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Instructor E-Sources
PowerPoint™ Presentation
The History of Texas
E-SOURCE CENTER
Nora E. McMillan, Carol A. Keller
and Jeff Wells
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Instructor E-Sources
PowerPoint™ Presentation
The History of Texas
Chapter 1
Contact of Civilizations, 1521–1721
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Learning Outcomes (1)
- comprehend the New World setting and Old World historical factors shaping the era of Spanish exploration and settlement,
- appreciate the indigenous presence and the cultural exchanges taking place,
- understand the Europeanization process, including colonizing baggage and institutionalization,
- comprehend the significance of incorporation.
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Contact of Civilizations
- The Texas story began 30,000 years ago
- Ice Age migrations
- Agriculture developed, 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 Indigenous Peoples of Texas
- 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 First Europeans
- The European context
- The Muslim Era and the reconquista
- Castile and 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 católicos
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The First Europeans
- New World contacts
- Christopher Columbus
- Spain transforms the New World
- The Conquistadores
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa
- Ponce de León
- Hernán Cortes and the Aztec Empire
- Francisco Pizarro and the Inca Empire
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The First Europeans
- Looking for fortunes in Texas
- Cabeza de Vaca and 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 — Frederic Remington
University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections, Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio (MS 362: 68-2015).
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Colonizing Baggage
- 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
Prints and Photograph Collection CN 08004, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
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Colonizing Baggage
- Spanish Texas
- Western Texas
- The Jumanos
- The “Lady in Blue”
- Trade: pearls and buffalo
- El Paso and 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 and Spanish counter-thrust
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Colonizing Baggage
- 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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Key Words and Terms (1)
Pre-contact Era
Tenochtitlan
Coahuiltecans
Xinesi (Caddo)
Jumano
Spanish Era 1521-1821
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Estevanico, el Moro (el Negro)
José de Escandón
Fray Isidro de Espinosa
Fray Juan Agustín Morfí
Alonso de León
Continue ~ Spanish Era
Francisco Coronado
Cibola/Gran Quivira
Louis Juchereau de St. Denis
Father Francisco Hidalgo
Captain Domingo Ramón
Spanish terms
reconquista
conquistadores
rancheros
vaqueros
Islenos
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