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granted a large estate as well as some native slaves. Cortez first served as a soldier in an expedition of Cuba led by Diego Velázquez in 1511, but he ignored those orders and traveled to Mexico with about 500 men and 11 ships in 1519. He explored for Spain and found the Aztecs. He wanted to…

Christopher Columbus, a well-known explorer, was funded by Queen Isabella. He brought her new lands to Spain and new trade. Many explorers did this to bring fame to themselves. Amerigo Vespucci was a map maker who sailed to Americas and other parts of the world to help him create better and more realistic maps as well as figure out new means of navigation…

Guadalquivir river, within Spain. From early in the 2rd century Cordoba was part of the Roman empire. Under Roman rule it became a place that was the centre of Roman intellectual life in Iberia and was referred to as Colonia Patricia, for the class of its citizens With the invasion of the Roman Empire through the 3rd and 5th centuries by the Germanic Visigoths, Cordoba was under Visigothic rule between the 6th and 8th centuries until the Moors invaded in 711 CE. As Muslim Spain or Andalus…

expansion and colonization of the New World depends on who you look at. England, Spain, Portugal, private companies, and disgruntle groups mostly Religious organizes, all had similar but also individual motives for colonizing the new world. Spain, Portugal and England all desired new and unclaimed land for the natural resource and precious metals. Although England had no real desire to expand its empire into the new world till Spain and France threated English colonizes by expanding their claim…

people to convert to christianity. Colombus would come back and attempt to settle the land with a thousand men but fails. Later on a man named Nicola de Ovando arrived with two thousand five hundred men and established the first permanent base for spain. Spain took an early lead in European expansion. As Spain’s reach grew, so did its problems with the indigenous people of the new land they had discovered. The Spanish were taking the indigenous people and forcefully converting them to their…

Portuguese, Italian, and Moroccan. The population represents the different waves of immigration over the past 300 years. The official language is English, but there are a lot of people who speak Spanish. Gibraltar’s border with the North is with Southern Spain. La Linea of the Cadiz province is the town closest to the border. La Linea is a very poor town and is struggling economically. Many of the people who live in La…

Many experts knew that his calculations were off, making his plan referred to as a “crazy scheme.” First being rejected by the Portuguese who had already gained access to African goods, Columbus took his plan to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain who were jealous of Portugal’s recent success in Africa. Much like many countries during this time the Spanish shared the same motives of exploration wanting to gain access to African and Asian goods,…

Columbus' agreement with the Spanish rulers guaranteed that he could keep 10 percent of whatever wealth he found, alongside a respectable title and the governorship of any lands he should encounter. On August 3rd, 1492, Columbus and his team set sail from Spain in three ships: the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Clause Maria. On October 12th, the boats made landfall-not in Asia, as Columbus expected, but rather on one of the Bahamian islands. For a considerable length of time, Columbus cruised…

plague was caused by Jews contaminating the wells. This belief led to many pogroms occurring across Europe, such as in Strasbourg and Dresden. By the 1400’s, anti-Semitism continued to spread across Europe, and became commonplace in Spain by 1475. The newly united Spain wanted to make Christianity Spain’s only religion, and with the help of Pope Sixtus, they started the Spanish inquisition. At the start, Jews were either put into ghettos and forced to wear badges (like the holocaust), or…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of Spanish Colonial Missions in Texas in order to gain a better understanding of Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz. Spanish Colonial missions in Texas have a rich archaeological and ethnohistorical record that provide insight to daily lives of missions as well as the long-term processes of the Spanish government on the North American continent. The Spanish government funded mission projects in order to spread Catholicism as well as adopt the…