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What made establishing missions in California more difficult for the Spanish than in Texas, Florida, or other parts of the Southeast?
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- 00:07
Okay check out this picture Franciscan Friars Nice hat there
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guys And a bottle be the scrivener kind of bag
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Okay The question What made establishing missions in California MME
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Or difficult for the Spanish than in Texas Florida or
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other parts of the Southeast New Spain had a unique
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- 00:26
tactic when it came to Colonial izing North America Namely
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they focused on sending over a strong few to conquer
- 00:33
territory rather than shipping over a bunch of settler yahoos
- 00:37
and hoping for the best well Spanish missionary settled primarily
- 00:40
in the South in Florida Texas and New Mexico in
- 00:43
the mid eighteenth century They spread to California which any
- 00:46
Callie transplant can tell you makes for a big lifestyle
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change and we don't just mean instagramming avocado So the
- 00:53
answer is a The land wasn't great for agriculture or
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sustaining lots of livestock so Spain had a lot of
- 00:58
control over its colonies OB VI and had very specific
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rules for them Rule number one You're all about producing
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raw materials converting indigenous people and letting the big guys
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back home handle Far East trade So it wasn't see
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And since the British and the French were settled much
- 01:13
further east on the American continent well this should have
- 01:16
been smooth sailing right But no it was not While
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the indigenous groups in California were less organized than another
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Spanish colonial holdings making it slightly easier for the missionaries
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to gain control of the region The production of raw
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materials caused problem The land in California wasn't adequate for
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farming or sustaining agriculture Ultimately they have to learn how
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to manage the arid landscape from the indigenous groups Who'd
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learned to adapt See isn't working together so much better
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than like just killing everyone write The correct answer is 00:01:45.48 --> [endTime] X
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