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  2. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Map of Spanish America c. 1800, showing the 4 viceroyalties (New Spain, pink), (New Granada, green), (Peru, orange), (Río de la Plata, blue) and provincial divisions During the early era and under the Habsburgs, the crown established a regional layer of colonial jurisdiction in the institution of Corregimiento , which was between the Audiencia ...

  3. Spanish colonial pueblos and villas in North America - Wikipedia

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    Historical map of Spanish North America Map of Spanish America c. 1800 Diagram of Pueblo of Santa Barbara, California (Walter A. Hawley, 1910) U.S. post office application from 1866 shows the four square Spanish leagues of the pre-statehood Los Angeles Pueblo Provincias Ynternas de Nueva España mapped in 1817

  4. Historiography of Colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Spanish Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Criollo elites (colonial-born Spaniards) and mestizo and mulatto militia (of mixed Indigenous-Spanish and African-Spanish descent) provided only minimal protection, often assisted by more influential allies with vested interests in maintaining the balance of power and safeguarding the Spanish Empire from falling into enemy hands.

  7. Spanish missions in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Many hundreds of missions, durable and ephemeral, created by numerous Catholic religious orders were scattered throughout the entirety of the Spanish colonies, which extended southward from the United States and Mexico to Argentina and Chile. The relationship between Spanish colonization and the Canonicalization of the Americas is inextricable.

  8. Spanish Florida - Wikipedia

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    Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba in the Viceroyalty of New Spain , and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas .

  9. History of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 2005. Robinson, David J., ed. Migration in Colonial Spanish America. New York: Cambridge University Press 1990. Russell-Wood, A.J.R. Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil. 2nd. ed. Oneworld Publications 2002.