Spain



=Key People:=

Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Italy and he lived in Portugal and Spain. However, because of limited due to lack of money in the family didn’t give chances to Columbus to learn. ==

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He is a famous Spanish explorer and navigator. He’s most famous for making America known to the Europeans which in October 1492, he reached the Americas, where he explored the coastline of Cuba and the island of Hispaniola. He is also very famous for discovering that the earth was round, and there was no danger of falling off.

In 1506, May 20, Christopher Columbus dies at the Spanish court at Valladolid. Route of Exploration(Spain)->

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Ferdinand Magellan was born at Saborosa in Villa Real in 1480. He gets tutored very well at the court of Portugal.

He is also one of most famous known for Spanish explorer and Navigator. He was a Portuguese sea captain who led five Spanish ships and 251 men in the first voyage around the world.

On April 27, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan was killed when he took part in a battle between rival Filipino groups on the island of Mactan Ferdinand Magellan--> Magellan's Exploration>

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Hernán Cortés was born in 1485 in Medellin, Extremadura, Spain. He was well educated and he attended University of Salamanca.

He is very well known for Spanish conqueror and Explorer. He is famous as the conqueror of Mexico and the Aztec Empire. Cortés conquers the Aztec nation of 5 million with less than 1000 soldiers.

Cortés died on December 2, 1547 near Seville. Hernán Cortés --->

=Key Dates and Events:= 1492: Christopher Columbus voyage to America, the New World, was financed by the King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Christopher Columbus visits the Dominican Republic, which he names it Hispaniola (Little Spain).He also discovers Haiti and Jamaica. 1493: The island of Montserrat, in the Caribbean Sea, was named after the mountain by Christopher Columbus 1494: Spain and Portugal claimed the lands of the New World 1519: Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) founds Veracruz in Mexico. Cortes enters Tenochtitlan and captures Moctezuma II (Aka Montezuma ) in Mexico 1542: Spain invades Belize and conquest occurs 1545: The Spanish conquer Bolivia 1547: Cuba gets colonized by the Spanish

=Key Places:=

Peru
In 1531, Peru was discovered by Francisco Pizarro, a great Spanish Explorer. The main civilization in that area group was known as the “Inca”. It was thinly populated country; however, it has one of the world’s famous tourist attractions called Machu Picchu, a city in the mountains. With their creativity, Inca were a peaceful race and were susceptible to conquistador attack. However, they became under Spanish control.

Mexico
Mexico was discovered by Hernán Cortés in 1519. Mexico had plentiful or rich resources such as sugar, gold, silver, etc. Mexico became a literal and physical goldmine for the Spanish and people were forced to mine and work. It was also very easy for Spanish to harvest sugar and to provide easy profit and a valuable trade. However, because of Natives not being treated so well, they had unbelievably large amount of death from diseases, starvation and malnutrition. Mexico had a very negative result from their arrival. Within 100 years of so, the population were decreased into a million from 25 million. Mexico is also very famous for having lots of world's attractions such as Tulum and Chichen Itza, etc.

Florida
Florida was also discovered by Spain in 1513 by Juan Ponce de Leon. This is the country where Spain had positive results from their discovery and arrivals. Spanish got lots of foods, especially fruits and etc. Before leaving, they decided to bring seeds for orange and lemon trees and this is the main reason for North America having plentiful of orange and lemon trees.

=Effects and Their Motives:= Just like how all the motives for exploration being “God, Gold and Glory”, motives for Spanish exploration was also similar. Their motives were:

Wealth - gold, silver and spices


From explorers discoveries and conquered countries, Spain were able to succeed with getting large amounts of gold, silver, foods, spices, etc. For example, the discovery of Florida gave Spain lots of foods and plants and the discovery of Mexico made Spain obtain lots of rich resources such as gold, silver and sugars.

Power


Spain was able to have control or power over lots of countries by their explorations. For examples, by just Christopher Columbus, they were able to have power over several different countries and cities such as Haiti, Jamaica, South America, etc. and Spain also controlled Peru, Mexico and Florida.

Spreading the Catholic Religion


One of the main reasons for Spanish Exploration was to spread their Catholic Religion to other countries. For example, the important countries that they conquered mostly had Christians for their main religions such as Florida, Mexico and Peru. Florida’s has approximately 80% of Christians, Mexico has approximately 89% of Christians and almost all the people in Peru is Christians.

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