Spanish america

1500s through the 1800s, the Spanish had controlled large areas of the modern-day Southwest and West Coast of the United States. The Spanish had controlled, enslaved and killed many Native Americans, Indians and Africans and in Spain, resulting in a cultural blending and a rise to a new social structure. Between 1810 and 1826, the Creoles led the revolution across Latin America due to resentment over the Spanish government’s massive control over North and South America, especially against the minority

did not know anything about the Spanish conquest of America because I am not Mexican and nobody tough me anything. I think it’s important for us to learn about history because it reflect who we are today. Yes, there are a lot of new things that I learned after reading the chapters in Fuentes and Brewer and viewing The Mission. Racial colonialism was the most interesting that I learned because they were determined their races by different skin color, which Spanish and Portuguese created a caste system

contact ended poorly for the most part (Shultz, 2014). According to Kevin Shultz (2014), the Spanish was the first to settle early colonization in North America. Unfortunately, contact with the Spanish reduced the population by twenty percent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries due to exposure to diseases. Shultz (2014) also states that the native people were abused brutally by the Spanish. The Spanish forced the natives into slavery to mine for gold. The Spanish's dealings with the native people

Spanish America was probably one of the best case studies to look at social construction of race and gender because, in a complicated post contact-world, attempts to define new categories for people which were so blatant. Latin American race and gender essentially came down to class and the more money one had and the whiter they were the better off they were. The early conquistadors were mainly men along with priests and settlers which they would all eventually crave women except for the priests

the year of 1492, the Spanish invaded the Americas, which had a contrary effect on the indigenous people who were already settled there. Invasion is the act of entering a country while bringing it down under domination or control, especially by conquest. By this definition, the Spanish invaded the Americas because they dominated and controlled the religion, education, economy and governance of the indigenous Americans. The Spanish cannot be considered to have settled the Americas, because the act of

Because the Indians and Spanish lived in different areas in Latin America, the Indian culture and society did not change significantly. Or did there society change? The Spanish colonizers had a huge influence on the indigenous peoples of Mexico and Peru’s, culture, language, traditions, religion, even on their native food. One can say that this came into being shortly after Columbus discovered the New World. The Spanish conquistadors, who sailed with Columbus to the New World, were the first to

claimed that approximately 37.6 million people living in the United States spoke Spanish in their homes(Gonzalez-Barrera and Lopez). While that may not seem like much keep in my mind the fact that, this number reflects around 10% of the total American population; and the number of Spanish speakers coming to this country is ever-increasing. All of this being said some people, in the government or elsewhere, would see the Spanish language marginalized or even totally forgotten in our national identity. I’m

The Bourbon Reforms in Spanish America and the Pombaline Reforms in Brazil were both motivated by the European state’s interest in increasing defense, centralizing authority, and expanding economic benefits of the their Latin American colonies. The Bourbon Reforms began under Philip V, the first Bourbon King of Spain, and were initially concerned with proper and efficient governing of the Spanish Colonies in America. These early reforming projects primarily focused on issues of administration and

Spain’s original goal was to come to Latin America to create wealth and spread Christianity to the people. What happened instead was 350 years of Spanish rule that resulted in social, political, and economic changes for the native people. The changes were both negative and positive. Colonization helped the countries become unified under one language and religion. However, Spanish colonization had a negative impact by creating more poverty and discrimination toward the native people. The native people

encomienda system was instituted as a source of labor for Spanish settlers in the Americas. This system, granted by Queen Isabella of Spain, gave her Spanish colonists in the New World the right to use Native Americans as laborers. The holders of the encomienda were required by the Spanish government to protect their Native American laborers, but this was not strictly followed and many Spanish landowners completely ignored this. The encomienda gave Spanish settlers a source of free labor to plant crops and