Other editions of book California; A Romantic Story for Young People

Native Americans have lived in the area which is now California for 13,000 to 15,000 years. Numerous tribes and bands inhabited the area.The name California is thought to have first occurred fable "Sergas de Esplandain" first published in about 1500 and republished for several other editions. In this account California is described as an island where the most common metal was gold and populated only with fierce female Amazon warriors.Mapmakers started using the name "California" to label the unexplored territory on the Pacific west coast. The 1562 map of Americas, which applied the name California for the first time. European explorers flying the flags of Spain and of England explored the Pacific Coast of California beginning in the mid-16th century. Francisco de Ulloa explored the west coast of present-day Mexico including the Gulf of California, proving that Baja California was a peninsula,but in spite of his discoveries the myth persisted in European circles that California was an island. After the discovery and subsequent subjugation of the very wealthy Aztec civilization in 1520 and the Inca civilization in Peru in 1530, the Spanish Conquistadors and the Spanish Crown were anxious to find a another source of fabulous wealth. Rumors of fabulously wealthy cities located somewhere along the California coast, as well as a possible Northwest passage that would provide a much shorter route to the Indies, provided an incentive to explore further. The first European to explore the California coast Cabrilho. By 1540 he was a wealthy conquistador and ship builder who had worked his way up the ranks. Under the sponsorship of Guatemala's governor Pedro de Alvarado, he helped create the first ship building industry on the Pacific coast. All ropes, sails, pulleys and metal parts, tools, nails, anchors had to be ordered from Spain, shipped to a port on the east coast of Mexico, and transported across Mexico to the west coast where the ships were to be built.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.