1. Spain- “Let me get in on that action”
Expelled the “infidels”
Ready to show of power, and take out rival Portuguese.
Portugal controls Africa, thus Spain must find new route to the Indies.

2. Christopher Columbus Not the first, certainly not the last.
One of most successful failures in history
4 continents now connected- globalization has begun

3. The Columbian Exchange
Old World meets the “New World”
1493- Columbus comes back to Haiti and the Dominica Republic, 17 ships, like Noah’s ark.

5. Maybe we can share…?
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494-

6. Spain’s Colonization of Americas
Conquistadors- conquerors
3 Reasons- God, Gold, Glory
1513- Vasco Nunez Balboa- discovers pacific ocean
1513 and Juan Ponce De Leon explores Florida
Francisco Coronado- as far east as Kansas
Hernado de Soto Finds Miss. River

7. Spain’s Colonization of Americas
Francisco Pizzarro- destroys Inca empire- 1532
Surge in precious metals, standards of living increases, and the capitalism and beginning to form.

8. Spanish Colonization of Americas
Spanish- Accept our religion or die.
Enconmieda- allows government to give Indians to certain colonists who promise to christianize them.

10. The Conquest of Mexico 1519- Hernan Cortes- 16 horses- 500 men
Aztec Chief Montezuma thinks Cortes is the god Quetzalcoatl- allows Cortes to enter the city unharmed, even gives him gifts