In Central America, the conquistadors, along with some rival native tribes, annihilated the Aztecs, enslaved them, and proceeded onto systematically destroying the other local Native Americans. The conquistadors proceed to take all of Central America, taking the Indian population in Mexico from 20 million to 2 million in less than a century. All of this can be summed up in one word, genocide. The Conquistadors wiped out a people, and a culture. These are the actions that make these hardy adventurers look like villains.
By the 1600s, Spain, England, and France were all struggling to establish footholds in the newly discovered American continent. Spain achieved initial success when the Spanish conquistadors plundered the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan empires in South America. The French were also successful in the New World, when they established trading outposts along the Saint Lawrence river and traded with the Native Americans for precious animal furs. The English began their colonization efforts in the 1580s when they established their first permanent colonies at Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. The Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth colonies can all be compared on the basis of the motivation for settling, economic conditions, race relations, problems, and
GKE1 Task 3 GKE1 Task 3 (A) The colonization of North America began in the late 1600’s. England, France and Spain began sending citizens to the “New World” in hopes of establishing new territories. The purpose of these new territories was to gain land for each countries expansion and to increase trade with new found resources. They also intended to increase political and private wealth. There were others who wished to flee religious persecution.
Southwest Settlements vs. New England The Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the English colonies in New England of the seventeenth century can be contrasted in primarily two ways, politically and economically. First, their politics were based off of two entirely different ruling classes and systems of government. Second, both settlements employed different avenues of economic development. The Spanish settlements began with Cortes and others conquering the Native Americans of the Southwestern North America area. After exterminating a large portion of the Native American population, the Spanish colonists had begun to intermediate into the Native American hereditary.
attacks and revolts broke out b. Moctezuma was killed (by whom?) c. the Spanish were forced to flee 4. when the Spanish returned: (explain) 5. Cortes conquered the Aztecs and became one of the richest men in the world J. The Spanish continued colonizing North America, establishing many cities that are still round today K. Balboa’s discovery of the Pacific (from America) triggered a rush of non-Spanish speaking explorers looking for the Northwest Passage 1. importance of finding the Northwest Passage: (explain) 2. while Spain was establishing colonies in southern North America, England and France were exploring the northern parts (current day United States and Canada) L. England will ultimately challenge Spain for the “rights to the sea” 1. Sir Francis Drake was an English “sea dog” (pirate) who raided Spanish ships returning with valuables 2.
(Textbook) religious balance of power for decades as Protestants fought Catholics seesawed.After Ireland joined the religious war, the English explorers set out to establish colonies in the New World. These colonies reaching religious freedom was their last hope. The similarities between the Spanish and English explorers was their relationship with the Native Americans. Spanish is brutal, and find treasure and the country and the people were obsessed by the idea of winning their habitat. Most of the men, the club 160000 Spaniards subjugated millions of Indians.The biggest problem was the Spaniards their thirst for gold and treasure.An Aztec "he mightily for gold; thirsted that can be quoted in saying they stuffed themselves with it, they are hungry for
By 3,000 BCE, they learned to cultivate plants. The population of North America hit 1,000,000. Different cultures developed in different regions in the Americas. Slavery had been a part of European and African history for a long time. Between 1450 and 1750, new trade patterns were set up.
Early Explorers U.S. History to 1877 American Military University Early Explorers The eastern seaboard was originally stumbled upon by the Europeans in 1524. The North American continent developed into part of the Atlantic world. Christopher Columbus, the Spanish occupation and migration of the Americas began his expedition in the Western Hemisphere. Even though the Vikings voyaged to North America more than 900 years ago, it was Christopher Columbus' decent good fortune in 1492 that whisked Europe into a rage. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, the Spanish Monarchs whom subsidized Columbus' discovery, were the earliest to comprehend the potential prosperity of the New World. The British colonized the New World in the 1580s.
EXPANSIONISM Gail Ridge Professor Stuart Collins 20th Century American History-1 August 2, 2015 EXPANSIONISM The decade of the 1890s saw several factors converge that account for America’s desire to pursue an imperial policy. In the years following the civil war the economy of the United States expanded rapidly. Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts boasted that Americans had a record of conquest, colonization, and territorial expansion unequalled by any people in the nineteenth century. Lodge urged the country to build an overseas empire, emulating the European model of imperialism. Exploiting the nation and people for the benefit of an imperial power either directly through military occupation
Colonial expansion under the crown of Castile was initiated by the Spanish conquistadores and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries. The motivations for colonial expansion were trade and the spread of the Catholic faith through indigenous conversions. Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus and continuing for over four centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across most of present day Central America, the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California's Pacific Coast regions of the United States. In the early 19th century the revolutionary movements resulted in the independence of most Spanish colonies in America, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico, given up in 1898 following the Spanish-American War, together with Guam and the Philippines in the Pacific. Spain's loss of these last territories politically ended Spanish colonization in America.