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Hello wild Floridians! Welcome back! I am Kyra Foures, your Floridian blogger and today I will inform you on some interesting points from Chapter 3 of The History of Florida.
As local Floridians know, history is very important to know how this state evolved to where it is now, and it is still evolving to this day. I now would like to explain a very fascinating piece of knowledge.
Something that I found interesting in Chapter 3 of the textbook is that the Spanish mariners were who first saw the shores of La Florida. It appeared to have various features that made it more appealing such as hammocks, river valleys, pines, etc. According to page 43, it states that these shores include "unbroken forests of pines and mixed pines and hardwoods running from the sea to the great stands of fire-tolerant longleaf pine trees that marked the edges of the piedmont in the Carolinas and Georgia and covered the northern highlands of the peninsula." The forest provided for florist communities and many factors went into it such as soils, rainfalls, hunting practices, Native American agricultural, and so much more! No one has probably ever thought this information is important, but it is because it is beneficial to know the background of where things or places have been first discovered and by who.
How do you feel like this information could be beneficial to the future of Florida?
It is crazy to think of what could be going through the Spanish mariners' minds when they discover such a thing. Anything we see throughout the day that is new to us, know that there is history about it and try to research how it become.
It is very thought-provoking of the fact that the little things mean way more than we may think.
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