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[https://www.americanyawp.com/text/02-colliding-cultures/ by THE AMERICAN YAWP] | [https://www.americanyawp.com/text/02-colliding-cultures/ by THE AMERICAN YAWP] | ||
Juan Ponce de León arrived in the area named La Florida in 1513. He found between 150,000 and 300,000 Native Americans. But then two and a half centuries of contact with European and African peoples—whether through war, slave raids, or, most dramatically, foreign disease—decimated Florida’s Indigenous population. European explorers, meanwhile, had hoped to find great wealth in Florida, but reality never aligned with their imaginations. | Juan Ponce de León arrived in the area named La Florida in 1513. He found between 150,000 and 300,000 Native Americans. But then two and a half centuries of contact with European and African peoples—whether through war, slave raids, or, most dramatically, foreign disease—decimated Florida’s Indigenous population. European explorers, meanwhile, had hoped to find great wealth in Florida, but reality never aligned with their imaginations. | ||
=====Spanish Colonization and Control===== | |||
[https://lammuseum.wfu.edu/exhibits/virtual/experiences-of-colonialism-in-latin-america/spanish-colonization-and-control/ by WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY] | |||
Spanish colonists in the Americas attempted to capture and control land, resources, and labor from indigenous societies. They often used violence. They also used lasting methods of control by imposing social and economic institutions, like colonial governments and markets. This led many societies to adapt to European practices. | |||
