Missions And Haciendas: How Similar Were Explorations Of Different Regions

Spanish explore and colonized America for 3 reasons,1 to fine the economic reason 2 for the political reason 3 for the religious reason. The reason that the Spanish colonized was that so they could build there trading post routs and to expand their military control and to turn there native people to religious belief . They  followed there economic method to damage local industry restricted trade prohibited manufacturing and slowed town growth in order to create an economic environment where the Spanish manufacturing were at a huge advantages. The voyages of Christopher Columbus were sponsored by Spain failed to reach the forest east but lead a huge Spanish empire of silver from the Potosi mines to Spain financing. Both Spains political domination

The beginning of the Spanish Exploration begun in 1492 when Christopher Columbus set out on his first voyage with Spanish explores and conquistadors to conquer the Americas. The motives for the Spanish exploration was the three G’s gold, god and glory stated in source B. His objective was to not only to conquer the Americas but sail west until he reached Asia or The Indies, where the riches of gold and pearls awaited him and his men. Some of the difficulties connected to the exploration was the lack of knowledge of the oceans also the Spanish had beliefs that there were sea monsters lurking the deep but disease and starvation didn’t help the journey. Even more problems occurred such as wild natives, cannibals, reefs and shoals also storms,

The Spanish and English were entirely different in the way of collecting resources from the land. When Spain was colonizing the Americas, the Spaniards began pursuing gold and silver. For at this time, to be considered wealthy, a country had to own gold and silver. The Spanish, in order to gain bullion and increase social status amongst other European nations, had the indigenous people mine in order for Spain to accumulate wealth. And with the Roman Catholic Church sponsored the expedition, The Spanish would convert the natives, so the Catholic church could receive gold. Once the mines started producing less gold and silver, the Spanish changed their way of gaining money to sugar cane farming, which was a huge success. The resources collected went directly to Spain. When the English started their conquest of the New World, the Chesapeake's looked for gold and silver like the Spanish, but after years of searching, the lack of gain led to the ending of the searches. The most important way was Tobacco farming in the southern colonies and fishing and fur trading in the north, after their conversion of “God to Cod”. Tobacco was an important cash crop that benefited the English and the colonies. Same goes for the fish and fur trades up in the north. These ways of economic gain allowed the colonies and England prosper. The Spanish and English colonies gained a profit in completely different ways. The Spanish colonies did not necessarily gain a profit because the Spaniards sent their resources back to Spain to prove of the success of the expedition. And the Spanish colonists did not owe any debt, other than the Catholic Church for help funding the expedition. With the use of natives as workers, the Spanish did not need to invest in workers. While, in the English colonists profit was a must. For the colonists needed to pay

During the period of Colonialism, the English settlers arrived in America from Europe looking for religious freedom, land and the opportunity for wealth. While the Spanish Settlers arrived at Hispaniola unexpectedly, like the English; however, the Spanish did not leave Europe because of religion persecution; rather, they wanted to expand their religious belief to the New Word. While in both the English and the Spanish colonization, the Indigenous people were oppressed and enslaved but the English took a different approach. Thereby, although both the English and the European colonized in order to obtain gold and silver to help their countries wealth, the Spanish explorers took a more forceful method of gaining land.

1. What was the view of Las Casas in relation to Spanish treatment of the indigenous people of the Indies?

Colonies in the “new world” continent of America differed in many ways. some of which were the Southwest Spanish settlements and the English colonies in North America. They both came with different motives and differed politically, economically and religiously. One of the main differences was that the English colonies aimed to create long-term settlements while the Spanish settlements aimed to gather material wealth and spread Catholicism. During the 17th century, the Southwest Spanish settlements and the English colonies in North America were close geographically, but the way they ruled their colonies was completely different in terms of politics, religion, and economic development.

The Spanish exploration of America brought many new foods, types of plants, and many forms of wealth to the European world. However, the wealth that was brought from the Americas came at a cost. The suffering and enslavement of the Native people and the transportation of Africans to America to be used as slaves alongside the Natives. Many motivations were used to support this extraction of wealth and treatment of the Natives and Africans, however two are easily verifiable. The Spanish colonization from 1492 to 1700 was motivated by religious conversion of all peoples in America and the desire for wealth and profit that had a significant impact on the lives of Native Americans and Africans.

The Spanish colony and the New england colony were significantly different of control of the European government. Both the government of the Spanish and The New England colonies had a theocracy where there were many religious requirements for secular government. This similarity happened because Europeans wanted the colonies to be dominated through religion such as Christianity. Two differences were because the European Government had control over the spanish by giving where to voyage

The time period Europeans started to develop officially began in the 15th century and lasted through the 16th century. This period of time symbolizes the time of exploration when Europeans started to explore around the world by land in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge. Many nations were in search of goods, however, the spark for exploration was the curiosity of the new routes for spice and silk exchanges. The impact of the Europeans development would affect the society permanently in the future. Therefore, religion was not the most important factor leading Europe to explore in the 15th and 16th centuries. Instead economics was the most important reason followed by religion and technological advances.

The colonizes did have some similarities like they both made a large amount of profit. This is because The Spanish and The New England Colonies knew how to trade and handle money. The ways The Spanish and The New England Colonies got this money was very different. The Spanish got their money by enforcing the harsh Encomienda system. The encomienda system was a system in which the Spanish would force Native to mine and farm materials and in return, the Native would be forced to convert their religion. The Spanish made a lot of profit off of this because the Natives made a lot of money for the Spanish and the Native didn’t get paid anything. The New England Colonies earned their money by hunting animals, farming tobacco, and trading with the native. This trading with the natives was very successful because the trading maintained good relations with the

The Spanish organized and governed its empires in America with 3 types of settlements. Pueblos, missions, and presidios.

In the 18th century, the Spanish considered bringing as many native people as possible to the virtues of Catholicism; therefore, in 1769, the first mission was founded at San Diego, and many followed toward the north to attempt to change all the aspects of the native people’s lives. To accomplish this, native people were taken away from their ‘undisciplined’ lives and concentrate at the missions, making it easier to control them for labor. Once baptized, the Indians moved to missions. Because baptism was voluntary and the labor demands were modest, this was considered free labor of Native Americans.

Pablo Tac wrote a journal describing a mission, that he grew up in as a young adult, located in the southern part of California. The flat landscape became the building grounds for this gigantic man-built mission. In Tac’s journal, he talks about this Indian tribe, called the Quechnajuichom, who inhabited the land. Tac describes the surrounding area with villages splattered all around, accordingly a road that connects the mission to the Presidio in San Diego, where the General of California stayed. The people that made up this holy land included Quechnajuicnom, Spaniards, English, and Anglo-Americans.

Spanish colonization occured during 1781-1821. Spain wanted California to be considered their land and they had every intention of doing that. The Spanish started to build things such as missons which are permanent settlements and also presidios(forts). By building these structures the Spanish started to call California theirs. The first two missions built were in San Diego and Monterrey. It all started with Father Junipero Serra he was on a "sainted mission" and his goal was to convert the California native Americans into christians. By the time the Spanish were done there was 21 missions throughout California, they were made a days walk from each other. Of the 21 missions Father Junipero Serra found the first nine. Spanish exploration and settlement had a negative impact on California and California Indians because they lost their culture, were treated cruely, and the natives lost their land.

Entry 3: There are already colonies that have ben established by former visitors of Spain. I have learned about crops and