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Hernán Cortés led the 1519 expedition that would defeat this empire. Through bloodshed and clever persuasion, he exploited the social fractures that existed in Mexico, gaining allies among the malcontent subjects of the Aztecs.
- Indigenous Peoples of The Americas
- Agriculture of The Pre-Columbian Americas
- The Spanish Conquest of The Americas
- Organization of Spanish America
- The Spanish Colonial Economy
- The Portuguese Colonization of Brazil
- Impact of Iberian Conquest on The Americas
The Aztec civilization was located in the Gulf Coast Plains of central America and the high reaches of the Sierras. Their empire was a confederation of three huge city-states established in 1427: Tenochtitlan, the capital located on an island near the western shore of Lake Texcocoin central Mexico, Texcoco in the central Mexican plateau, and Tlacop...
The Europeans discovered that these societies were growing crops that were totally alien to them. In fact, two completely different crop assemblages had been domesticated in the Old and New Worlds. The Amerindian farmers grew cassava, maize, potato, beans, squash, tomatoes, and chili peppers, while the Iberians cultivated wheat, barley, cabbage, on...
Columbus was the first to reach the Americas in 1492, and to his dying day, he was sure he had found Asia. Unlike the conquistadors in Spanish America who followed him, he made no large-scale conquest of the indigenous Taíno people. Instead, he established a settlement at La Isabela, in today's Dominican Republic, from which he explored the interio...
Following Cortés' conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Crown of Castile established the Kingdom of New Spain, which covered a huge area including what is now Mexico, much of the American Southwest in North America, Central America, northern parts of South America, and the Philippines. New Spain was made into a kingdom rather than a colony, as the king...
To govern their New World lands, the Spanish organized colonists and native people into two distinct social orders or republics – Spaniards and Amerindians. The Spaniards would supervise the land, run the mines, and staff the colonial administrations, and the Amerindians (la republica de los indios), would provide the labor to feed, house, and clot...
The emergence of a Portuguese Empire in the Americas came about much differently than the Spanish one. The Portuguese initially saw Brazil as more of a trading post than a place to colonize, as they were already heavily invested in the Indian Ocean trade. Instead of sending large military campaigns to conquerthe indigenous people, they occupied the...
During the European colonization of the Americas, the Europeans did all they could to ignore the agricultural achievements of the Amerindians and set out to replace the indigenous agro-ecosystems with their own crops and methods. In this endeavor, they met with only limited success and found that their crops were often poorly adapted. Still, their ...
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Penned within an old hunting park, the French cavalry at the Battle of Pavia found themselves trapped in a deadly crossfire by Imperial arquebusiers. This article appears in: August 2006. By William E. Welsh.
Oct 19, 2020 · In the region of modern-day Venezuela, Francisco Pizarro (l. c. 1476-1541), conquered the Inca in 1532 and the last of their resistance was crushed by 1572. Once the indigenous people had been killed, sold into slavery, or otherwise removed, Spanish colonists established themselves on their lands.
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In the following centuries Pavia was an important and active town. Fights took place against Milan to gain the economic and political power until Pavia, conquered by the Visconti in 1315 and in 1359, remained chained to the rival town under the same Lordship.
The Battle of Pavia, fought on the morning of 24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as well as ruler of Spain, Austria, the Low Countries, and the Two Sicilies.
Contents. Home Geography & Travel Geographic Regions. The Spanish conquest. Vasco Núñez de Balboa. Rodrigo de Bastidas was first to establish Spain’s claim to the isthmus, sailing along the Darién coast in March 1501, but he made no settlement.
