FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Apartments, Condominiums and Homes
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Neighborhoods, Communities and Common areas
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Missions, Presidios and Towns
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Settlements, Tribes and Culture
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Detailed explanation-1: -Early Spanish settlement in Texas was accomplished by establishing missions, presidios, and towns.
Detailed explanation-2: -missions – religious communities. presidios – military bases. towns – small villages with farmers and merchants.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first Spanish missions were established in the 1680s near present-day San Angelo, El Paso and Presidio – areas that were closely tied to settlements in what is today New Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -The government of New Spain settled the northern borderlands of Mexico and present-day Texas with missions, frontier communities, and presidios. Presidios were colonial frontier military settlements intended to secure and defend Spain’s claim to territories occupied by indigenous populations.
Detailed explanation-5: -The three kinds of settlements in New Spain were pueblos, presidios, and missions. Pueblos were towns or villages that were centers of trade and farming.