What impact did hernando cortes make when he discovered the baja peninsula in california?

In the spring of 1535, Hernán Cortés set sail for an island he believed to be “rich in pearls and gold” and “populated by women, without a single mate.” When the conquistador made landfall on May 3 with a group of settlers, he established the town of Santa Cruz and set about searching for his spoils.

As it turned out, Cortés was not on an island. Instead, he had landed on the peninsula we know today as Baja California and, in the process, began the colonization of California — more than 250 years before the founding of San Diego in 1769.

Santa Cruz would not survive long. More than 20 colonists starved on the desert coast, and a hostile reception by the peninsula’s native inhabitants compounded the settlement’s troubles. Within two years, the colony —located at the present-day site of La Paz — was abandoned.

The story of Cortés’ misadventure is told in W. Michael Mathes’ The Conquistador in California, one of several books on display inside USC’s Doheny Memorial Library as part of an exhibition honoring Mathes ’62, a historian who died in August.

Explanation:

1) the taiping rebellion was prompted from 1850-1864 and waged against the ruling of machu qing dynasty. the rebellion was caused by hong xiuquan and class differences, later leading to a radical change in social and economic structure.

3) karl marx, a believer of the principle of socialism, believed that the working class would have to free themselves from the exploitation of industrialists by establishing a radical socialist classless society where all industries and   property are owned by the state.

5) as indians revolt gained power, people found additional reasons to protest against the british rule. princely families joined the uprising due to changes to the inheritance law which made adopted children ineligible to assume the throne. this was an attempt by the british to control royal succession in the princely states that were nominally independent from the british.

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