1. Span and New World Revision Spider Diagrams

2. Topic 1: Spain reaches the ‘New World’ c1490 - 1512
Religion and Ambitions
Spanish claims in the Caribbean
Effects of Spanish settlement
Spanish Exploration
Columbus’s other voyages and role as governor
Sponsoring Columbus
Spain develops an imperial policy
Columbus’s first voyage
Topic 1: Spain reaches the ‘New World’ c
Columbus returns to Spain
Conflict at Samana
San Salvador
La Navidad
Rivalry with Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
Impact of contact with the natives
Columbus reaches the New World

3. Topic 2: The Conquistadors, 1513 - 1528
The impact of Spain in the New World
Balboa and the Conquistadors
The start of an empire
Impact of Spanish control on the Aztecs
Cortes as governor of New Spain
Velazquez and Cuba
Magellan’s sea route to the Philippines
How does Cortes increase Spanish control?
Reasons for Cortes’ fall from power
Topic 2: The Conquistadors,
The Aztec empire
Montezuma and surrender
Defeat of the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan
Cortes’ expedition to Mexico
The conquest of Mexico
Massacre at Cholula

4. Topic 3: The Spanish Empire, c1528 – c1555
The impact of the New World on Spain
Pizarro and the conquest of the Incas
Pizarro’s 1st expedition
La Casa Contractacion
Pizarro’s 2nd expedition
Civil War and Small Pox on the Inca
Battle of Cajamarca
The slave trade
Impact of trade on Spain
Death of Atahuallpa
Governing the New World
Pizarro’s 3rd Expedition
Piracy
Revolt of the Inca
Topic 3: The Spanish Empire, c1528 – c1555
Discovery of silver
Bartolome de Las casas
Silver mining
The Encomienda system
New Laws
Le Paz
How was the empire governed?
Expansion of the Spanish Empire