I. From Trading to Colonizing to Empire: The Emergence of New Spain
 

A. From Trading to Colonizing

1. Trading Missions

a. Portuguese in Africa, India and Southeast Asia
 
 
 

b. Columbus in the Caribbean, c. 1494-1504-(1519)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. Colonists and the Need for an Empire

a. economic motivations
 
 

b. imperial motivations
 
 
 
 
 

c. settlement timetable
 

1. Hispaniola: 1492-1509
 
 

2. Puerto Rico: 1508, inhabitants rapidly enslaved
 

3. Bahamas: c. 1508, completely depopulated by 1513
 

4. Tierre Firme (~Panama): c. 1509
 

5. Jamaica, c. 1509
 

6. Cuba: 1511

B.  The European Expansion onto the Mainland

1. Cortes and the Aztecs of Mexico

a. chronology
 

b. reasons for Cortes' success

 
 
 
 
 
 

c. settlement timetable
 
 

2. Fall of the Inca

a.  Inca Civil War 1527-1532 & Other Problems
 
 
 
 
 

b.  Francisco Pizarro
 
 
 
 

c. settlement timetable
 
 

3.  Spanish in Andes
 
 





Key Terms:
Christopher Columbus
trading post empire
 repartimientos
 encomiendas
Hispaniola
1503, Casa de Contratacion
Audiencia est. 1511
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484-1566)
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547)
Aztecs
Mochtezuma (r. 1502-1520)
Inca
Huayna Capac (r. 1493-1525)
Francisco Pizarro (1470-1541)
Huáscar (r. 1525-[1532])
 Atahualpa (d. 1533)

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