Spanish Imperialism
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The Spanish Conquest of the Americas
The Spanish Conquest of the Americas
The Spanish conquest
by David Bushnell 13/10/25 Britannica
Rodrigo de Bastidas was first to establish Spain’s claim to the isthmus, sailing along the Darién coast in March 1501, but he made no settlement. A year later Christopher Columbus, on his fourth voyage, sailed along the Caribbean coast from the Bay of Honduras to Panama, accumulating much information and a little gold but again making no settlement.
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire and its Indigenous allies. Taking place between 1519 and 1521, this event saw the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, and his small army of European soldiers and numerous indigenous allies, overthrowing one of the most powerful empires in Mesoamerica.
Tracing the Movement of Populations in Latin America
In the late fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus and his Spanish crew stumbled across the Americas searching for a trade route to Asia. First landing in the Caribbean, the Spanish encountered Native Americans living among the islands. The initial peaceful interactions between the Spanish and the indigenous people of the New World swiftly gave way to the violence of conquest. Many of the Spanish had come to the New World seeking wealth; for them, conquest was an enterprise. The possibility of acquiring riches drew yet more Spaniards to the New World at the dawn of the sixteenth century. Hernán Cortés led the first major conquest in Mexico in 1519 and toppled the Aztec Empire there in 1521.
Conquistador
Conquistadors (/kɒnˈk(w)ɪstədɔːrz/, US also /-ˈkiːs-, kɒŋˈ-/) or conquistadores[1] (Spanish: [koŋkistaˈðoɾes]; Portuguese: [kõkiʃtɐˈðoɾɨʃ, kõkistɐˈdoɾis]; lit. 'conquerors') were Spanish and Portuguese colonizers who explored, traded with and conquered parts of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania during the Age of Discovery.[2][3] Sailing beyond the Iberian Peninsula, they established numerous colonies and trade routes, and brought much of the New World under the dominion of Spain and Portugal.
The Conquistadors: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas – 1518-1548
In the half-century after Columbus, small bands of daring Spanish adventurers conquered Central and South America, destroying the huge armies of long-established native empires in the process. Some won great fortunes in gold, while many others only died an early death. These men were The Conquistadors. In this partly card-driven, partly procedural game —a brand-new design from Jon Southard — one to five players each control a group of conquistadors, trying to discover and loot the civilizations of the Americas and end up with the most gold and power.
How smallpox devastated the Aztecs – and helped Spain conquer an American civilization 500 years ago
by Richard Gunderman 23/2/19 PBS NEWS
Recent outbreaks in the U.S. have drawn attention to the dangers of measles. The Democratic Republic of Congo is fighting a deadly outbreak of Ebola that has killed hundreds.
Exploring the Early Americas
The Conquest of Mexico paintings are significant both artistically and historically. Painted in the seventeenth century, the eight detailed canvases tell the story of the 1521 Spanish conquest of the native Aztec people. These images highlight battles between the Spanish and the Aztecs, ceremonial encounters of the Spanish conquistador with the emperor Moctezuma, and other pivotal historic moments. The series ends with the dramatic "Conquest of Tenochtitlán" (the capital of the Aztec civilization, now Mexico City) and the capture of the last Aztec king.
Spanish Conquest & Aztecs: The impact and legacy of colonisation
The arrival of the Spanish in 1519 signalled the beginning of the end of the Aztec Empire. The final defeat of the Aztecs in 1521 had a number of consequences not only for the Aztec people, but for the whole Mesoamerican region. Read through these resources to find out more about the impact and legacy of colonisation.
A Cultural History of Spanish America. From Conquest To Independence
Mariano Picón-Salas’ A Cultural History of Spanish America, which appeared recently, was published under the Latin-American Translation Program of the Association of American University Presses. A cultural rather than a political narrative, it consists of a number of lectures given by the author at various universities in the United States.
