The resources found through the region. Even today, 500 years after its discovery by Europeans, Latin America is one of the regions with most Natural Resources, including oil in Mexico and Ecuador, copper in Chile, grasslands for livestock rising in Argentina or precious gems (emeralds) in Colombia.
Spanish colonization of the Americas was created in 1525.
Spanish colonization of the Americas ended in 1821.
Further European colonization of the Americas was prohibited.
I assume you're talking about colonization in the Americas. Christopher Columbus started it. But their were Vikings who went there too.
The Monroe Doctrine called for a stop to European colonization of the Americas.
1492 with Christopher Colombus
Colonization
It began in the 1500's
Archaic, formative, classic, postclassic
Atlantic Coast
Monroe Doctrine
Gold, Land, Religion