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Spain Builds an American Empire PIRE BUILDING The voyages Throughout the Americas, Christopher conquistador 9'Columbus prompted th~. Spanish culture, language, and Columbus Francisco of sh to estab...

Spain Builds an American Empire PIRE BUILDING The voyages Throughout the Americas, Christopher conquistador 9'Columbus prompted th~. Spanish culture, language, and Columbus Francisco of sh to establish colonies m descendants are the legacy of colony Pizarro spani. this period. the Amencas. Hernando Atahualpa Cort~s mestizo encomienda ,ieJred Above: SETTING THE STAGE Competition for wealth in Asia among European 11 Colored nations was fierce. This competition prompted a Genoese sea captain named qra,1g Christopher Columbus to make a daring voyage from Spain in 1492. Instead ~ colonrsts of sailing south around Africa and then east, Columbus sailed west across the ,,nd ng at Atlantic in search of an alternate trade route to Asia and its riches. Columbus ,c'.'1eS!own, never reached Asia. Instead, he stepped onto an island in the Caribbean. That W51i1a event would bring together the peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. 1"R) Le.:er from Q:ns:opher ColumJus The Voyages of Columbus to h!S son The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria sailed out of a Spanish port around dawn on Diego discuss- August 3, 1492. In a matter of months, Columbus's fleet would reach the shores "5 ~-2,·go of what Europeans saw as an astonishing new world. Use the graphic organizer V&iucc online to take notes First Encounters In the early hours of October 12, 1492, the long-awaited cry on major events in the came. A lookout aboard the Pinta caught sight of a shoreline in the distance. establishment of Spain's "Tierra! nerra!" he shouted. "Land! Land!" By dawn, Columbus and his crew empire in the Americas. were ashore. Thinking he had successfully reached the East Indies, Columbus called the surprised inhabitants who greeted him, /os indios. The term translated into "Indian," a word mistakenly applied to all the native peoples of the Americas. In his journal, Columbus recounted his first meeting with the native peoples: PRIMARY SOURCE 1 presented them with some red caps, and strings of glass beads to wear upon the neck. and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted, and became wonderfulJy attached to us. Afterwards they came swimming to the boats where we were, bringing parrots, balls of cotton thread, javelins, and many other _things which they exchanged for artides we gave them... in fad they accepted anything and gave what they had with the utmost good will. OtRISlOPHER COWMBUS. Journal of Columbus Columbus had miscalculated where he was. He had not reached the East Indies. Scholars believe he landed instead on an island in the Bahamas in the Caribbean ~ The natives there were not Indians, but _a group who ~ed themselv~s the aino. Nonetheless, Colwnbus claimed the island for Spam. He named it San Salvador, or "Holy Savior." The Atlantic World 119 ~ - - - rtHSifCte~:8'3'.~~~i;ici'!S~™l!i.- ttt.-.-a-- 1 - - - - - --~~-.2-r:a::a:~~~ff...;.