The Spanish and the New World

The Spanish and the new world
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The Spanish and the new world
Thesis statement: although the Spanish came to discover the New World much later than the Portuguese, their great wealth helped them form a very big foreign territory.
A significant person in the record of Spanish explorations was Christopher Columbus. After being abandoned by the Portuguese, he asked Queen Isabella of Spain to fund his team, which reached the Americas in 1492. He surveyed the coastline of Cuba and the northern shores of the nearby islands of Hispaniola. Columbus thought he had arrived in Asia so he sought in vain to find a way through the outer islands to the Asian mainland. In the course of his explorations, he came across major islands of the Caribbean, which he named the Indies, as well as Honduras in Central America. Other explorers discovered he had found other new boundaries (Vess, 2006). Other explorers, supported by their government, joined the trip to what European began to call the new world.
The Spanish army destroyed the most crowded islands and damaged the strongest empires of the New World, dispatched huge quantities of stolen goods back to the Old, gave way for other European empires to come and take control, leading to the death of local people. The arrival of Columbus in the Caribbean in 1492, led to more invasions. In 20 years, the islands of Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Cuba were controlled by the Spanish. The invasion of Mexico from 1519 and Guatemala, caused more looses to the larger population, and in some islands the population became instinct (Kiernan, Ben (2007).
Reasons for coming to the new world
Juan Ponce de Leon explored Puerto Rico after he heard that he could find gold there. He established the oldest settlement there, the city of Caparra. He later explored an island called Bimini after hearing its waters were rejuvenating to people. Balboa was the first European to discover the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He got the chance to see the Pacific after he was taken away as a stowaway on a voyage to a colony in Columbia. After their arrival, they formed a settlement. Later in 1513, Balboa was made governor of the colony. He went to search the riches of the south, and in 1513, he saw the Pacific Ocean (Spielvogel, 2009).
The new empires found were referred to as the New World, despite the fact that they had successful developments occupied by millions of people when the Europeans arrived. However, the Americans were new to th...