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A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...
17th c. Dutch map of the Americas Universities founded in Spanish America by the Spanish Empire. The empire in the Indies was a newly established dependency of the kingdom of Castile alone, so crown power was not impeded by any existing cortes (i.e. parliament), administrative or ecclesiastical institution, or seigneurial group. [65]
Spanish America in 1800, with four kingdoms: New Spain, New Granada, Peru and La Plata The Spanish Empire (yellow) in 1800. Spanish America refers to the Spanish territories in the Americas during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The term "Spanish America" was specifically used during the territories' imperial era between 15th and 19th ...
[1] Maps could be a form of propaganda; [2] empires used maps as a means to assert sovereignty over territory, even when the situation on the ground did not merit it. The Spanish crown mandated the creation of reports from indigenous towns in New Spain, the Relaciones geográficas, a major state-directed project for gathering information.
English: SPANISH NORTH AMERICA Spanish historical presence, claimed territories, points of interest and expeditions in the territories of the modern United States, Canada and Mexico. Main features of Spanish Central America and the Spanish Caribbean are also displayed.
English: Map of all territories that were once part of the Spanish Empire at some point. Includes: Sardinia, Kingdom of Naples, Kingdom of Sicily, Duchy of Milan, Franche-Comté, Spanish Netherlands, Spanish Morocco, Equatorial Quinea, Spanish Sahara, Philippine Islands, Carolina and Mariana Islands (shown with dotted circumference), Spanish South America, Spanish Central America, Spanish ...
Latin American history (7 C, 35 P) N. ... Slavery in colonial Spanish America; ... This category contains only the following file. Eisenhower d-day.jpg 3,924 × 3,051
The New Kingdom of Granada (Spanish: Nuevo Reino de Granada), or Kingdom of the New Granada, was the name given to a group of 16th-century Spanish ultramarine provinces in northern South America governed by the president of the Royal Audience of Santafé, an area corresponding mainly to modern-day Colombia.