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Spanish Influence on the Old Southwest - A Collision of Cultures (Paperback)
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Spanish Influence on the Old Southwest - A Collision of Cultures (Paperback)
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The traditional view of the American West is that the frontier was
settled by colonists emigrating from the Atlantic Coast to the
Pacific shore. Spanish conquistadors, however, landed in Central
America 150 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. This
is the story of how the Spanish pushed north from Mexico in the
1500s seeking riches, in the process colonizing the Southwest 250
years before the American influx of European settlers in the
mid-1800s. Much of the culture and many of the traditions brought
by these Spanish explorers have influenced what is present and
visible today. The wave of conquerors, soldiers, settlers, and men
of the church that flowed north from Mexico during the 1600s and
1700s eventually populated a vast area. Spanish explorers
established settlements over a broad section extending over the
Southwest from Texas to California as they searched for riches in
the form of gold and silver. Along with the original Spanish
conquistadors came missionaries who tried to convert the existing
native population to Christianity. This forced conversion of the
Pueblo and Plains Indians, and suppression of their native
religious beliefs, led to cultural clashes that eventually resulted
in outright rebellion, and affected the course of history in the
Southwest.
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