Topic: Assessing the results of the Spanish Conquest

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Topic Assessing the results of the Spanish
Conquest
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Spain and the Conquistadors

• Columbus discovery impacts all of Europe
  Americas (Columbian Exchange)
• Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
• Spanish explorers and conquerors

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Forging the Spanish Empire

• 1532 Pizarro seizes Peru
• Gold boom in Europe
• 1521 Cortes takes Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital)
• Spain now held
• South and Central America
• Florida, Carolinas
• Cuba, Philippines

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Impact on Native Americans

• Positive (?) Consequences

• Negative Consequences

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Challenges to Spanish Hegemony

• Other Europeans pushed into North America
• Britain vs. Spain
• Why?
• The Black Legend
• Destruction of Spanish Armada in 1588
• Popes Rebellion (1680- Santa Fe)
• Spain begins to lose power (Slow decline)

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Conclusion

• Pick one word that you feel best describes the
  Spanish Conquest of the New World. Explain why
  you chose this word in 2-3 sentences.