A History of Latin America

44 CHAPTER 2 THE HISPANIC BACKGROUND nothing of the kind happened in the economic sphere.Concentration of land in noble hands ac ...

FERDINAND AND ISABELLA: THE CATHOLIC SOVEREIGNS 45 of Castile by 1480 and the Castilian peasant was legally free to leave his vi ...

46 CHAPTER 2 THE HISPANIC BACKGROUND help to explain why the Sovereigns, who had sur- rounded themselves with Jewish and convers ...

THE HAPSBURG ERA: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY 47 The Hapsburg Era: Triumph and Tragedy Isabella’s death in 1504 placed all of the Iberia ...

48 CHAPTER 2 THE HISPANIC BACKGROUND holdings in central Italy were threatened by his expansionist plans. Actually, only one of ...

THE HAPSBURG ERA: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY 49 but that was still powerful enough militarily and territorially to be feared and respec ...

50 CHAPTER 2 THE HISPANIC BACKGROUND peasants, artisans, and burghers. The noble con- tempt for labor infected all classes. The ...

THE HAPSBURG ERA: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY 51 Quevedo, “that seem to exist and have their being, and yet they are nothing more than a ...

FOCUS QUESTIONS What were the conditions in Europe that led to the conquest of America? What effects did the conquest have on t ...

THE GREAT VOYAGES 53 Prester John, who was already identifi ed with the emperor of Abyssinia, although no one knew how far his e ...

54 CHAPTER 3 THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA outfi tted and sent to India. Swinging far west in the south Atlantic, Cabral made landfall ...

THE GREAT VOYAGES 55 Caribbean of sugar-processing techniques and the method of using cuttings to plant sugar cane. THE VOYAGES ...

56 CHAPTER 3 THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA the south Atlantic and the promising route around Africa to the East. Yielding to Portugues ...

THE GREAT VOYAGES 57 Gómara, fi lled with imperialist pride, had no doubts on that score. In 1552 he wrote, “The greatest event ...

58 CHAPTER 3 THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA accompanied by an expansion of mental horizons and the rise of new ways of viewing the worl ...

59 Hava na Sa ntiago Isabela Navidad Sa nto Domi ngo F LORID A UY AC AT N HO N DUR AS N IC AR AG UA AUG AD UL EP AP N A M A TI E ...

60 CHAPTER 3 THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA The perspective of “The Vision of the Van- quished” and new approaches in historical resear ...

THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO 61 BALBOA AND MAGELLAN Others followed in the wake of Columbus’s ships and gradually made known the immen ...

62 CHAPTER 3 THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA the place of his throne and canopy, for that is what he promised when he departed!” The “wi ...

THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO 63 completed negotiations with the emperor Charles for an agreement authorizing the conquest and settleme ...