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Figure 1. Timeline showing some of the major events and the earliest European colonies in North America. During the 1500s, Spain expanded its colonial empire to the Philippines in the Far East and to areas in the Americas that later became the United States. The Spanish dreamed of mountains of gold and silver and imagined converting thousands ...
- Christopher Columbus
- Probanza de Mérito
- Interest in The New World
Ferdinand and Isabella’s goals were to expand Catholicism and to gain a commercial advantage over Portugal. To those ends, Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored extensive Atlantic exploration. Spain’s most famous explorer, Christopher Columbus, was actually from Genoa, Italy. He believed that by using calculations based on other mariners’ journeys, he c...
Columbus’s 1493 letter—or probanza de mérito (proof of merit)—describing his “discovery” of a New World did much to inspire excitement in Europe. Probanzas de méritos were reports and letters written by Spaniards in the New World to the Spanish crown, designed to win royal patronage. Today they highlight the difficult task of historical work. While...
Another Italian, Amerigo Vespucci, sailing for the Portuguese crown, explored the South American coastline between 1499 and 1502. Unlike Columbus, he realized that the Americas were not part of Asia but lands unknown to Europeans. Vespucci’s widely published accounts of his voyages fueled speculation and intense interest in the New World among Euro...
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Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Christianity and Colonial Expansion in the AmericasSpain was the first European country to colonize what today is North and South America, and the Spanish approach to the region came from several directions. One was from the Caribbean area, primarily Cuba and Puerto Rico, into Florida.
Feb 27, 2020 · By Paul Lay. Head of Zeus, 352pp, £30/$49.95. On the face of it, the situation of English Catholics before the Civil War (perhaps five per cent of the population) looked promising. King Charles I ...
[Report of Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain, to King Charles I of Spain, 1537] The transition from Indian to African slavery in Spanish America is encapsulated in these selections that, while brief, convey years of domination and suffering. (4 pages.)
Charles I of Spain Becomes Holy Roman Emperor, 1519. he King of Spain, Charles I (1500-1558), became Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, at the age of nineteen. Turning over to a teenager the most important and powerful position in Christendom, outside the papacy, could have been better timed, perhaps.
The troubled history of Spanish–American relations has been seen as one of "love and hate". [1] The groundwork was laid by the conquest of parts of the Americas by Spain before 1700. The Spaniards were the first Europeans to establish a permanent settlement in what is now United States territory.
