HIST 2055 Chapter : NOTES Exam 1
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Columbus discovered america: columbus background, goals, and voyages. 1492 marks the point where the muslims and the jews get thrown out of spain. Indians here so he did not discover america/ he invaded it: so why so much emphasis on columbus, give europeans the center, and why still important, somewhere between 1492 and 1519 europeans incorporate the western hemisphere. The whole perception of how they looked at the world is transformed. Its center: caribbean, mexico, peru"s: cortez goes into to mexico then they go into peru and conquer the incas empire. The spanish would cut off the top of the center of empire, replace them with. Invasion of florida was a failure for years: new mexico and the southeast, coronado goes into new mexico looking for wealth but he does not find a lot of gold or silver. They go in and try to convert these people into their culture and try to convince them to become christian.
