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7 Φεβ 2024 · In this gallery of seven maps, we examine the vast overseas territories of the Spanish Empire from the late 15th century to the 19th century. The empire reached its height during the Age of Exploration and included regions in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
Education was at the heart of European efforts to colonize America. Whether Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, or English, colonists from the Old World found success only as they adapted familiar ways of life and their own expectations to the peoples, geography, and natural resources they found in this strange New World across the Atlantic Ocean.
The long colonial period in Spanish America resulted in a mixing of indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans that were classified by race and hierarchically ranked, which created a markedly different society than the European colonies of North America.
4 ημέρες πριν · Built in the 1630s, in the middle of the Thirty Years’ War, at a time when Spain’s military fortunes were beginning to decline, it was designed to reaffirm the greatness of the Spanish monarchy.
1 Δεκ 2010 · The essays included in Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800, exemplify these qualities, represent Elliott's wide-ranging intellectual interests, and, once again, demonstrate to new generations of historians the rewards that come from creative, thoughtful and thorough research.
13 Ιουν 2022 · Colonial Spain had a highly-centralised and hierarchical form of government, where different levels and branches balanced out power so that no single institution or individual could challenge the interests of the Spanish Crown.
Overview. Beginning in 1492 with the first voyage of Christopher Columbus (1451?-1506), Spanish explorers and conquistadors built a colonial empire that turned Spain into one of the great European powers.
