Spanish Food In 1492 Essay

In 1492 the wars in Spain came to a halt.King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had become two of the most important people in Catholicism, for they had become the Catholic Kings. In 1943 word had reached Europe that Christopher Columbus had reached a new landmass, also known as the new world. With this news, people from Europe started to come to the new world, and thus caused different ethnic groups to start mixing, not only in culture but in physical ethnicity as well. People that had Indigenous and Spanish roots were call Mestizo, or mixed in Spanish. With the influx of people coming to the new world, also came an influx of trade. Europe valued the metals Gold and Silver, but they also valued clothing dyes, most notable being red, which in Europe was expensive and …show more content…
When the Europeans found this out, they began trading materials for the red dye, and the Cochineal dye soon became the third most valuable object to the old world(Europe). Not only the dye was important though, so were the foods that were native to the new world, such as corn, potatoes and tomatoes, which people had built cities from growing those crops. When the Catholic Kings had gotten news of the new world, they wanted to convert the people of the new world into Catholics, but the Aztecs had firm beliefs and firm grasps on their own religion. This inevitably lead to the Conquistadors coming and committing the Catholic Conquests on the indigenous people of the new world. After the Conquests were over, the Conquistadors were told by the Catholic Kings that they were to treat the people of the new world like citizens of Spain, and this was called the new laws. But the poor treatment of the people continued, and eventually through this the Spanish found a mountain of Silver in what is now the Andes. This Silver could’ve brought Spain out of debt, but no one would work in the freeing