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    The European colonization of the Americas began in the 15th century with Spanish exploration and conquest. Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492 led to the establishment of the first European colonies in the Americas and the beginning of Western control over North and South America. As more European powers gained interest in colonizing the region, competition for territory increased and colonies often faced threats from neighboring colonies and indigenous tribes. The Spanish established the earliest systematic colonies and introduced Christianity through the mission system in an effort to convert indigenous populations.

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    The European colonization of the Americas began in the 15th century with Spanish exploration and conquest. Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492 led to the establishment of the first European colonies in the Americas and the beginning of Western control over North and South America. As more European powers gained interest in colonizing the region, competition for territory increased and colonies often faced threats from neighboring colonies and indigenous tribes. The Spanish established the earliest systematic colonies and introduced Christianity through the mission system in an effort to convert indigenous populations.

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    COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS

    The European colonization of the Americas describes the age of exploration and the


    resulting conquest of indigenous lands. The Age of Exploration represents the beginning
    of the establishment of Western European control in what is now considered North and
    South America.
     Had been preoccupied with internal wars and was slowly recovering from the loss of population caused by the Black
    Death; thus the rapid rate at which it grew in wealth and power was unforeseeable in the early 15th century.
    As more nations gained an interest in
    the colonization of the Americas,
    competition for territory became
    increasingly fierce. Colonists often
    faced the threat of attacks from
    neighboring colonies, as well as from
    indigenous tribes and pirates
    SPAIN: While some Norse colonies were
    established in north eastern North America as early
    as the 10th century, systematic European
    colonization began in 1492, when a spanish
    expedition headed by the Italian explorer
    Christopher Colombus sailed west to find a new
    trade route to the Far East  but inadvertently landed
    in what came to be known to Europeans as the
    "New world"
    CHRISTIAN CONVERSION:When Pope Alexander VI issued the Inter caetera bull in May 1493 granting the new lands to the Kingdom of Spain , he
    requested in exchange an Evangelization people. During Colombus's second voyage, Benectidine's monks accompanied him, along with twelve other
    priests. Through a practice called the Mission System, supervised communities were established in frontier areas for Spanish priests to preach the gospel
    to the indigenous population.One of the first primitive schools for Native Americans was founded by Fray Pedro de Gante in 1523.
    The practice of slavery was not uncommon in native
    society prior to the arrival of the Europeans. Captured
    members of rival tribes were often used as slaves and/or for
    human sacrifice. But with the arrival of white colonists,
    Indian slavery "became commodified, expanded in
    unexpected ways, and came to resemble the kinds of
    human trafficking that are recognizable to us today"
                       THE END

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