Social Studies Lesson 20

Social Studies Lesson 20

Question 1: a
The Spanish settlers ate grains, and fruits, including palms (dates), olives (yummy), figs (mmm…), oranges (YUM!), and pomegranates (icky!). They mostly grew their food and then picked it.
b.
The Spanish missions were temporary dwellings, but only for the people that dwelled there. They packed up and moved, but left the missions there.
The missions were made of a sturdy clay, called adobe.
Missions were defiantly villages (or towns), built around churches.
c.
I couldn't’t find any info on Spanish settlers’ utensils, tools, or weapons, due to the fact that I only have California Missions, California History, and (Present Day) California’s Coasts, and not California’s Spanish Settlers’ Lifestyle.
d.
The Spanish did not trade for food or supplies, i.e. , the clay that missions were made out of was natural adobe, and their food was grown and picked.
e.
Religion must've been important for the Spanish, because part of the entire concept of the Missions was a church. The Missions were towns centered around churches.
I didn't get info on how the churches were used or how they affected the lives of Missionaries, though.
f.
The Spanish settlers had large flocks of sheep, and herds of cows and horses. These were used for their modern day uses: meat, wool, and milk.
g.
I couldn't find any info on clothing besides pictures. In a painting in my California History book, Junípero Serra (The founder of Los Angeles) wore a tan floppy hat, rugged boots, tan pants, and a tan shirt.
h.
The Spanish settlers were too busy building Missions to play music, and children were not brought to California, so there were no games.


Q 2: a.
The relationship with Native Americans? Bad. They had slave labor, whippings, and their statues were felled by Spanish and they put up Christian ones. The Spanish were so devilishly mean, that they thought that if the Natives were enslaved, they could live in leisure. Spanish priest Bartolome de Las Casas said, “To these quiet Lambs… came the Spaniards like most cruel tigers, wolves, and lions, enraged with a sharp and tedious hunger; for these forty years past, minding nothing else than the slaughter of these unfortunate wretches, whom with diverse kinds of torments neither seen nor heard of before, they have so cruelly and inhumanely butchered.”
Torment? Slaughter!!!!??? BUTCHERED!!!!!!!!!!?? THE SPANISH WERE SO DEVILISHLY HELL-LIKE TORTURERS!
b.
The Indians were not removed from the land, but kept there as slaves. The Spanish let them do most of the work, and they organized trips and stuff.
c.
The Indians were living side-by-side with the Spanish, but not in a we’re-a-big-happy-family way. They were slaves, as mentioned above, but if the had no purpose, they would probably be booted out or killed for no reason.
d.
They Indians only helped the Spanish by slavery.
e.
As for the Spanish helping them, the only positive thing between Spanish and Indians was that they taught the Indians to farm for food.
f.
The settlers just wanted to build missions, and gain power, and torture the Indians. The Indians probably just wanted them OUT of the woods, and to just live life.
g.
The settlers used the land to build missions and to farm, and the Indians used the land to fish and hunt and live. Two COMPLETELY different things.