HIST 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enculturation, Francisco Vázquez De Coronado, New Netherland
31 Jan 2017
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Europeans in north america: everyone who wasn"t english. The danelaw, northern england: raid monasteries, eastern coast, starting going farther up and inland, had to create winter settlements leading to families, vikings wiped out all kingdoms except wessex. Alfred the great: retook danelaw, created the united kingdom of england. Vinland sagas: account of viking trying to find iceland, tells lief erikson who leads expedition to explore land, helluland, markland, and vinland established, trading outposts, timber, did not get along with skraelings. Pedro menendez de avile: colonial st. augustine, florida, originally fort caroline, housed french huguenots, slaughtered ft. caroline and made it st. augustine. Francisco vasquez de coronado: expedition arrives in zuni pueblo, conquer it and use it as base, 300 spaniards and 1,000 native americans, travels to grand canyon and wichita, kansas. Jacques cartier: explored gulf of st. lawrence, claims canada for the french.
