Narváez and De Vaca: The Trek from Florida to Mexico (1528-1536)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- From Florida to Mexico, a large force under Narváez lands at, or near, Tampa Bay in 1528, a few survivors appear in Mexico 8 years later. Along the way they were conquerors, castaways, beggars, shamans, surgeons, unwilling cult leaders and slaves. The primary account by De Vaca is a true story of transformation, or perhaps just an elaborate resume.
You’re the best out there please keep pumping these vids out
@@onwardandupward-t1g thank you!
another fine episode! keep up the good work
@@gentlejones thanks! I keep fiddling with things hopefully in the right direction.
This is fantastic. I wish I'd had a channel like this as a resource when I was teaching US history for the kids who kept asking more questions about those early days of European colonization. It's hard to find quality, engaging content that helps people visualize just how strange a time it was to be a Native American, European, or African.
I'd love to see a video on Olaudah Equiano. Maybe you already did and I just haven't watched it yet. Then again, I tend to give him the benefit of the doubt generally trusting his account.
Thanks again for making this, I'll be watching and sharing.
Great research and discussion, I've always been interested in the story of DeVaca,,thank you for the excellent story, and I agree with you that he painted his image to look like he was the hero
great episode
A harrowing narrative reminiscent of the film Aguirre: The Wrath of God (check it out)
Great job I found it it is James great videos better than mine
One year to have three villages of 100 each(immigrants from New Spain?) and two garrisoned forts in place, in barely known terrain with natives that will definitely be hostile, is a huge expectation!
Maybe it’s the benefit of hindsight, but that seems like an impossible assignment.
@@safeysmith6720 I think one year to land in Florida, I think I phrased it weird though
@@theotherstatesofamericahis5212Nah you didn’t phrase it weird at all!
Either way, I just meant they had a lot of difficult expectations for Narvaez to meet. He must have felt the pressure, big time!
I’m really enjoying this btw! Very interesting and informative. Thanks very much!
Thank you! It's very telling that Narveaz almost immediately began doing everything else other than what he was supposedly there to do.
@@theotherstatesofamericahis5212Haha. Yeah it definitely is telling! I hadn’t gotten to the part where you talk about his ulterior motives to conquer, when I left that last comment. I was over here still thinking he was actually trying to achieve those aims. Lol
Thanks for the video, I once tried to find the original accounts, but please learn to speak Spanish. Sorry, but I assume everybody has friends who speak Spanish in my part of the US but maybe you don't.
The conquistadors? It was a different time though I can't help thinking a fair number were on the psychopath spectrum....and a good way along it.
Compared to who?
@fedevida1951 To others on the Psycopathy spectrum.
I have never encountered such a cynical take of Cabeza de Vaca as presented in this video.
@@gilbertramos6039 yeah I know, maybe I'm just moody, it's dark out this time of year.
Cow face ? Some how I do not think this was in reference to a male ancestor.😇😁
"...Cabeza de Vaca was a perfectly established surname in the Jerez town and according to legend, Sancho of Navarra gave it to the shepherd Martín Alhaja, for having pointed out, with the skull of a bull, the passage through which the Christians entered to defeat the Arabs in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa."
Real Academia de la Historia.
The Cow. Not face
@esthershelton6672
Cow head.