Blog Post #6 (Panama)

Before the Spanish colonization period indiginous tribes such as the Cuevas and Cocle occupied Panama. Cities and evolved cultures were not developed like the Incas did and there was an population estimate of 200,000-2 million before the arrivial of the Spanish. The arrivial led to a decline in population of the tribes with individuals dying from conflict with the Spanarids, diseases, and fleeing away.

I wanted to give a brief summery of the indiginous tribes because I am going to dicuss more about the topic in my research project.

In 1501 Rodrigo de Bastidas from Triana, Seville, Spain was the first to set foot in eastern Panama on his journey in trying to find gold. Bastidas discovery led to conquests of Panama and the Isthmus of Panama was now in the eye of expeditioners. 10 years later in 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa decided that he was going to find a route in the Isthmus of Panama because he heard of of the Pacific Ocean and vast amounts of gold being located there and successfully explored the Isthmus. Balboa ended up claiming the Pacific Coast for Spain and connected the Pacific ocean with the Caribbean Sea which held importance as those two waters now being known as the bridge of world and gold transportation was used in the Isthmus.

The idea of a canal is nothing new with King Charles I of Spain in the 16th century trying to build a canal but his team deemed it as impossible and ultimately in 1880 France began the construction. The Panama canal was going to connect the two bodies of water of the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean across the Isthmus of Panama but complications arose with high mortality rates with workers debt so the US bought the project in 1903. The US purchased the canal for $40 million and in 1910 it was finally completed. 

These 3 topics are going to be in my research project which is why I gave brief summaries about them and will go more in depth along the way. I am also going to write about their independence, their culture, population, more in depth information about the history and etc.

American History USA. 2020. The Building Of The Panama Canal. [online] Available at: <https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/building-of-panama-canal/>\


Vacationtopanama.com. n.d. History Of Panama: Overview & Highlights. [online] Available at: <https://www.vacationtopanama.com/travel-guide/history-of-panama/>


Frommers.com. n.d. History In Panama | Frommer's. [online] Available at: <https://www.frommers.com/destinations/panama/in-depth/history> [Accessed 22 September 2020].

El Caribe Gris

When I read El Caribe Gris it was kind of hard to understand the main idea because of the poor translation that was given. I had to read the Spanish version as well to get a better view of what they were trying to say about Caribe Gris which did help somewhat but my spanish is rough. I had my dad help me translate most of them after I read the English translation and it was clearer the third time. The main ideas that I originally have are still the same with Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean with the Natives living there with creating a more biased view which impacted how people see the Caribbean now and how he added false depictions of his voyages and encounters which is why the writer called the journal unecessary and usless in the Spanish version.

Blog Post #4

When I found out that this class was going to be more blog based I was worried because I do not have much confidence in my writing skills yet excited that it was not the typical writing essays every month about whatever topic is assigned. Writing and posting my blogs I feel like it meets most of the rubric criteria but I still lack on the grammar and mechanics. The aspects of writing assignments on a blog that creates stress is just trying to start my posts because at times it is hard for me to process my ideas and type them down. In my point of view I am putting my best efforts into my assignments and blog writing even if at times I tend to get confused with the assignment, I make sure to answer them as best as I can. With having a semester fully online for the first time, the month of August I made sure to complete all my assignments on time but I have been experiencing burn out from having to finish 20+ assignments every week so now it is getting harder to turn in assignments. I review and revise my blog posts because then the format when it's typed and posted tends to look different when I press the viewing option. I look for grammar errors, and readability too. I am okay with having other students read my blog since with the peer-reviewing they can tell me what I can revise on things I missed when I revised the post myself. What I would like for us to discuss about improving our blog writings is other students' writing process with their blogs. What I have learned is blog posts are written in a day because that number surprised me.

Honduras History

The history of Honduras goes back to individuals migrating from North America, traveling through Central America to arrive in South America and along the way some did end up staying in Honduras and there are artifacts that date back to 12,000 BC from the migration. Then the Mayan civilization was prevalent with the ancient city of Copan but it collapsed in 800 AD. In 1502 Christopher Columbus arrived in the Guanaja which is part of the Bay Islands and gave the name Honduras which means depth because of the deep waters in the Bay Islands. With Spanish conquistadors now trying to gain the country of Honduras such as Cristobal de Olid who was Hernan Cortez man and Gil Gonzáles dávila led to conflicts which ultimately had Honduras gaining its independence. Its culture relfects with the conquests and colonization Honduras endured in the 16th century. Honduras ethnic makeup is mixed with mostly Mestizos (having European and Amerindian descent), Amerindian, Afro-Honduran, White-Honduran, and other ethnicities included.
Its official language is Spanish with 63-65 percent of the population being Romen Catholic.


Its foods are baleadas which is a flour tortilla filled with fried red beans, cheese, and butter but you can add other ingrediants.

Pastelitos de perro which are made from corn flour tortilla with ground meat inside topped off with cheese. 

 

Nacatamales which are mostly eaten on festive occasions like Christmas.




Three Regions I would like to adopt are Honduras, Panama, and Costa Rica.

Work Cited:

“Culture Of Honduras.” Centralamerica, www.centralamerica.com/honduras/culture/.

Nag, Oishimaya Sen. “The Culture Of Honduras.” WorldAtlas, WorldAtlas, 6 Mar. 2019, www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-culture-of-honduras.html.

“Honduras.” Countries and Their Cultures, www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Honduras.html.