The staggering quantity of gold the conquistadors extracted from the Americas allowed Spain to become the richest country in the world. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2045/the-gold-of-the-conquistadors/ #History #Conquistadors #Gold #SpanishEmpire

The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2017/colonial-government-in-the-spanish-empire/ #History #SpanishEmpire

The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2017/colonial-government-in-the-spanish-empire/ #History #SpanishEmpire

Beautifully written historical essay on some of the first Asians known to have set foot on American shores -- in the 16th century, from one of the first Spanish galleons to approach the California coast: https://aeon.co/essays/asians-were-visiting-the-west-coast-of-america-in-1587 #aapi #history #asianamericanhistory #spanishcalifornia #california #americanhistory #spanishempire #phillipines @histodons

Juan Ponce de León (1474-1521) was a Spanish conquistador who led expeditions from Puerto Rico to the coast of Florida, giving the region its current name. https://www.worldhistory.org/Juan_Ponce_de_Leon/ #History #JuanPoncedeLeon #SpanishEmpire

The staggering quantity of gold the conquistadors extracted from the Americas allowed Spain to become the richest country in the world. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2045/the-gold-of-the-conquistadors/ #History #Conquistadors #Gold #SpanishEmpire

The Spanish conquistadors might have gained a lasting reputation as the great gold-seekers of history, but they were actually far more successful in acquiring silver. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2049/the-silver-of-the-conquistadors/ #History #Conquistador #Silver #SpanishEmpire

Kotaku: Colonial Slavery Board Game's Relaunch Is Hoping Third Time's The Charm https://kotaku.com/puerto-rico-1897-board-game-slavery-controversy-slaves-1850552492 #gaming #tech #kotaku #spanishempire #ravensburger #lukewinkie #puertorico #ravensburg #americas #sports

Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar and former conquistador who revealed the atrocities of the conquests of New Spain and Peru and who strove to protect the basic rights of indigenous peoples in the Spanish Empire. https://www.worldhistory.org/Bartolome_de_las_Casas/ #History #BartolomedelasCasas #Encomienda #SpanishEmpire

The Spanish conquistadors might have gained a lasting reputation as the great gold-seekers of history, but they were actually far more successful in acquiring silver. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2049/the-silver-of-the-conquistadors/ #History #Conquistador #Silver #SpanishEmpire

https://archive.org/details/revolutionary-activism

Revolutionary Activism: The Spanish Resistance in context by Octavio Alberola; Alvaro Millán; Juan Zambrana; Paul Sharkey

Topics
#antifascism, #spanishfascism, #fascisminspain, #antifascisminspain, #francoistspain, #franciscofranco, #spanishempire

The libertarian activist described as 'Franco's public enemy number one' recounts some of the context of the new wave of opposition to the Franco regime in the 1960s, and its international significance.

The apparatus of colonial government in the Spanish Empire consisted of multiple levels, starting with the monarchy and Council of the Indies at the top and moving down to the viceroy, audiencias, mayors, and local councils. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2017/colonial-government-in-the-spanish-empire/ #History #SpanishEmpire

The Repartimiento system was a distribution of rights to Spanish colonialists and municipalities, which allowed them to extract forced but low-paid labour from local communities in conquered territories. https://www.worldhistory.org/Repartimiento/ #History #Repartimiento #SpanishEmpire

Adelantado was an office awarded by the Spanish Crown to conduct military campaigns in the medieval period but then repurposed during the Age of Exploration to grant an individual the right to privately fund expeditions of discovery and conquest in overseas territories. The adelantado could keep the lion-share of any resources they came across, provided they paid a smaller part to the Crown.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Adelantado/ #Adelantado #SpanishEmpire

Francisco Pizarro (c. 1478-1541) was a conquistador who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca civilization from 1532. With only a small group of men, Pizarro took advantage of his superior weapons and the fact that the Incas were weakened by civil war and the arrival of European diseases to take over the largest empire in the world.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Francisco_Pizarro/ #Conquistador #FranciscoPizarro #SpanishEmpire

Civil Rights Groups Call On the House To Do Something About Racist Insular Cases | https://www.theroot.com/civil-rights-groups-call-on-the-house-to-do-something-a-1849846289 #constitutionoftheunitedstates #insularareasoftheunitedstates #supremecourtoftheunitedstates #territoriesoftheunitedstates #americancivillibertiesunion #spanishempire #insularcases #supremecourt #socialissues #puertorico #law2ccrime #neilweare #politics #insular #courts

Juan de Grijalva (aka Grijalba, 1489-1527) was a Spanish conquistador who explored the eastern coast of Mexico in 1518. His notable achievements included a demonstration that the Yucatán Peninsula was just that and not, as previously thought, an island. Grijalva's expedition acquired through trade certain items made of gold, and these two discoveries encouraged the Spanish to send further exped...https://www.worldhistory.org/Juan_de_Grijalva/ #Conquistador #JuandeGrijalva #SpanishEmpire

@karlauerbach @rangerdan I've got bicoastal roots, so...

It's not just condescending... but ignorant, and so many other things. Maybe even racist, and biased...

After all, California and the west coast was originally #NativeAmerican, such as our local #Ohlone people, then part of the #SpanishEmpire, and then #Mexico.

#SanJose was the first capital within the U.S. Union, as well as where the founding #California #ConstitutionalConvention was held. The previous capital was in Monterey.

New: Vol. 79, n.2 of Anuario de Estudios Americanos #journal #histodons.

On the #Atlantic economy and the #SlaveTrade in the #16thCentury

#earlymodern #SpanishHistory #SpanishEmpire #IberoAmerica #CSIC

https://estudiosamericanos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosamericanos/issue/view/69

New: Vol. 79, n.2 of Anuario de Estudios Americanos #journal #histodons.

On the #Atlantic economy and the #SlaveTrade in the #16thCentury

#earlymodern #SpanishHistory #SpanishEmpire #IberoAmerica #CSIC

https://estudiosamericanos.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosamericanos/issue/view/69