Timeline
1504 1513 1521 1540 1541
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Columbus’ Ponce de Leon * Cortez Coronado *Pizzarolast voyage discovered Aztecs explored SW Peru explored Florida (Mexico)
What is colonization?
• One country brings its own culture to another
country
• Why is Columbus significant to history?
• Began Spain’s colonization in the Americas
Primary Sources:
Created at the time in history “You and your people , . . .
entering with such speed
and fury into my country, . . .
As to strike terror into our
hearts.”
-Native American Chief
How?
Mestizos Encomienda System
Native Americans
1. Laborers on farms
and in mines
2. Forced conversion
to Christianity
Coronado
•Explored the Southwest
•Never found gold
•Found silver in Arizona
•Marcos de Niza = First person to see Arizona – Spanish conquistador