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Why did Ferdinand and Isabella sponsor Amerigo?

Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored Amerigo Vespucci primarily to enhance Spain's exploration and expansion efforts in the New World. They sought to gain access to new trade routes, resources, and territories that could strengthen their empire. Vespucci's voyages contributed valuable knowledge about the geography of the Americas, helping to establish Spain's presence and influence in the region. His accounts of the lands he encountered also helped to generate interest and support for further exploration.


Sapanish soldiers invaded an took lands from Indians?

Conquistadors were the Spanish soldiers that invaded and took lands from the Indians.


Who invaded and took lands from the Indians?

English and Spanish soldiers invaded and took lands from Indians.


Did the native Americans teach the spanish how to build with adobe?

Adobe is a Spanish word that comes from a Arabic word that comes from an ancient Eygptian word. The practice has been done around the world in many unrelated places for at least 4000 years. When the Spanish arrived in the Southwest the Native peoples already built with mud adobe and stone. They used baskets or handfuls or puddling to build the walls. The Spanish brought the idea of sundried brick making. Adobe in Spain goes back to the late Bronze Age and in the Americas it goes back several thousand years. The name and some of the techniques came to Spain with the Muslim rulers that came from North Africa and Arab lands in 711 CE.


How did Europeans view their arrival in the Americas?

Europeans saw the lands in the Americas as free for the taking. The Native Americans had a totally different view of land ownership than Europeans, which worked to their serious disadvantage.

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Which best describes the role of viceroys in Spain's Americn empire?

set prices for products going from the Americas to Spain


What nation did the Spanish control for centuries?

Spain controlled the Phillipines for centuries. Spain also controlled many of the Caribbean Islands and much of the Americas from the time the lands were discovered until the Spanish War of Succession, which weakend the country significantly.


What are three countries that claimed lands in the Americas?

France,Spain, and portugal.


How was the spanish exploration and the settlement of the Americas?

Spanish exploration of the Americas was marked by conquest, colonization, and exploitation of indigenous populations for resources. The Spanish established settlements and brought diseases that devastated native populations. The Spanish sought to expand their empire, spread Christianity, and extract wealth from the newly discovered lands.


What motivated 'Spain's' conquest?

for the gold of the Americas


Spanish explorers who claimed new colonies for Spain were called?

Conquistadors were Spanish explorers who claimed new territories in the Americas for Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. They sought to conquer and colonize these lands, often using force and violence against indigenous peoples.


What was Hernan Cortes purpose of exploration?

to find gold in America


What did the Spanish gain from The Treaty of Tordesillas?

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal. Spain gained control over most of the newly discovered lands in the Americas, while Portugal gained control over the eastern route to Asia and territories in Africa and Asia. The treaty helped Spain establish its dominance in the Americas during the age of exploration.


Which country had explorers who led expeditions into the lands of the incas and Aztecs in north and south Americas?

Spain


What lands in Americas made up the Spanish Empire known as new Spain?

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Treaty that proclaimed a Spanish title to lands in the Americas by dividing them with Portugal?

Treaty of Tordesillas


How did Spain run its American empire?

It dates from 1492 when a capable Mariner named Christopher Columbus sailed West to reach the East and discovered the Americas. Those islands and continents have had the influence of Spanish culture since then.