Because they were looking for a shorter/better route to the Indies; thus the native Americans were called: Red Indians
My original question was: where did horses first came to America not why. The answer is: They came from Spain in the 1500's, brought in by the Spaniards, not by themselves.
Who reintroduced the horse to the americas around A.D. 1500
Disease brought by the Spaniards such as small pox. But all of the Indians didn't die. Three to four million survived the Spanish invasion, and today, Mexico still has the largest indigenous population in all of the Americas.
The majority of slaves brought to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Brazil
Pilgrims traveled by land
12,000,000 Africans were brought to the Americas. Nearly 95% of them went to the Spanish colonies in Latin America and the remainder to the United States.
Introduction of the horse by the Spaniards
Introduction of the horse by the Spaniards
Spain and Portugal started colonizing the Americas around 1500.
It began in the 1500's
Because they wanted something
Spain