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E-SOURCE CENTER
Nora E. McMillan & Carol A. Keller
San Antonio College
History of Texas, 4e
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Instructor E-Sources
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Chapter 1
History of Texas, 4e
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• comprehend the New World setting & Old World historical factors shaping the era of Spanish exploration & settlement,
• appreciate the indigenous presence & the cultural exchanges taking place,
• understand the Europeanization process, including colonizing baggage & institutionalization,
• comprehend the significance of incorporation .
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• The Texas story begins 30,000 years ago
– Ice Age migrations
– Agriculture develops, 7000 B.C.E.
• Pre-Columbian New world cultures
– 12 million people in North America
• Iroquois
• “Five civilized tribes”
• Pueblos
– Central America
• Toltec
• Aztec
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• The Coastal Indians
– Karankawa
– Coahuiltecan
• The Caddo, Northeast Texas
• The Jumano, Trans-Pecos area
• The Plains Indians
– Apaches
– Comanches
– Kiowas
– Tonkawas
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• The European context
– The Muslim Era & the reconquista
– Castile & the legacy of the reconquista
• The Catholic Church as ally
• Agrarian Castile
– Sheep
– Cattle
• Urban Castile
– Municipal government
– ayuntamientos (city-councils)
– hermandades (brotherhoods)
• The Iberian Kingdoms ~ los reyes cat ólicos
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• New World contacts
– Christopher Columbus
– Spain transforms the New World
– The Conquistadores
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Ponce de Leon
• Hernán Cortes & the Aztec Empire
• Francisco Pizarro & the Inca Empire
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• Looking for fortunes in Texas
– Cabeza de Vaca & Estevanico
– Friar Marcos de Niza
– Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
– Hernando de Soto
• Competition for the North
– Dutch
– French
– English
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Coronado on the High Plains ~ Frederick Remington
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• Spanish North America
– The colonization process
• The presidio
• The mission
• The settlement
– The rancho
– The villa
• The Spanish Southwest
– Don Juan de Oñate expedition, 1598
– Santa Fe founded, 1609
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• Spanish Texas
– Western Texas
• The Jumanos
– The “Lady in Blue”
– Trade: pearls & buffalo
– El Paso & the Pueblo Revolt refugees
– Mission Expeditions
– Eastern Texas
• The French Threat
– La Salle and the Mississippi River basin
– Explorations in Texas, 1685-87
– La Salle’s death & Spanish counter-thrust
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• The Spanish in eastern Texas
– The Caddos
• The Settlements
• Incorporation
– Annexation into the national core
– la frontera : transplanting Spanish civilization
– The institutions of colonization
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Pre-contact Era
Tenochtitlan
Coahuiltecans
X inesi (Caddo)
Jumano
Spanish Era 1521-1821
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Estevanico, el Moro ( el
Negro)
Jose de Escandon
Fray Isidro de Espinosa
Fray Juan Agustin Morfi
Alonso de Leon
Continue ~ Spanish Era
Francisco Coronado
Cibola / Gran Quivira
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis
Father Francisco Hidalgo
Captain Domingo Ramon
Spanish terms reconquista conquistadores rancheros vaqueros
Islenos
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