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Empire: How Spain Became a World Power
- Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763.
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The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [8] [9] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, [10] controlling vast portions of the Americas ...
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A high-level overview of Spanish efforts at early colonization.
Early interactions between the Spanish and Native Americans who lived in Central and South America led to a series of cultural exchanges that affected both the New World and the Old World.
Motivations for colonization: Spain’s colonization goals were to extract gold and silver from the Americas, to stimulate the Spanish economy and make Spain a more powerful country. Spain also aimed to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Development of labor systems: In order to extract natural resources from the Americas, European colonizers created labor systems, like the encomienda system, to exploit Native American labor. When Native Americans began to die from diseases like smallpox, the Spanish and Portuguese began capturing and sending enslaved Africans to the Americas as a labor force.
•What were the three main motivating factors for Spanish to begin colonizing?
•What were the implications of the Spanish integrating both Native Americans and enslaved Africans into colonial society?
Apr 25, 2024 · How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History. Hardcover – April 25, 2024. The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth.
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Manuel Lucena Giraldo
Nov 6, 2022 · The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire and the first to be described as one on which “the sun never sets.” It rapidly grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the history of the world and brought us goods such as potatoes, chocolate, and chewing gum.
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This two-volume book—1605 and 1618—told a colorful tale of a hidalgo, or gentleman, who reads so many tales of chivalry and knighthood that he becomes unable to tell reality from fiction. With his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, Don Quixote leaves reality behind and sets out to revive chivalry by doing battle with what he perceives as the ...
- The monarchy took most of it, and the rest was spread across lords and ladies.
- The Aztecs witnessed the smallpox epidemic's destruction personally, and this was described in the Florentine Codex. This is not a fabrication; ind...
- Who had? I think the Spanish had monarchy.
- She was initially enslaved. So, basically she was a victim. Still it is one of the controversial topic to discuss.
- Leaving native people alone would not satisfy the blood lust of the Conquistadores, or the gold fever that drew them to want to take whatever they...
- Some people view Malintzin as a traitor for helping Cortes conquer the Aztecs. This is a very controversial topic, though, so it depends on how you...
- Well, it didn't happen. So I'm not going to waste what little brainpower remains to an old man on it. A young person might, however, build a fantas...
- The lack of Gold and the Natives' sophistication.
- I've read that the reasons for Spanish conquest could be summed up with three words: "Gold, Glory, God." It would seem that the spread of religious...
Apr 26, 2024 · Arts & Culture. Bookshelf. ‘How the Spanish Empire Was Built’ Review: Imperial Engineering. The rule of Spain’s global domains required an extensive network of fortresses, canals,...
Oct 20, 2023 · The Spanish Empire: General Overview; By Stefan Rinke; General editor Wim Klooster, Clark University, Massachusetts; Book: The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions; Online publication: 20 October 2023; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108598248.004
