Understand the ways in which ranchos in northern New Mexico provide evidence of the ability of Hispano culture to adapt to new influences while still maintaining its traditional character. Objective 1. To explain how and why Spanish settlement in New Mexico expanded into the valleys east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains; 2. To describe how traditional Hispano culture in the valleys responded to new influences after New Mexico became a territory of the United States; 3. To identify the ways in which surviving ranchos reflect those responses; 4. To investigate the culture of early settlers in t Duration: 90 Minutes.