HUM 2461 Humanities of Latin America Fall 2013

1. Day 15 10th of October HUM 2461Humanities of Latin AmericaFall 2013 • Attendance • Dr. Zacarias and Brazilian’s conquest. • Pre-Cultures in Florida • Quizzes & mid term exam • Homework#6 until Thursday • Conquistadors in Florida

2. Timucua, Calusa, Apalachee, and Tocobagopeoples 13,000-1512 CE Florida

3. Timucua people Arrive to Floridafrom northern South America via the Caribbean island chain. Settled in San Augustine

4. The Caribbean island chain

5. TocobagaCulture From 900 to about 1600 Tampa Bay

6. Seminole Culture circa 1600 and later Northen Florida

7. Important facts (Spanish) • 1513 Juan Ponce de León landed at St. Augustine, but he made no permanent settlement. • 1528 Pánfilo de Narváez and his second-in-command, ÁlvarNúñezCabeza de Vaca arrived in Tampa Bay. • 1539-1542 Hernando de Soto undertook a disastrous exploration of Florida (especially the Bradenton and Tampa areas).

8. Important facts (Spanish) • 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanishmassacresthe French colonists at La Caroline and thesurvivors of Fort Caroline at Matanzas Bay. • 1566 Pedro Menéndez de Avilés claims Miami as a possession of Spain. • 1572 St. Augustine is reestablished on its current site. • 1672-1695 The Castillo de San Marcos (Fort Marion under the English and Americans) was built in its current form.

9. Fort La Caroline (St. John’s river)

10. Castillo de San Marcos

11. Important facts (Spanish) • 1693 Spain declares by official royal edict that all African slaves who escape from the English colonies would become free upon arriving in Spanish Florida, converting to Roman Catholicism, and, for men, serving in the militia. • 1738 The Spanish town and fort of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (Fort Mose), first completely free black settlement in what would become USA territory, built two miles north of the Castillo in St. Augustine.

12. Fort Mose

13. Important facts (Spanish) • 1740 Fort Mose destroyed by English slave owners and their Indian allies in an invasion from the Carolinas. • 1763-1783 Florida was ceded to England from Spain by the Treaty of Paris; Fort Mose reconstructed and resettled, 1763. • 1888 Henry Flagler built the Ponce de Leon Hotel. Fort Mose II is buried under water in the marshes to the right of the shown photo.

15. Important facts (French) • 1562-1565 French Huguenotexplorers and settlers (Jean Ribaut, René Gaumont de Laudonnière, et al) explore and settleCharlesfort at Parris Island and Fort La Caroline in Jacksonville.

16. Important facts (Missions) • In northern and western Florida alone the Spanish government and church established some 50 missions. • 1587 The Franciscan mission of Nombre de Dios is established in St. Augustine – “Fountain of Youth” • 1606 La Misión San Francisco de Potanois located 8 miles NW of Gainesville, Florida.

17. Important facts (Gainesville) • 1610-1612 The Franciscan mission of Santa Fe de Toloca was established north of Gainesville, Florida, on or near the Santa Fe river. This mission connected the camino real (royal highway) between St. Augustine and the San Luis de Apalachee mission in present-day Tallahassee (the Apalachee province of New Spain in the first Spanish period). (Santa Fe College was named for the river, but the mission had the same name.)

18. Important facts (Treaties) • 1763-1783 Florida was ceded to England from Spain by the Treaty of Paris; Fort Mose reconstructed and resettled, 1763. • 1783 Florida ceded back to Spain by the Treaty of Versailles • 1783-1821 Second Spanish period • 1819 Florida was ceded to the USA by the Adams-Onís Treaty. The Treaty was proclaimed in 1821. • 1845 Florida becomes the 27th state of the USA as a “slave state.”

19. See you Thursday Hasta el jueves À jeudi Até quinta-feira