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The Europeans were in need of expensive spices that were only found in Asia. At that time, Christopher Columbus was conviced that by sailing westwards to Asia he would be able to bring all those spices, and the Queen (Isabelle) accepted the offer and paid for the ships, etc.

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Thousands of years ago, Asians had already visited America and knew about the people who lived there, but the rest of Europe did not know about this land until Chritopher Columbus arrived to America

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In 1492 the Spaniard Christopher Columbus undertook a trip. He was supposed to arrive to India in order to find new trade routes, but he ended up arriving to America.

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As soon as Chritopher Columbus arrived, he thought he had arrived to India, and then called the native americans "Indians". He, then, went back to Spain but made other 3 trips in America; in one of these trips he died and not knowing that he "had discovered a new land".

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Some cultures had developed by the time Columbus arrived. Some of them were Aztecs, Mayas, and the Incas. They had developed since they already had calendars, civilizations, knew how to write and had created big and major cities

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The Spaniards brought horses, cows, sheep, big dogs, chickens, cats and they also borught wheat and rice. They brought guns and cannons and a new religion. Aditionally they brought diseases that killed many people: smallpox, among others.

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In the Americas, Spaniards took control of the cities and the natives were forced to work for them. The natives were poorly fed and were not paid, so they aquired a feeling of resentment toward the Spaniards

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The Spaniards were very happy and enthusiastic because of the "new land's discovery".
After their "discovery" they started having new interests such as becoming rich, spreading their religion, discovering and conquering new places and finding silver and gold for the Queen, among others.

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America gave Europe many new goods (potatoes, corn, chocolate, vanilla, tomatoes, tobacco, turkeys, pineapple, among others).

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Since the Spaniards wanted to conquer new territories, they soon explored the Americas from Florida to Argentina. And also they were looking towards becoming rich, so they were always stealing gold and silver from the Native Americans.

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Hernán Cortés was a colonizer who arrived in Mexico in 1519. He met Montezuma (the king of the Aztecs) and immediately Montezuma believed Cortés was a god because of the Aztecs' beliefs.
Then, Cortés and many other Spanish colonizers started their colonization process and some of the natives rebelled against them, but sadly died along with Montezuma due to  smallpox.
After this genocide and conquest, there was only 1 million aztecs left from the 25 million that existed before.

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Francisco Pizarro was interested in the Incas' gold and silver in Peru, and was motivated since he saw the success that Cortés had with the Aztecs. He decided to attack the Incan Empire and at the same time killed Atahualpa (last Inca sovereign). As soon as he did that, he entered the capital city and the Incan Empire belonged to Spain.

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After the conquest, the Americas changed completely since they knew Spanish, had a catholic religion, and lived according the Spanish culture and laws. Many cities in Latin America looked like Spanish cities.

After years of oppression, in the 19th century the Hispanics fought for their independence from Spain and became independent republics, but again, with a huge Spanish influence such as the language, customs, religion, etc.