What Is Columbus True Nature

Before the English ventured to Roanoke Europeans explored and settled the New World. The Spanish were the most successful in settling the New World. They conquered most of Central and South America. Their main objective was to convert all of the Indians to Christianity. “Spain’s claim to posses the Americas was based on discovery, conquest, and settlement, but even more important, it was founded on the sacred enterprise of extending the Catholic faith to (in Spanish eyes) “barbarous” native peoples” (Horn 12).

The imperial goals of the British, French, and Spanish in North America between 1580 and 1763 were similar in that all three European states sought to capture the wealth and commerce offered by the New World and in that they all used imperialism as a means of increasing the authority, territory, and influence of their state; however, the British, French, and Spanish imperialistic goals differed in that Britain's religious goals were those regarding asylum, while the French and Spanish sought to gain converts; moreover, the relationships the British, French, and Spanish wanted to form with the natives differed drastically. These goals continued to be a main focus of the British, French, and Spanish imperial efforts from 1580 to 1763. All three European powers sought to capture the wealth and commerce of the New World--namely, they sought to take advantage of the abundance of raw materials and the market for trade offered by North America--which caused economic and political tensions between the three states; therefore, the goal of capturing the wealth offered by the New World was the most significant goal and forged the relationships and tensions between the British, French, and Spanish in both North America and Europe.

During the exploration of the New World Portugal, France, and Spain had one thing in common to search for new resources such as sugar, spices, and gold. The European arrival in the Americas set a new era off known as the Columbian Exchange which changed the America’s forever. Native Americans introduced the Europeans to several new crops such as corn, squash, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes. Portugal set off for a search for sea route to Asia, while in competition with Spain who was also seeking an active root to Asia as well. The French exploration occurred later after the “New World” was found, and their target was to find a Northwest Passage where they hoped for a route through North America to the pacific.

During the sixteenth century Spain had control over land in the Caribbeans and America that was ten times the size of Spain. One of the most famous conquerors was a man by the name of Cortes. His first target was the Aztec Empire one of the richest empires in America. After a very bloody battle Cortes successfully conquered the empire “converting” its people to Christianity and taking their gold. From this Cortes became on of the richest men in the world. This event inspired many others to do the same with many choosing the life of a conquistador to find their riches in the new world. The amount of conquistadors started to make Spain worry if they were to try and rule New Spain and that they were killing more Indians instead of converting

The Americas were colonized rapidly upon their discovery in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. England seized territory along the eastern coast of North America, land soon to be referred to as the New England and Chesapeake colonies. Settlers to the New England and Chesapeake colonies were of the same country but motivated to travel to North America for vastly different social and economic reasons.

In a time when European countries were prompted to explore the New World, two countries in particular had a desire to control not only Europe, but the world. The Age of Exploration occurred between the fifteenth and seventh century and led to the discovery of the Americas, which was called the New World at the time. During this time, countries such as Spain and England had citizens travel to the New World for multiple reasons yet had both similarities and differences in both of the country's new colonies. It was in this context that the Spanish and British colonies in the New World were both dramatically alike and different by the differences in the colonies’ religious practices, the similarity of the harsh treatment of Indigenous people through

The greed for gold and the race for El Dorado were the main inducements of the Spaniards who, at the peril of their lives, crossed the ocean in unfit vessels in a mad pursuit after the gold and all other precious property of the Indians” (Peace 479). The royal rulers of Spain made it a rule that nothing would jeopardize their ability to rob the land from the native people of Latin America. The missionary process, “had to be encouraged, but the missionaries could not be permitted to dominate the colony at the cost of royal rule” (Gibson 76). The European governments established missionaries to cleanse their minds of any guilt aroused by the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children. When European “ships arrived in the 16th century to colonize the land and exploit its natural resources, they killed indigenous people and brought black slaves from Africa. Millions of indigenous people were slain and their cultures completely destroyed by the process of colonization” (Ribero). The overall devastations caused by the Christianization of the native inhabitants created a blend of cultures within the indigenous civilizations which gradually isolated old native ways into a small population of oppressed people. The Christianized people became a symbol of loyalty to the European powers and were left alone simply on their religious status. This long term mission of total religious replacement caused very strong and advanced

The Spanish were motivated to conquer and explore external lands in the West by riches. After the muslim religion had quickly spread not just in Asia and Africa, but in Europe too, the crusades began. The crusades set to reconquer holy Christian lands, including in Asia, which exposed the Europeans to expensive spices and other valuable goods. Furthermore, when Columbus landed in the Americas, although he thought he was in India, he states in his journal that his main priority was to find gold and/or other riches. The Spanish, as well as many other Europeans, believed there was gold and the spices found in Asia, in the Americas. With this belief in mind, the Spanish imprisoned the Taínos so the Indians would tell them where these riches could

