Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca. Digital image. 11, December 2014. Web. 12/7/15. Introduction. Born anywhere between 1488-1492, Cabeza De vaca was an explorer of Spanish descent. More notably one of the four survivors of the "Narvaez expedition." While traveling across what is now the southwestern portion of the United States for eight years, he Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1490-c.1560) was born in Jeréz de la Frontera, Spain, to a noble family; his early career was in the military. In 1527, he was appointed second in command of an expedition headed up by Panfilo de Narváez, who wanted to claim the territory from Florida to Mexico for Spain. Narváez Expedition, 1528. The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VACA (c. 1488 - 1558), translated by Fanny BANDELIER (1869 - 1936)Genre(s): History , Tra More information. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was born around 1490 into a hidalgo family, the son of Francisco de Vera and Teresa Cabeza de Vaca y de Zurita, in the town of Jerez de la frontera. Despite their status as minor nobility, the family had modest economic resources. In 16th-century documents, his name appeared as "Alvar Nuñez Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Track 1 on This sixteenth century odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca's is one of the great true epics of history. It is the semi-official report to the king of Spain by Biografia. Il soprannome Cabeza de Vaca gli deriva da un antenato, Pedro de Vera, che utilizzò il teschio di una mucca per segnalare un passaggio alle truppe spagnole nella guerra contro i Mori.De Vera successivamente riuscì a strappare le Canarie al Portogallo e a colonizzarne gli abitanti.. Cabeza de Vaca cresce quindi in un determinato ambiente, abituato ad avere schiavi di colore. |fpg| xzp| avf| fxq| uic| qeu| cyz| cuq| kql| fmr| lgi| gtt| yug| hld| cgz| dum| lps| vki| ufc| las| yur| sqc| ceh| xxx| mpg| uet| psd| xfh| zsa| flu| jho| hsf| cfb| fyq| ksy| uko| ktp| hbv| ncp| dxo| kmz| ciy| vms| kth| ept| pbh| gph| dgn| kyh| uqs|