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Table of Contents
Introduction: First Encounters..................................2
Finding the Way............................................................8
Spanish Soldiers in La Florida................................16
Two Worlds Meet.......................................................34
First Foods.....................................................................39
Playtime in La Florida...............................................43
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served with Tassajos Fritossun- or winddried jerked beef. Other meals included a
thick bean soup cooked with salt pork, and
various meat and turtle stews. The choicest
food was served to officers and upper-class
passengers, who often feasted on roast fowl,
wine and honey. The usual after-dinner
treat for everyone above the rank of common
seaman was a mug of chocolate, a favorite
beverage among the Spaniards since the
conquest of Mexico, when Cortss men
inherited the bitter cacao bean drink from
the Aztecs and discovered how good it was
when sweetened. On fish days, boiled fish
supplemented the meat, along with a kind
of kidney bean soup called Mongos. Saucersized biscuits made of wheat flour and driedpea flour served as bread. In the course of
the voyage these weevil-ridden disks would
become hard as a rock and could be skipped
across the water like flat stones. When there
was an ample supply of water, the total daily
ration was three pints. A shortage reduced
the amount to a small coconut shell full.
This was all that was allowed for drinking
or bathing.
Photo by
Museum
of Florida
History
Professional
Development
Officer Wanda
Richey,
Tallahassee FL
Photo by
Museum of
Florida History
Professional
Development
Officer Wanda
Richey
shows.
Juan Ponce de Leon named this land
La Florida when he and those with him
first saw it in 1513, and in 1521 he and the
European and African explorers with him
returned to establish a permanent home in
Florida. They failed, and in later years many
similar attempts were madeand they
also failed. With each unsuccessful attempt
the survivors learned more and eventually,
Review Questions
5. What concerns did people have who
were crossing the ocean long ago?
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by Allen Hilburn
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The Sword
The Crossbow
This is one of the premier ranged
weapons of history, originating somewhere
in the middle of the 4th century BC, but
exactly where or with what culture remains
a mystery. European use of the crossbow
can be documented during the 5th century
by the Greeks, and versions existed that
ranged from individual carried weapons to
artillery sized even predating the catapult in
this latter respect.
Plate Armor
Chainmail
Dating back
to the 3rd century,
chainmail is a
type of armor
made up of
interlocking
links. Small rings are made with their
overlapping ends riveted together. It is
effective against sword slashes, but less
so against thrusting weapons and arrows.
Its advantages are that it is flexible, of
relatively light weight and less expensive
then plate armor.
Chainmail could be worn alone, or in
combination with plate armor, which was very
common during the medieval period.
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The Horse
Quilted Armor
Quilted armor in its simplest form is
designed to help distribute the force of any
received blows like other types of armor. It
was primarily used by individuals of lessor
means as it was very inexpensive and easily
self fabricated. It also served as an under
armor garmet for plate and other type of
metal armor to prevent chaffing.
Many variations of this type or armor
exist. In some instances, scrap metal plates
could be sewn into the fabric or hard leather
scales could be attached to the exterior.
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The Matchlock
Technically an arquebus or harquebus,
but generally referred to as a matchlock
today. The matchlock or matchlock full
musket weighed about seventeen pounds
and was fired using a support stick as was
the custom with the handgonne, while the
arquebus weighed on average around ten
pounds and could be fired without the
support stick. The lock, or lock plate on both
was similar, so we will refer to both here as a
matchlock for claritys sake.
The matchlock was first appeared in
Europe in the mid-15th century and in
common use by the beginning of the16th
century. Interestingly, while gun powder was
the invention of the Chinese, the matchlock
was a European invention, introduced to the
Orient by the Portuguese in 1543. Therefore
all of our explorers, including Columbus
(1492) had access to matchlock weapons.
The matchlock improved on the
handgonne by offering a lighter individual
weapon with improved aiming and accuracy.
Its major drawback was its inability to be
reloaded and fire quickly and the inherent
danger of a lit match cord in close proximity
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5. A conqueror.
6. A corsario or privateer is a private man
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What is Missing?
Many native species which would have
greeted the Spanish explorers in 16th century
Florida are now extinct. The Caribbean Monk
Seal, which Ponce de Leons men captured off
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by Ben Gunter
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GAMES played by
newcomers from Spain
Prince:
I present you this present.
Princess: What for?
Prince: Because the light in your eyes
shines brighter than this candle.
or
Because the candle finds the
glory of Christmas, shining in
your eyes,
or
Because your eyes light
the way to the happiest of
birthdays,
or something even more flowery.
http://goo.gl/8MhYu
Clearly, games can give you valuable clues
for building a living picture of playtime in
Spanish colonial Florida. By studying games
that Native Floridians and newcomers from
Spain used to play, and then playing them
yourself, you can make history come to life.
http://goo.gl/65ZNL
Do you hear a wildness in the Pan Pipes
noise? Do the Pan Pipes on YouTube look
like the mysterious instruments that Le Moyne
saw Native Floridians play thick reeds, open
at the top and bottom? What would it sound
like, to have 20 people playing Pan Pipes all
together, marching toward you with an army?
Try making some open-reed instruments
with your class. How easy are they to play?
How hard do you have to work to be the
loudest? Can you reconstruct an ear-picture
of Saturiouas visit to Le Moynes friends?
Spanish MUSIC
Natives Acting
European
We dont have a
primary source yet
to show you that
Native
Floridians
performed plays, but
we can show you
a striking picture
of Florida Indians
responding to French
culture in a highly
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Tecu :
Those things that brought them here
things as big as houses, big-bellied as a
pregnant woman
have spewed out more men marching
on the beach
than this world has ever seen.
Dreadful sight!
Scared me silly,
right down to the conquistadores
beard he wears
behind him.
What is Tecus monster? Guesses from
people watching Theater with a Mission
perform have included a giraffe, a
kangaroo, an alien from outer space,
and a horse, but none of these answers
use every single one of Tecus clues to
solve the mystery completely. Can you
fully unravel this riddle?
Tecus scene is so full of clues about how
people in Spanish colonial Florida might
have played out moments of high drama as
they got to know each other, that Theater with
a Mission has translated it several different
ways. To see Tecu as a 10-year-old boy who
loves to scout, or as a 12-year-old girl who
loves the movies (and Universal Orlando),
click on the clues collected for you here.
http://goo.gl/QH7Pp
http://goo.gl/FhhhD
Happy sleuthing!
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