From 1689 to 1763, almost 200 years after Columbus’ discovery of the New World, several European nations fought to acquire their share of America’s wealth. The Spanish, leaders in the exploration of the New World, were the first to colonize the Americas. In 1494, two years after Columbus’ expeditions, the Treaty of Tordesillas was ratified by the Pope. This treaty split the New World between Portugal and Spain. By the mid 1500s, Spain had gained control of much of western South America, Central America, and Southern North America. Portugal claimed lands in modern day Canada and Brazil. It wasn’t long before other European nations began to dispute the Treaty of Tordesillas. England and France both tried to found colonies during the 1500s but failed pitifully. In the 1600s, France, England, and the Dutch Republic were finally able to successfully established colonies in the Americas. Unfortunately for Spain, they would not be able to control the expansion of the English and French into North America. England would soon become the dominant shareholder of North America due to their objectives when coming to the New World, their victory in Queen Anne’s War, and their victory in the Seven Years’ War.

These five nations started growing out of their separate homelands as ahead of schedule as the late fifteenth century, and kept on asserting area and set up states as late as the mid seventeenth century. These nations had diverse thought processes and techniques for colonization and in addition distinctive associations with the Amerindians. Colonization of the Americas was in 1492 when the Spanish initially arrived in the west non mainstream players. Not long after that they started investigating and colonizing the fundamental area present day United States. The Spanish had three thought processes in needing to colonize that Americas: gold, God, and grandness. They likewise had rather effectives methods for doing this. These settlers had a few methods for colonizing the Americas. Migrants either set up vast domains, bringing in sheep, steers, and other live stock; or set up substantial sugar and tobacco ranches, or set up mining organizations. These Spanish states were the model of the homeland profiting from its settlements. One portion of all gold and silver backpedaled to Spain, and Spain debilitated the states from beginning their own particular businesses, this made Spanish states depend on the imports. After Christopher Colombus "found" the Americas in 1492, he was made legitimate pioneer of the new ranges. These triumphs were soon trailed by the colonization of the bigger piece of South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, Mexico and a great part of the United States of America

The explorer Christopher Columbus, who was supported and sponsored by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, started the expansion of the Spanish Empire into the New World or the Americas; this was carried on by their successors Charles V and Philip II. The Spanish Empire continued to expand into new territories between 1492-1892; their accomplishments were the conquest of territories within Central America, the Caribbean islands, Mexico, North America and the Western half of South America. The motivation for the colonial expansion was for various reasons associated with religion, economic and political. The main religious reason is the quest to spread the ‘true faith’ through indigenous conversions to the Catholic faith. There were economic reasons such as discovering sources of natural resources and precious metals. There were political reasons such as competing with their rivals the Portuguese

Exploratory expeditions to the New World quickly led to colonial settlements, as the major European countries vied with each other for a portion of the western hemisphere’s riches. »full text

With the New World finally accessible in the year 1492, opportunities opened for Europeans. The English, the French, and the Spanish all had goals which made the clashing of these three countries with the Indians a likely outcome. Men from all three of these countries were sent to explore the New World. The Indians reacted differently to each of the different goals and styles of conquest. Not only that, but they had very different views of religion and different thoughts on slavery. The one desire they all shared was their endless greed. The exploration of the New World began in the 1400s with Christopher Columbus, who explored this new land of his own desire. His exploration began in Mexico in search of gold. Following roughly half a century after, the French began their colonization in Canada in hopes of engaging in peaceful trade with the Indians. By the early 1600s, the English finally began their conquest in the New World. They were at first reliant on the Indians, but later shifted gears in attempts to seize Indian land by removing them. When the colonists, the English, French, and Spanish, first came to the New World, the Indians greeted them with peaceful and friendly motives, but once they engaged more with the colonists their tactics changed. The English colonists hunger for land forced the use of violence and tariffs. As for the French, they realized they needed the Indians assistance in trade and for protection. This caused for stronger relations among the French

When the Spanish first discovered the new world, the first thought to mind was to conquer it. Convinced that the people of the America were not civilized, they set about destroying much of what they found in this new land (Walbert, n/d). In time, the Spanish began building colonies starting by dividing the Americans into two parts named New Spain and Peru. The Spanish then built new roads that helped transport goods and people across the Empire; these roads also helped the Spanish control soldiers moving them from one place to another (Teacher sites, n/d). The Spanish also transferred germs and disease into the Americas during the Columbia Exchange, killing over twenty million Native Americans; who they previously treated horribly as slaves to do their deeds and build their new world. Along with the Colombia Exchange, the Spanish were able to use the land they stole to grow crops, goods, and other necessities for a new proud land (Teacher sites, n/d).

In all of history, there have been few situations that could affect a majority of the world at once. Through a series of events, one of these situations may be the discovery of the New World. This so-called discovery of the Americas had enriching effects for Europe, and catastrophic results for Indigenous Americans. While those from the Old World acquired wealth and curiosity, those in the New World were being conquered and forced into submission while dying of disease and losing crops. Those who prospered only reigned by stepping on the heads of the unknowing.