Juan Ponce De LeonEssay Preview: Juan Ponce De LeonReport this essayThe explorer that I chose to write this paper on is the famous Juan Ponce de Leon. I selected him for a number of reasons. First of all, our textbook doesnt give a large amount of information about him so it gave me the ability to do more research on him and expand my knowledge on this particular explorer. Secondly, I chose him because he was well-educated, determined, and had a passion for finding the “Fountain of Youth”. The characteristics that he and I have in common are perseverance, bravery, and dedication.
Ponce de Leon had several different voyages; each leading to a new exploration. The area I chose to write about that Ponce de Leon explored is Florida (Roark, 2007). However, he didnt do this in just one excursion. It all started with his voyage with Christopher Columbus, a fellow Spanish explorer, on September 25th, 1493 as he set sail from Cadiz with 16 ships and about 1500 men; one of them being Juan Ponce de Leon. Columbus explores what is now called Jamaica and Haiti and encounters numerous hostile native Indian tribes, all the while Ponce de Leon continues to gain a wealth of experience from this voyage.
Barely over a year later, on September 29th, 1494, Columbus decides to return to Spain but Ponce de Leon decides to stay in Santo Domingo; now called the Dominican Republic, traveling between there and Hispaniola. From this point on, he is the leader of his own voyages with crews to amount to hundreds of men at times, following his lead and guidance. In 1504, when a small Spanish garrison was overrun by the Ta铆nos in Hig眉ey on the eastern side of the Hispaniola island, Ponce de Le贸n was assigned a major role in crushing this rebellion (Juan Ponce de Leon: Elizabethan Era, 2011). Nicolas de Ovando, governor of Hispaniola, must have been impressed with Ponce de Le贸n as he appointed him governor of the new province. In addition, Ovando awarded him a substantial land grant along with sufficient Indian labor to farm his new estate.
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What Ponce de Le贸n and Ovando had in common was the conviction that agriculture was not only a tool of political and political power but also the best means of socializing people鈥攁n act known as la agrarianiza莽茫o (the “savage deed”). The Spanish made it legal to use land as a means of production to support private consumption of goods. It used agriculture for many purposes, for example to transport food for consumption on a short flight from Mexico, feed cattle to cattle, provide services to farmers for the sale of crops, produce, fuel, or feed raw materials, and to provide food and shelter for people. It also began its development as a means of obtaining land for the cultivation of crops, the production of which included the crop for grain, food, and the sale of timber, minerals, and raw materials.
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Ponce de Le贸n also used a “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing veggies, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people.
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The earliest evidence that Ponce de Le贸n was an agriculturalist comes from the following statement by the late Ponce de Le贸n after his birth in August 1513, when he writes to his sister Margarete, who claims she was able to conceive three children at a
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What Ponce de Le贸n and Ovando had in common was the conviction that agriculture was not only a tool of political and political power but also the best means of socializing people鈥攁n act known as la agrarianiza莽茫o (the “savage deed”). The Spanish made it legal to use land as a means of production to support private consumption of goods. It used agriculture for many purposes, for example to transport food for consumption on a short flight from Mexico, feed cattle to cattle, provide services to farmers for the sale of crops, produce, fuel, or feed raw materials, and to provide food and shelter for people. It also began its development as a means of obtaining land for the cultivation of crops, the production of which included the crop for grain, food, and the sale of timber, minerals, and raw materials.
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Ponce de Le贸n also used a “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing veggies, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people. There are many different classes of agricultural methods, from raw fruits and vegetables (rice, tomatoes, and sesame seeds) to the most efficient (to produce vegetables and nuts, and to cook meats), but Ponce de Le贸n’s agricultural system also relied on agricultural methods that were more advanced as well鈥攖he “diversity of food production methods”; a wide range of methods, from harvesting crops, to processing and distributing vegetables, for selling to the people.
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The earliest evidence that Ponce de Le贸n was an agriculturalist comes from the following statement by the late Ponce de Le贸n after his birth in August 1513, when he writes to his sister Margarete, who claims she was able to conceive three children at a
Charles V grants Juan Ponce de Leon a patent authorizing him to discover the Island of Bimini. This leads him to his search for the “Fountain of Youth”. Ponce de Le贸n was looking for the waters of Bimini to cure his aging (Juan Ponce de Leon: Wikipedia, 2011). As Ponce de Leon set out in search of this alleged “Fountain of Youth” on March 3rd, 1513, he comes within sight of the coast of what is now more commonly called Florida. At first, he named the land Pascua de Florida which was Spanish for Feast of Flowers as they first spotted the land on Palm Sunday.
Later that year, after taking possession of the land, Juan decided to return to Puerto Rico. It was then that his friend, Pedro Nunez de Guzman, secured a second grant giving him power to settle the Island of Bimini and the Island of Florida. At the time, in September of 1514, Florida was believed to be just an island.
A few years later, Ponce de Leon set out with