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Spanish Claim a New Empire
Conquistadors explored Caribbean region and Mexico and S. America• Cortes
• Conquered the Aztec
• New Spain• Colony w/ Mexico City as capital
The Americans, p. 37
Spanish Pattern of Conquest Live among conquered people and impose
Spanish culture upon them• Spanish settlers
• Peninsulares
• Mestizo• Mixed Spanish and Native American
Oppression of Native peoples• Encomienda
• Natives farmed, ranched, or mined for Spanish landowners
• Abolished in 1542• Who works?
Conquistadors
Juan Ponce de Leon• 1513 names Florida
• Spanish explore for gold
• Interested in keeping French pirates out
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado• Explored southwest 1540-42
• Later Spaniards • Explore for precious metals
• Spread Catholicism
• New Mexico-Spain’s northern holdings
• Santa Fe-capital
Resistance
New Mexico• Spanish destroyed sacred objects from local
communities• Forced natives to pay tribute
Pope • Pueblo religious leader
• Punished for “witchcraft”
• Led an uprising against the Spanish• Native Americans controlled Southwest for 14 yrs