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#1 The name California was derived from a Spanish novel that was published in 1510. The novel chronicled the adventures of Esplandián, a son of the hero Amadis of Gaul, at the siege of Constantinople. Esplandián’s allies at the siege were the Californians, a race of black Amazons under the command of Queen Calafia.
#2 The American state of California is located between latitude 42 degrees north and latitude 32 degrees north. On a clear day, California appears as a serene palette of blue, green, brown, white, and red. However, this apparent serenity masks a titanic drama occurring beneath the surface.
#3 The landscape of California is a mosaic of stark contrasts, vibrant and volatile with the geological forces that shaped the western edge of the continent. Coastal California, where settlement began and maintains its greatest density, sustains a variety of salubrious climates.
#4 California is a distinct bioregion due to its water and climate. It is a island on the land, sealed off by the Pacific, the Sierra Nevada, the Klamath and Cascade ranges in the north, and the Mojave Desert in the southeast.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	05 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669378662
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The name California was derived from a Spanish novel that was published in 1510. The novel chronicled the adventures of Esplandián, a son of the hero Amadis of Gaul, at the siege of Constantinople. Esplandián’s allies at the siege were the Californians, a race of black Amazons under the command of Queen Calafia.

#2

The American state of California is located between latitude 42 degrees north and latitude 32 degrees north. On a clear day, California appears as a serene palette of blue, green, brown, white, and red. However, this apparent serenity masks a titanic drama occurring beneath the surface.

#3

The landscape of California is a mosaic of stark contrasts, vibrant and volatile with the geological forces that shaped the western edge of the continent. Coastal California, where settlement began and maintains its greatest density, sustains a variety of salubrious climates.

#4

California is a distinct bioregion due to its water and climate. It is a island on the land, sealed off by the Pacific, the Sierra Nevada, the Klamath and Cascade ranges in the north, and the Mojave Desert in the southeast.

#5

California was home to many ancient trees, including the redwood and the sequoia. It was also home to many animals, including the black bear, the brown bear, and the great grizzly.

#6

The Native Americans of California had been living in the area for more than 25 generations since their ancestors had first settled down at various points and in various ways in the mountain- and desert-guarded enclave.

#7

The Native American California was made up of many different tribes, and each had their own unique culture. The Yuki, the Tolowa, the Karok, and the Yurok were a group of fishing peoples who lived in the northwest. The Wintun, the Shasta, and the Yana lived in the west.

#8

The Native American Californiaans were not warlike, and they did not develop elaborate hierarchies. They had no need to make war, since they had plenty of food and resources to sustain themselves.

#9

The first Californians were a highly developed culture that existed outside of the European and American cultures that came after them. They had a rich heritage of creation myths, totems, and taboos, as well as rituals and protocols for stylized warfare and peace.
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#1

The exploration and conquest of the New World was motivated by the dream of places as far-fetched as Queen Calafia’s island. The Spanish sailing expedition commanded by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the coast of South America in 1520, and the Philippines ten days later.

#2

When Cortés arrived in Baja California in 1535, he named it Santa Cruz. He spent two years trying to establish a colony there, but he was obsessed with the island. He believed that it was the location of a legendary city of gold.

#3

By the early 1540s, the Spaniards had moved the borders of New Spain northward as far as Alta California. In mid-1542, Viceroy de Mendoza commissioned the experienced navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to explore the coastlands and reach the Strait of Anián, which supposedly connected the Atlantic and the Pacific.

#4

The first Europeans to reach California were the crew of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, who in 1542 landed on San Miguel Island and died from his infection two years later. The interest in the Californias went into remission for more than two decades until the conquest of the Philippines in 1564.

#5

The 1579 California sojourn of Sir Francis Drake, knighted by Queen Elizabeth upon his return, reinforced the strategic importance of California as a place midway between the Spanish interests in Southeast Asia and the Far East, and the imperial construct of New Spain and the viceroyalty of Peru.

#6

The Spanish began to develop a connection with California in the mid-1580s. In 1595, a Portuguese merchant-adventurer named Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño was sent to explore the coast of Alta California for possible ports. He named the harbor the Bay of San Francisco, and claimed the region for Spain.

#7

The last Spanish expedition to explore Alta California was led by Sebastián Vizcaíno in 1602. It missed the entrance to San Francisco Bay, but it did explore and name the Bay of Monterey, which was seen as a perfect harbor for Manila galleons arriving from the Philippines.

#8

The Laws of the Indies and accepted church practice sought to evangelize Native Americans and educate them in religion and the manual arts during a period of residency in a mission, leading them eventually to become baptized Catholics and useful citizens.

#9

The notion that Spain abandoned California after the Vizcaíno expedition of 1602 is misleading. What Spain did was to assign the Jesuits the responsibility for the missions on the northern Mexican frontier, which included Peninsular and Upper California.

#10

The Spanish empire was expanding, and the Jesuits were protecting the Native Americans from exploitation. But the crown believed that the Jesuits had become too powerful an order, and they were running things on their own terms.

#11

The Franciscan order was formed by the Renaissance, and they tended to be more medieval in their piety. They valued simplicity, and Saint Francis of Assisi was not a scholar, yet subsequent Franciscans were academics while remaining loyal Franciscans.

#12

The Sacred Expedition was a phantasmagoria of physical hardship, deprivation, suffering, and death. It took three small ships and three hundred men to explore and settle Alta California, which was long dreamed of but only sketchily reconnoitered.

#13

By the time the land and sea parties were fully consolidated on July 1, 1769, only half of the Sacred Expedition was left alive. The San Antonio returned to La Paz for supplies and reinforcements, and Portolá took his men north to explore the Bay of Monterey.

#14

Spanish California had the same fundamental flaw that had characterized the Jesuit missions of Baja: the lack of a secular civil society. Only San José de Guadalupe, founded in 1777, and Los Angeles, founded in 1781, were chartered as pueblos, which is to say, as secular townships.

#15

The founder of Spanish California, Bucareli, was a religious under vows. He backed Serra, but he also sent the distinguished soldier Juan Bautista de Anza north on two crucial expeditions to reconnoiter a land route from northern Mexico to California and to establish a settlement on San Francisco Bay.

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