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Full-time farmers were present in Mesoamerican territories -
Timespan in which the Mayan civilization flowered
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Arrived to what would later be named America -
This in the Caribbean were he encounters Native American culture -
It establishes a line of demarkation from pole to pole 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands; Spain received the right to colonize all territory to the west of that line; Portugal colonized lands to the east -
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On his forth voyage he lands in the Central american territory -
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Pope Julius II authorizes the Spanish Catholic monarchs to propagate the Catholic Church in the Americas; Patronato Real gave power to crown to appoint Church officials -
All to work in the gold mines in Hispaniola -
The crown responded to the Dominicans and church officials requests with the Leyes de Burgos to outlaw some of the worst abuses of the native Americans and make Indian slavery illegal -
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Hernan Cortéz, was commissioned by the colonial authorities to explore the Mexican gulfcoast, and led an expedition of 600 men from Cuba to Mexico -
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He takes Montezuma prisoner -
Done by the European slave ships, brought slaves from Africa to satisfy the labor demands in the "New World"
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Conquistador Gil Gonzalez de Avila converts 30,000 Indians to Christianity in the area called Nicaragua, and sends some 500,000 as slaves to other parts of Spanish Empire -
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After 2 years from his arrival, Pizarro takes control of the Inca Empire since a Civil war had weakened them. -
St. Thomas Aquinas in the city of Santo Domingo -
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The encomendero's right to demand labor from his tributaries was also outlawed -
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Araucan Indian chief Caupolican, allied with Chief Lautaro, defeats Spaniards, kills Pedro de Valdivia, and defeats the forces of Francisco de Villagra de Chile -
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Incan descendant Tupac Amaru leads a two-year rebellion against authorities on behalf of the Indians.