The document discusses the conquest and colonization of America by European powers between the 15th and 19th centuries. It led to the disappearance of great American empires like the Inca and Aztec empires and a demographic collapse of indigenous populations. Europeans also imposed their languages, mainly Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Economic factors drove expansion as population growth in Europe increased demand for raw materials and new markets. Ideological factors also contributed as European nations wanted to claim land across the Atlantic based on tales of bountiful, unexplored territories.
The document discusses the conquest and colonization of America by European powers between the 15th and 19th centuries. It led to the disappearance of great American empires like the Inca and Aztec empires and a demographic collapse of indigenous populations. Europeans also imposed their languages, mainly Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Economic factors drove expansion as population growth in Europe increased demand for raw materials and new markets. Ideological factors also contributed as European nations wanted to claim land across the Atlantic based on tales of bountiful, unexplored territories.
The document discusses the conquest and colonization of America by European powers between the 15th and 19th centuries. It led to the disappearance of great American empires like the Inca and Aztec empires and a demographic collapse of indigenous populations. Europeans also imposed their languages, mainly Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Economic factors drove expansion as population growth in Europe increased demand for raw materials and new markets. Ideological factors also contributed as European nations wanted to claim land across the Atlantic based on tales of bountiful, unexplored territories.
The conquest and colonization of America refers to
the historical process by which various European powers conquered and established systems of colonial domination in the American continent, from the end of the 15th century to the 19th century. This process implied the disappearance of the great American empires, particularly the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire, as well as the demographic collapse of the American population. Simultaneously, the colonial powers imposed the widespread use of European languages in the Americas, mainly Spanish, English and Portuguese. europeos en América, principalmente el español, el inglés y el portugués.
Development
As the Turks took Constantinople, this trade carried
out by Arabs, Venetians and Genoese is interrupted, which led the Portuguese to search for a direct route to the land of spices. Economic factor. This is the most important factor of all because it underlies all the others. The increase in the European population during the second half of the fifteenth century, due to the end of the Black Death and the great medieval wars, together with the development of trade, materialized in a strong economic expansion, based on the search for raw materials for the craft industry and new markets where to place the manufactured products. This activity caused a greater circulation of money, which increased the demand for precious metals to mint money. The European mines were unable to meet this strong demand, so the precious metals had to be sought in the Sudan and other places that had to be sought. Ideological factors. Across the Atlantic Ocean,Europeans grew interested in te Americas.They Heard tales about these wild,bountiful lands.England,France,Italy, and Spain wanted to claim land in North America
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