Candace Bilak
Professor Rocha
U.S. History 101
19 January 2015
Midterm Assignment:
A Closer Look At The Voyages & Letter of Giovanni Da Verrazano’s Circa 1524 It seems within the sixteenth century, early 1500’s new and vivacious explorers were on the prowl in search of new land in the new world due to its recent discovery. Others grew to learn of this new land as the Americas, and this land seemed promising. Despite the curiosity from other nations such as the Dutch, English, Spanish and French, the common gain amongst each nation was to settle and have land that can serve as profitable assets for each individual country. The theme in colonial America at the time portrayed the indigenous people that habited the land as, barbaric brutes that…show more content… Despite his hesitance in the beginning he was accepting of them and soon realized they meant no harm. Undeterred by the situation, the other men on the boat “were filled with terror as always when something new happens.” The quote is interesting to me because it puts everything into perspective. People aren’t born close-minded, they are influenced by their environment and the society surrounding them.
All in all I have mention the factors that stood out to me the most whilst combing through Verrazano’s encounter with the natives. I was able to ascertain that not only was Verrazano was a well-written man; he also had a simple temperament. His wild exaggerated accounts of what he saw was just what they were, internal accounts. He tried his best to captivate the King of France by exalting himself of his accomplishments. His several accounts of him reporting how rough the waters were from his very first arrival, to the illustrations of the resources in Northern America made Verrazano seem boastful. He is filled with such pride and gratification that he even took a boy from another land as a sort of souvenir from the new land he…show more content… Such questions that were concerning was the history of Giovanni Verrazano. Why was he so curiously interested in land that had no treasure within it? Was it to entice the King of France to make a medium of exchange with the natives? I felt that it was quiet vague as to why Verrazano and his twenty men ventured out on his last trip and forcibly took the young boy from his native habitat. I can only assume it was a way to prove to the great majesty of France that they were robust in getting the natives to give them what they