After Columbus Vs Spain

Spain’s initial contact with the Americas began when Christopher Columbus landed in Hispaniola (present day Haiti and Dominican Republic) and sparked a

After discovering America by Christopher Columbus, European started to fight over land. France and England were fighting over land in North America, and the reason for establishing the New France, at first was for fur trade.

The treaty was negotiated because João II didn’t like all the land the Spanish were getting; Ferdinand and Isabella feared the Portuguese and was busy with the New World. This was different from the “papal line” because this treaty divided the world into 2 hemispheres. The “papal line” was about 350 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands and beyond that discovered

Peter Mancall opens with Columbus, who received funding from the Spanish crown in order to explore the Americas. He claimed the new land he found for Spain, and his voyage represented the competition between European powers. These leading powers needed to stay ahead of each other, and had to be careful not to anger the Catholic Church. Europe was split into multiple provinces over effective “nation-states”, and everyone was competing with each other. Europeans also attempted to overtake Jerusalem in the thirteenth century, and were able to trade with Middle Easterners and raid other places on their way. In 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain took back Iberia, and in 1493 Pope Alexander VI gave Spain the Bull of Donation, allowing them to colonize the Americas. This led to the Treaty of Tordesillas, which split the world in half between Portugal and Spain, giving each side one of the halves. Conquistadors from Spain overran the Aztecs and Incas, and explored the southwest. They found gold and silver, but also destroyed ancient cultures in the process. France in the 1500s sent Jacques Cartier to explore; he went through the St.Lawrence Valley and took part of Canada for France. In 1608 Samuel Champlain founded Quebec. In 1609 Henry Hudson (English) failed to find the Northwest Passage, but sailed up a river, now named after him. The Dutch soon laid claim to the area and titled in New Netherland. England also searched for the Northwest Passage,

No European nation had ever attempted to administer a domain as substantial and far away as the Spanish realm in the New World. Indeed, some European states controlled regions that didn't outskirt each other, however 3,000 miles of sea isolated America from Europe. So Spain was compelled to ad lib. At first, Queen Isabella's give to Columbus made him "Chief of naval operations of the Ocean Sea" and leader of the considerable number of terrains he found. At the point when Isabella understood that Columbus had found a ton, she updated that announcement and the Crown started representing the New World. At initially, competitions between quarreling conquistadors made for a wild and wooly environment, yet by the center of the sixteenth century,

Columbus may have brought the Europeans that colonized the Americas over, but Columbus really brought over death to millions of men, women, and children. Bartolome de Las Casas, a settler of the New World, participated in killing natives. Only there is something different about him, his western views changed and he tried to advocate for the natives(FACT FILE: 8 Facts About Las Casas). Columbus and Las Casas’s views and descriptions of the natives have great distances, one believes that the natives are people to be used, while another believes the natives should be treated with their own rights as if they are Europeans.

Another major country from Europe was Britain who over time took control of the Eastern part in the Americas. The land did not just fall into their possession they had to fight for it. The land originally was in the possession of Spain. Then It

In the book They Came Before Columbus written by Ivan Van Sertima, chapter twelve, “Mystery of Mu-lan-pi”, there is a reoccurring theme of disproving the notion that Columbus brought over many different things and products from his expeditions to American to the Eastern parts of the world when in reality there is factual evidence that Africans made contact with America far before Columbus did. The author of this book, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, has his undergraduates degree in African languages and literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Van Sertima also worked as a journalist in Great Britain and did broadcasted to the Caribbean and Africa. With and extensive knowledge and work experience in African American Studies it is clear why he chose to wrote this book. The idea that Columbus was the first to bring things like maize from America is widely believed to be true but Van Setima saw that this was false and published They Came Before Columbus to show the facts and evidence that Columbus was not the first person to accomplish this. After writing this book Van Sertima went on to complete a master’s degree in African Studies at Rutgers University and even became a professor of African Studies at the same university. In this essay I will be going deeper into the theme and its relationship to African American history and discussing three other articles that can be related back to chapter twelve of They Came Before Columbus.

