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Spanish colonization of the Americas

  • Spanish American wars of independenceIn 1767, the Spanish Crown expelled the Society of Jesus from its American territories. This action removed a powerful institution that had long served as a…
  • Puerto RicoIn 1493, Christopher Columbus arrived on the island he named San Juan Bautista. The Taíno people had already lived there for centuries before his arrival.
  • Spanish EmpireIn 1492, the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile completed a ten-year war to expel the last Muslim king from Granada.
  • Age of DiscoveryIn 1492, the joint rulers of Castile and Aragon conquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada. This military victory removed a source of African goods that had…
  • North CarolinaThe Hardaway Site in North Carolina dates back 10,000 years to the earliest evidence of human occupation. Before 200 AD, people built earthwork platform…
  • CubaCuba is an archipelago of 4,195 islands, cays and islets located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the convergence of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic…
  • Inca Garcilaso de la VegaGómez Suárez de Figueroa arrived in the world on the 12th of April 1539 within the city of Cuzco. His mother was Palla Chimpu Ocllo, a princess descended…