels of oil and a cask of honey, which were trivial and failed to impress. The Moor or muslims even laughed at these presents because that were the poorest merchant that should not offer to the king. However, da Gama argued that he was not merchant but embassador and those gifts was from his own not from the king of Portugal. Therefore, da Gama desired to send those present to the Zamorin. The The zamorin quite naturally had looked for a gold, and wondered at why there was no gold or silver. The Moors or Muslim merchants, who dominated the city's trade, suggested that da Gama was only an ordinary pirate and not a royal ambassador and convinced the zamorin that he would gain nothing if have a commercial agreement with the Portuguese. Therefore, Vasco da Gama has to leave, since he in charge of the merchandise that could not sell, which turned down by the King. He faced several problems about returning to his ships, which the Moors does not gave them opportunity to do so. However, in later, he and his crews reached the ships

TPS-FASTT Poem Analysis- Llano Vaqueros by Jimmy Santiago Baca Title: The title, “Llano Vaqueros”, means cowboys of the plain. It seems that the poem is going to portray the lifestyle of Mexican cowboys living in plains. Paraphrase: The narrator first describes a person name Padilla who unloads herd of Mexican cattle in the field.

Vasco Da Gama left from Lisbon, Portugal on his first voyage on July 8, 1497 because he wanted to prove that the Atlantic Ocean connected with the Indian Ocean. He had one hundred seventy men and four ships. The journey sailed on November 22 successfully