U5 L7 Spain (PART 3) Flashcards
What did Panfilo de Narvaez convince Cabeza de Vaca to join him as?
treasurer and provost marshal on an expedition to Florida
How many ships and men joined Naravez and de Vaca on their expedition to Florida?
5 ships, 600 people
How much men were left when de Vaca and Narvaez arrived in Florida?
300 men
After arriving in Florida what did de Vaca and Narvaez disembark to search for? how long did it take and did they find it?
- city of gold
- 4 months
- did not find it
What did Cabeza de Vaca call the bay after they could not find a city of gold? And why?
- Bay of Horses
- had to kill horses for boats, rigging and water bottles
What happened to survivors of de Vaca and Narvaez that survived when heading to Mexico?
became slaves to coastal INdians
Six years after leaving the Bay of Horses, who were the 4 men that had a chance to get together?
(they’re going to be called ‘ragged bunch’ when referring to them all)
3 spanish soldiers- -Cabeza de Vaca -Castile -Dorantes 1 African Moor- -Estevanico (Dorantes' servant)
Who was the smallest of the ragged bunch?
Cabeza de Vaca
What was the system that Cabeza de Vaca came up with to get the ragged bunch to Mexico?
- Vaca would tell he is a healer and has power to heal
- convinced Indians they could trade them to another tribe for goods
Did Cabeza de Vaca become a Christian missionary because of his system to get to Mexico?
yes
The Spanish soldiers the Ragged Bunch met on Sierra Nevada Mountains were doing what?
slave-raiding
What did the Spanish soldiers on Sierra Nevada Mountains think of the ragged Bunch and why?
- madmen
- had they own band of Indians and dressed in Indian clothes
Who was the vice-governor that the Ragged Bunch met and where?
Melchior Dias, at Culican
What was Melchior Dias’ view upon meeting the Ragged Bunch?
- sympathetic
- told that the governor was a tyrant, enslaving Indians
What did the Ragged Bunch become after countering slave-raids?
heroes throughout the New World
In which islands did Spanish settlement in the New World begin?
Hispaniola in the West Indies
By 1575, what was the population of Spanish settlements in the New World?
160,000
The king or who governed Spanish Latin America?
Council of Indies
What were the two viceroyalties the Council of Indies created?
viceroyalty of:
- New Spain
- Peru
What is a vice royalty?
Spanish province in Latin America administered by person appointed by crown or Council of Indies
What places did New Spain include?
- West Indies
- Central America
- Mexico
- Philippines
- CAPITAL- Mexico City
What places did Peru include?
- South America
- CAPITAL- Lima
What were the 3 viceroyalties Peru was divided into in the 1700s?
- original Peru
- New Granada (CAPITAL- Bogota, Columbia)
- la Plata (CAPITAL- Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Where did viceroyalty officials directly come from?
Spain
Who were viceroyalty officials appointed by?
Council of Indies
What was the Encomienda?
- bc of small white population
- policy were certain number of Indian slaves were granted to landowners by king
Why and when did the encomienda’s die out?
- declining Indian population
- late 1700s
What replaced the encomiendas?
peonage
What was peonage?
- natives tied permanently to lands
- person doing work requiring little skill
- practice of holding persons to work off debts
