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- Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire (Ghent, County of Flanders, February 24, 1500-Cuacos de Yuste, September 21, 1558), called « el César ", he reigned together with his mother, Juana I of Castilla —the latter only nominally and until 1555—, in all the Hispanic kingdoms and territories under the name of Carlos I from 1516 to 1556, bringing together thus for the first time in the same person the crowns of Castile —the Kingdom of Navarre included— and Aragon.
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Oct 19, 2020 · The region of modern-day Brazil was claimed for Portugal in 1500 by the Portuguese aristocrat and mariner Pedro Álvares Cabral (l. c. 1468 - c. 1520) while parts of modern-day Canada were claimed for France after its exploration by the Florentine seaman and explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (l. 1485-1528, who mapped the entire eastern seaboard of North America) in 1524, leading to the ...
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The first European countries to begin colonizing the Americas were Spain and Portugal. Spain claimed and settled Mexico, most of Central and South America, several islands in the Caribbean, and what are now Florida, California, and the Southwest region of the United States. Portugal gained control of Brazil.
views 2,013,011 updated. Christianity and Colonial Expansion in the Americas. Spain 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.
Jul 25, 2022 · The staggering quantity of gold the conquistadors extracted from the Americas allowed Spain to become the richest country in the world. The thirst for gold to pay for armies and gain personal enrichment resulted in waves of expeditions of discovery and conquest from 1492 onwards. In only the first half-century or so of the Spanish conquest of ...
- Mark Cartwright
- Did the conquistadors find gold?The conquistadors found a tremendous quantity of gold in the Americas, over 100 tons of it between 1492 and 1560.
- How much gold did Cortés take from the Aztecs?Hernán Cortés extracted literally tons of gold from the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican civilizations. Countless artefacts were melted down and Aztec...
- Where did the Spaniards get their gold?The Spaniards got their gold from indigenous peoples across their empire, but particularly from Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. Artefacts and jew...
Identify the main Spanish American colonial settlements of the 1500s and 1600s, and the motives for establishing them. Describe the economic, political, and social circumstances of Spanish colonization in the Americas. Figure 1. Timeline showing some of the major events and the earliest European colonies in North America.
Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire (Ghent, County of Flanders, February 24, 1500-Cuacos de Yuste, September 21, 1558), called « el César", he reigned together with his mother, Juana I of Castilla —the latter only nominally and until 1555—, in all the Hispanic kingdoms and territories under the name of Carlos I from 1516 to 1556, bringing together thus for the first time in ...
[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.)
