Spanish provinces

Causes of the findings:
· Search for new routes
· Development of new maps (portuanos)
· New boats: Carabela (triangular, square sail)
· Generalization of navigation tools (compass, astrolabe)

Discoveries of the Canary Islands:
· Genoveses / · Lancellot Malocello
Lanzarote, Nicolas of Recco
· Majorcan and Catalan / · attempt to introduce Christian
· Castilian and Andalusian / · slaves

Explorations:
· Potugal / · route finding species
· Henry the navigator
· Atlantic / Madeira ·
· Azores
· Skirted Africa (Cape Blanco, Gulf of Guinea, Cape Good Hope


· Castilla / · Westward
· America
· Magellan (it was a great navigator) Elcano (achievement go around the world and dmostro that the earth was round)

Implications of the findings:
· Seforman 2 large overseas empire (Portugal and Spain)
· Is signed in the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
· Hegemony Europe
· Advancement in Science


Pre-Columbian America, before the arrival of Spanish America existed in various cultures to which they gave the name of Columbian, that were there before the arrival of Cristobal Colom. The most prominent were the Maya, Inca, Aztecs.
The Maya were an ancient civilization located in the Yucatan Peninsula and in other lowland. When the Spanish arrived decadencis underwent profound. The Maya were organized in cities or states ruled by a chief city was divided into four social classes: priests, nobles, peasants, slaves. Almost all the population was rural and engaged in cultibo spices, cocoa, tomatoes, beans, squash, etc and they got great achievements in mathematics and astronomy as they had a calendar and write own Los Incas: It was the largest empire of the existing pre-Columbian America. The Inca society was formed by several social groups: nobles, village, slaves, and slaves. Inca chief was considered the son of the sun. The majority of the population were peasants and cultibaban corn and potatoes. Domestic animals were the most important and alpacas llmas of which was obtained wool and milk. Worked copper and gold.
The Asteca: inhabited the valley of Mexico. He was a warlike people, who were organized into tribes divided into several social groups: priests, nobles, freemen and slaves. The economy is based on the cultivation of corn, squash and tomatoes. The astec fyertes tributes were paid to the conquered and used to slaughter many enemies defeated. For all that were so hated.