Before Cuba became a nation, Cuba was first a Spanish colony. In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, claimed Cuba as a colony of Spain after he was sent by the Spanish monarchy to find a route to Asia, specifically Southeast Asia. Columbus enlisted the help of the native people in Cuba, known as the Taino, to find consequential resources on the island for Spain. The Tainos’ willingness to aid Columbus caused the native people to become enslaved under Spanish rule. Despite the encouragement from Hatuey, a Taino leader who tried warning fellow Taino the horrors of Spanish subjugation, uprisings to remove the Spanish failed. In 1570’s, the economic success of the farming industry fueled Spain to import Africans to work as slaves.

In the United States, when a child is asked to think about Christopher Columbus, chances are the child will portray him as a courageous, heroic explorer who discovered America. However, when a child is asked about what they think of when they see an Indian, the child will most likely describe a half-naked human with a feather on his head. Any young American will unknowingly stereotype Indians as figures of the past. These cognitive constructs [stereotypes] are often created out of a kernel and then distorted beyond reality (Hoffmann, 1986). Without any doubt, these attributed characteristics are incorrect. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans regard Indians as “obstacles to white settlement.” However, historians, scientists, and researchers understand the fact that Indians were “one of the principle determinants of historical events.” So where does the tragic level of misinformed Americans come from?

The three essential thoughts that motivated the Spaniards’ that explored and conquered a portion of the New World are Gold, Glory, and God.

Europeans at the time of the colonization of America and I are alike: we don’t realize that there were millions of people in the “New World” before Columbus ever set foot there. While I have learned of the Aztecs and Incas, I always forget that they were there. What I normally remember as the beginning of history for the Americas is when the Europeans first set foot on American soil in order to escape the oppression of Great Britain, even though I know that Columbus was the one who discovered it.

In modern America, we often take for granted the natural world that surrounds us and the American culture which is built upon it. For many of us, we give little thought to the food sources that sustain and natural habitats that surround us because when viewed for what they are, most people assume that they have “simply existed” since the country was founded. However, the documentary ‘America Before Columbus’ provided this writer an extremely interesting record of how the America we know came to exist. In the documentary, one of the most interesting discussions centered on the fact that it was not merely the arrival of conquistadors and colonists that irrevocably changed the landscape of the Americas, but that it was also the coined term known as the “Columbian Exchange” that afforded these travelers the ability to proliferate so successfully. The basic definition of the Columbian exchange is one that defines the importation of European flora and fauna. It could also loosely represent other imports, both intended and unintended, such as tools, implements, and even disease. Armed with this definition, it takes little imagination to envision how differently the Americas might have developed had any significant amount of the native European flora, fauna, or other unintended import not been conveyed to the Americas through the Columbian Exchange. Beyond the arrival of explorers, settlers, and colonists to the New World, the breadth of what the Columbian Exchange represented to

Upon Christopher Columbus’ return from his first trip to the Americas, a debate broke out between the Spanish and Portuguese as to who possessed ownership of the new lands. In June of 1494, the issue was settled via the Treaty of Tordesillas. By the middle of the 18th century though, the dispute was raging once again. For more than a century, Portuguese in the Americas had been gradually pushing westward; in doing so, they encroached on territory theoretically belonging to Spain. This resulted in the countries engaging in consistent armed conflict. In hopes of settling the ongoing conflict, Spain and Portugal would sign a new treaty.

Until the late 1400's, Europeans did not know the existence of the two American continents ( North and South America ). To the European explorers, exploring the other side of the Atlantic was like exploring an entire different world, hence the name- the New World. In 1492, Christopher Columbus unknowingly discovered the new continent. His original motives for exploring was to find an easier route to Asia but instead, he discovered the New World. Thus; Spain, France and England began sending out conquistadors and explorers to the uncharted terrains of the new continent. Motives for the Spanish, French, and English explorers varied greatly, however, they were similar in some ways. The motives of the Spanish explorers were acquisition of