The Complete Idiot's Guide to World History by Timothy C. Hall MA

Author:Timothy C. Hall, MA
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.

The Spanish Empire

According to the Treaty of Tordesillas, the New World that explorers were discoveringbelonged to Spain, so Spain had an instant empire. As far as Europeans were concerned, an empire was something to control and exploit for the benefit of the mother country. So Spain sent men called conquistadors to subdue or conquer the natives of their empire, bringing with them weapons that the native Americans had not seen: muskets, horses, and, most devastatingly, infectious diseases.

Cortés and Pizarro

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