Encounter

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Encounter Conquest
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Timeline

• 1492. Spanish conquest of Granada expulsion of
  Jews from Spain Columbus's first voyage to
  America.
• 1493. Columbus's second voyage settlement of
  Hispaniola.
• 1494. Treaty of Tordesillas Castile and Portugal
  partition between them the exploration and
  exploitation of the world (Portugal, east of c.50
  degrees west Castile, west of that meridian).
• 1496. Foundation of Santo Domingo, as capital of
  Hispaniola.
• 1497-9. First Portuguese voyage to and from India
  around south of Africa, led by Vasco da Gama.
• 1498. Columbus's third voyage first certain
  European sighting of a South American coast.
• 1500s (i.e. 16th century) century of military
  conquest in Spanish America, followed by complex
  process of domination of American lands and
  peoples (tools of domination include bureaucratic
  administration, Christian evangelization, Spanish
  (and Portuguese) exploration and mapping of the
  Americas, organization of native labor,
  imposition of taxes on native people). Other
  important processes and trends in 1500s
  beginning of race mixture, great decline of
  native populations (up to 90percent, mainly
  because of introduced disease), beginning of
  imports of African slaves.
• Source http//faculty.smu.edu/bakewell/BAKEWELL/
  chronology.html

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Spanish and Portuguese Colonization of the
Americas

• Brazil and the semisedentary Tupi
• Spain and the sedentary Incans and Aztecs

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