The Significance of Spanish Colonial Missions in our National Story and our Common Heritage with Spain, Mexico and Latin America
By the end of the 15th century, the Middle Ages came to a close as the modern world emerged. The legacy of the Middle Ages, the "Age of Faith," left its mark on the future of religion in Europe and after 1492, on the Americas. That year, Spain militarily defeated the Moors and initiated a period of expulsion for those who would not convert to Christianity. Following Columbus' first voyage, Spain had a new goal in that regard.
Early Latino History
by National Museum of the American Latino
The National Museum of the American Latino creates transformative experiences, fosters a deeper understanding of American history and culture, and connects communities nationwide.
Colliding Cultures
Juan Ponce de León arrived in the area named La Florida in 1513. He found between 150,000 and 300,000 Native Americans. But then two and a half centuries of contact with European and African peoples—whether through war, slave raids, or, most dramatically, foreign disease—decimated Florida’s Indigenous population. European explorers, meanwhile, had hoped to find great wealth in Florida, but reality never aligned with their imaginations.
Spanish Colonization and Control
Spanish colonists in the Americas attempted to capture and control land, resources, and labor from indigenous societies. They often used violence. They also used lasting methods of control by imposing social and economic institutions, like colonial governments and markets. This led many societies to adapt to European practices.
Timeline: Spanish empire
by HistoryWorld 1492-1968 Oxford Reference
Christopher Columbus, together with the brothers Martin and Vicente Pinzón, sails west from Palos in Spain
97,000 newly acquired artifacts tell story of America’s Spanish past
by Stephenie Livingston 13/3/14 FLORIDA MUSEUM
Early in the 1930s, a gardener discovered a skull while planting an orange tree at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park in St. Augustine.
Spanish Conquest and Colonization of the Americas
by James F Hancock 12/11/22 SPRINGER NATURE LINK
Beginning with Columbus’s discovery of the island he called San Salvador in 1492, a Spanish Empire grew in the sixteenth century across most of the Caribbean, half of South America, and most of Central America. As each new area of Mexico, Central and South America were opened by conquest, Spanish immigrants rapidly followed. By 1600, the Spanish had settled in a broad band across highland Mexico, a strip of the Gulf Caribbeans, the Andean and Central American highlands, Chile and Coastal Peru, and Argentina and Paraguay.
European colonization of Americas killed so many it cooled Earth's climate
by Oliver Milman in New York 31/1/19 The Guardian
Settlers killed off huge numbers of people in conflicts and also by spreading disease, which reduced the indigenous population by 90% in the century following Christopher Columbus’s initial journey to the Americas and Caribbean in 1492.
Accept our king, our god − or else: The senseless ‘requirement’ Spanish colonizers used to justify their bloodshed in the Americas
by Diego Javier Luis 2/10/24 THE CONVERSATION
Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor for the evils of early colonial empires, and rightly so.
Impact of Spanish Colonization
by Jonathan Cordero National Park Service
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1769, the indigenous peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula, the Ramaytush, numbered about 2,000 persons. They were divided into ten independent tribes along the San Francisco Peninsula.
Genocide of indigenous peoples
According to certain genocide experts, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – colonialism is intimately connected with genocide.[7][8] Lemkin saw genocide via colonization as a two-stage process: (1) the destruction of the indigenous group's way of life, followed by (2) the settlers' imposition of their way of life on the indigenous group.[9][10] Other scholars view genocide as associated with but distinct from settler colonialism.[4][11]
Conquest and Commerce: Spain and England in the Americas
by Lang, James 1/5/1976 DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book is a stimulating and evocative comparison of English and the Spanish colonial societies from the beginning of settlement until independence. It belongs to the series of Studies in Social Discontinuity under the consulting editorship of Charles Tilly and Edward Shorter. The author is a young, historically oriented sociologist trained at Michigan and now teaching at Vanderbilt.
The Changing Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest in the Americas
by Oxford University Press 3/7/23 WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLPEDIA
The fall in 1519 of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica or Aztec Empire, as it was later called, laid the foundation for the Spanish colonial empire on the North American mainland. It was the first time that Europeans had subjugated a highly organized state outside the world they had hitherto known. In the process, they created the basis for the first global colonial empires.
