The colonial era in Latin America began in the 15th–16th centuries when explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci made voyages of discovery to the New World. The conquistadores who followed, including Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro, brought Spanish rule to much of the region.

Colonial-era religion played a crucial role in everyday life, with the Spanish Crown ensuring religious purity and aggressively prosecuting perceived deviations like witchcraft. In the early nineteenth century nearly all of areas of Spanish America attained independence by armed struggle, with the exceptions of Cuba and Puerto Rico.

2021年5月9日 · Latin America has seen wars, dictators, famines, economic booms, foreign interventions, and a whole assortment of varied calamities over the years. Each and every period of its history is crucial in some way to understanding the present-day character of the land.

2025年1月26日 · History of Latin America, the history of the region (South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Romance language-speaking Caribbean islands) from the pre-Columbian period, including Spanish and Portuguese colonization, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.

2025年1月27日 · History of Latin America - Colonialism, Revolution, Independence: The first decades of the second half of the 19th century represented the beginnings of a fundamental shift in the still-young nations of Latin America. At the heart of this transition was a growing orientation of the economies of the region to world markets.

2024年11月20日 · Colonial Latin American Review (CLAR) is a unique interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of the colonial period in Latin America. CLAR offers a critical forum where scholars can exchange ideas, build on legacies of inquiry and chart new directions of research.

The Cambridge History of Latin America is the first authoritative large-scale history of the whole of Latin America - Mexico and Central America, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (and Haiti), Spanish South America and Brazil, from the first contacts between the native peoples of the Americas and Europeans in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth ...

The history of Latin America in colonial times was a major chapter in world history. It profoundly shaped the destinies of the nations of those regions, whose cultural influences, in cuisine, literature and popular culture, have spread around the globe.

The fully – revised textbook Latin America in Colonial Times presents that story in an engaging but informative new package, revealing how a new civilization and region – Latin America – emerged from that encounter.

2024年11月20日 · During the colonial era, Latin America was a complex and dynamic region, with various European powers vying for control and influence. The historical maps of this period provide a fascinating glimpse into the colonization process, revealing the intricacies of European colonization and its effects on the region. The following maps offer a ...