USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Domesticated cattle were introduced to the Caribbean in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, and between 1493 and 1512, Spanish colonists brought additional cattle in subsequent expeditions (12). Spanish colonists rapidly transported these cattle throughout southern North America and northern South America.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cows provided milk and beef to settlers, and mules were able to move heavy loads or plow fields much faster than a man alone could. Both of these services that cows and mules offered, were deeply needed by these new settlers. Cows and mules were transported from the Old World into the New World.

Detailed explanation-3: -As they traveled to the Caribbean and then across North and South America, cattle introduced by Spanish conquerors aided European expansion by occupying spaces inhospitable to colonists, destroying native environments, supporting extractive activities, and transforming relations of property, often in advance of empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Criollo cattle were first brought to the New World with Christopher Columbus, with his second expedition in 1493. Hardy and durable, these cattle came from the desert country of Andalusia, in southern Spain.