The Spanish Settlement at Saint Augustine
What
do these Spaniards mean when they say they want to lay claim to
the land?
"It means this," she tells you. "They bestride the mountains. With one
foot on the plain and the other on the valley, they grasp the eastern
and western sea and their heads rests on the moon."
Another Timucuan explains: "They do it this way: they come in and drive everyone else out. They even fight other white men for land that was never theirs. With spear, gun and cannon, they drive all away. They claim to own the land and then they draw maps."
You know about maps. But what is a gun? What is a cannon? And what could it mean to own the land?
Ask what is a gun? What is a cannon?
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