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Spain builds an American Empire - Coggle Diagram
Spain builds an American Empire
Christopher Columbus (A sailer captain) finds America (specifically islands in the Caribbean)
CC lands and trades with the people from the tribe of Taino. Marking how they accept anything.
Spanish Monarchs fund more trips, sending with him people to colonize it.
Ferdinand Magellan convinces the king to fund a trip around South America
Ferdinands dies, and the last of his crew, a group of 18 men and 1 ship become the first to sail around the world.
Hernando Cortés lands in Mexico, colonizing mainland South America
Colony: A peice of land controlld by another nation
Spanish become the first to inhabit America, shaping its culture
Some of Cortés's men where killed by the some Aztecs, leading to a war between the Aztecs's arrows and the spaniards muskets.
Many Native Americans where killed to the diseases the Spaniard's brought with them such as smallpox and measles
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incan Empire by ambushing their army, kidnapping their leader and killing him and took the capitol.
This happened in 1532
Atahualpa: the leader of the Incan Empire
Conquisador: Conquerer
Mestizo: A breed of spanish and Native americans
Amerigo vespucci landed in america and was the one to tell the spanish monarchy that it was a continent, not. acountry
Priests are sendt to explore the north america
Portugese colonise modern-day Brazil
Started his voyage from spain 1492
