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Spanish Colonization of the Americas: Wealth, Power & Spread of Christianity

Explore the impact of Spanish colonization in the Americas, including conquests, settlements, labor systems, and the role of prominent figures like Christopher Columbus and Bartolome de las Casas. Understand the cultural clashes, economic influences, and religious motivations that shaped this era.

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Spanish Colonization of the Americas: Wealth, Power & Spread of Christianity

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  1. Spanish Colonization of the Americas

  2. Wealth, Power & Spread of Christianity

  3. Technology • Caravels • Lateen Sails • Astrolabe improvements • Compass

  4. Portuguese • Colonize the east primarily • Also the Canaries and Madeiras • Sugarcane – plantation economy • African Slave Trade • Later taken over by the Spanish

  5. Christopher Columbus – (1492 – 1504) • Thought world was smaller than most believed – He was wrong • Queen Isabella supported him • Took four voyages • Reason to believe he knew he reached the new world

  6. Treaty of Tordesillas - 1494

  7. Exploration • Aggressive explorers • Had to traverse jungles, deserts and mountains • Had few waterways to follow • Within a generation of Cortes, Spanish had fanned out through the continent. • Riches, lordship, fame and ambition lured conquistadores

  8. Hernan Cortes & Francisco Pizarro Conquers Aztecs – 1521 Established estates in New World Dies a wealthy man Conquers Incas - 1532

  9. Spanish Settlement • Towns become the core of Spanish dominion in the New World • Spanish estates located in towns (more civilized) • Families moved to New World from Spain • 8 year minimum commitments • Conquistadores controlled land in countryside • They wanted the Indians to remain on the land (unlike British) – vassals • Spanish preferred to colonize in densely populated areas

  10. Labor System - Encomienda • Work and taxes for • Protection and religion

  11. Bartolome de las Casas • Catholic Priest • Came to the Americas shortly after Columbus • Critic of the American conquest & encomienda system • Fought to preserve rights of Native Americans

  12. African Slavery • Used primarily on the islands of the Caribbean • Sugar, coffee, tobacco plantations • Native had died from disease

  13. Colonial Government under Crown Control • Conquistador autonomy concerned crown • Created two provinces: • In Mexico - New Spain, • In Peru - New Castile • Governed by a viceroy (Voice of the king) • Decisions on colonial management came from Spain

  14. Spanish in North America • Why did they not conquer periphery Indians (North America)?

  15. New Mexico Colony • Santa Fe (1608) was founded as a religious colony • In the wilderness • Little respect for Natives • Pueblo Indians were willing to add Christian beliefs

  16. Pope’s Rebellion - 1680 • Pueblo Indians resent the Spanish • infringing on Pueblo culture • Disrespectful • Making natives second class citizens • Pueblos attack New Mexico settlements • Kill priests & settlers • Burned settlements • Set Spanish back in that area

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