FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Spain wanted to move their center of power from Europe to New Spain.
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Spain wanted full claim to the land and resources available in New Spain.
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Spain wanted to share responsibility for colonies with other European nations.
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Spain wanted to spread Christianity and improve the lives of American Indians.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first would be to convert natives to Christianity. The second would be to pacify the areas for colonial purposes. A third objective was to acculturate the natives to Spanish cultural norms so that they could move from mission status to parish status as full members of the congregation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Spain sent priests to New Spain to convert the indigenous population to Christianity. Spain was a staunch Roman Catholic country in the sixteenth century and it played a significant role in defeating Muslim populations in Europe in the fifteenth century.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1493, during his second voyage, Columbus founded Isabela, the first permanent Spanish settlement in the New World, on Hispaniola. After finding gold in recoverable quantities nearby, the Spanish quickly overran the island and spread to Puerto Rico in 1508, to Jamaica in 1509, and to Cuba in 1511.
Detailed explanation-5: -Beginning in the 1680s, the Spanish initiated a series of expeditions, or entradas, into Texas to combat French intrusions into the region (West 1905: 200).