The Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa 1475-1519 explored Central America and discovered the Pacific Ocean.He was the first Spanish explorer to gain a permanent foothold on the American mainland.Source: Answers.com
De Aviles was likely eager to destroy Fort Caroline to eliminate a French threat to Spanish territorial claims in Florida and to assert Spanish dominance in the region. The fort, established by the French, represented a challenge to Spanish authority and interests in North America. By destroying it, de Aviles aimed to secure Spanish control and prevent rival European powers from establishing a foothold in the area.
A Spanish province in Latin America was called a viceroyalty.
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spanish people that traveled to America as an explorer and conquer of the 16th century
Protestantism did gain a foothold in the early Americas. The vast majority of the English settlers in America were protestants. The French and the Spanish were Roman Catholics but they were few.
Not really. Buddhism has yet to make a firm foothold in much of Africa.
The Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa 1475-1519 explored Central America and discovered the Pacific Ocean.He was the first Spanish explorer to gain a permanent foothold on the American mainland.Source: Answers.com
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No. The Spanish monarchy has always been Catholic. Protestants in Spain were immediately targeted by the (already-existing) Spanish Inquisition and tortured. This prevented Protestantism from ever gaining a foothold in Iberia.
North America in Spanish is: Norte America.
I used a foothold to climb the mountain.
James Monroe wanted to keep the Europeans out of Latin America so that no one would have a foothold to attack the US.
Religious warfare b/w catholics and Protestants
The Spanish were creating colonies in North America and the English needed a foothold there . Jamestown was only suppose to be an investment for bringing home gold and not the settlement it became. So, she saw a way to make money for the crown, bother the Spanish, and stop them from colonizing North America entirely. Recent historical research on Jamestown has shown there was a Spanish spy among the 104 men when they landed in 1607.
We acquired the Caribbean Islands, and it gave us a foothold into southeast Asia, notably the Philippines and Indonesia.