Spanish colonization of the Americas

to Christopher Columbus, “Following the light of the sun, we left the old world” . In the year 1492 a European explorer called Christopher Columbus lead a Spanish expedition, which located the western hemisphere including North America, South America and the Caribbean . Columbus's discovery led to an era of European exploration and colonization. As such a country colonizes land when it sets up settlements, colonies, or people and controls the economies and governments in them. There were many…

the conquistadores and the ignorance of the natives. The abuse and slavery had a hand on their death but also the Conquistadores moved throughout the continent introducing European diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles and typhus in to the Americas. The majority of the natives had no immunity against such diseases as a result; they died by the hundreds of thousands not able to resist the invasion. In time, European disease would truly devastate the natives of central Mexico. When…

Monroe, author of “The Monroe Doctrine.” The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement set in 1823. On December 2, 1823, President James Monroe used his speech to state the efforts by European nations to colonize land in North or South America, would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. The Doctrine was to show that the United States was the only country that could influence such political matters. Further, several countries…

The Imperialism of Latin America throughout History Latin America has constantly been colonized or influenced by outside entities since the new world was discovered in the sixteenth century. Subsequently, these outside influences have constantly shaped Latin America into a part of the world that continuously benefits a small number of elites, and foreign interests. While the average Latin American citizen does not gain any advantage from outside influence, they are constantly fighting for a…

Introduction The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is located on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela is bordered by the following three countries and a sea: to the east Guyana, to the west Colombia, to the south Brazil and to the north the Atlantic Ocean. The longest border is with Colombia than Brazil. The topography of Venezuela is a very mountainous can be broken down into four geographical divisions. These divisions are the Andes’ chain to the north, Lake Maracaibo to the west,…

the discovery of the New World in 1492. Europeans came over to the Americas to explore and expand. Spain started to conquer all over Mesoamerica, soon after France and England tried to establish colonies. English colonies struggled at first, but then became sufficient. Causing a huge change for the Native Americans living in the land. Both the colonist and natives in the New World experienced life-changing event in early America. Christopher Columbus “discovered” the New World in 1492, when in…

impact that the slave trade had on the colonization and international trade of early America. I will be do this by summarizing information from two of our text books, African Americans: A Concise History, Chapters 3-9, and Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Sec. 1 Doc. 1, 3, 5-15. Many know that America was originally inhabited by the native Indians, or as Americans Indians. As the British colonized countries around the world, including the coast of North America, the American Indians had a…

Mexican-Americans have been labeled socially in America numerous times and each one hasn’t been much different than the previous. With this being said, Mexicans in America have had difficulties trying to establish themselves into American society while either assimilating into the Anglo-Saxon culture or defying the Anglo-Saxons’ by enforcing their own. Regardless they were heavily faced with discrimination among the Euro-Americans throughout the course of Post Mexican-American War and up until…

Colonization in the early American south was developed through a deeply rooted and complex system of cultural relations. Although often thought of as simple, the colonization of what would eventually become the United States south, was an elaborate and intricate process like that of any other region. The true impact of many of the cultures involved have gone unrecognized. However, it was these unrecognized groups whose societies, choices, and interactions laid the ground work for economic and…

The European exploration and colonization on the native people had many causes for what was happening. The people in England wanted to escape because of the religion. The explorers had glory and fame because they explored new things. Many people asked the explorers if they can explore or find something new, so the people who send them can have gold, riches, new material which would be their precious metals, and so they can find pathways to Asia, it was hard to find or even get through a pathway.…