FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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presidios
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peninsulares
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encomiendas
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conquistadors
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Detailed explanation-1: -North America In the early 1500s, Spain made a few attempts to explore Florida and the Gulf coast. Around 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon, conqueror of Puerto Rico, conducted the first reconnaissance of the area. In 1519 Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored and mapped the Gulf of Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -When the Spanish arrived in the Americas, there were two dominant empires there-the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire. Despite their advanced societies and cultures, the Spanish saw these Indigenous peoples as primitive, godless ‘savages’. They quickly set to work enslaving their people and devastating their cultures.
Detailed explanation-3: -Conquistadors. Soon after Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492, the Spanish began to hear stories of civilizations with immense riches. Hoping to claim this wealth and territory for Spain and themselves, conquistadors, or “conquerors, ” sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.