1. The Conquest of Mexico
The Spanish Across the Atlantic Ocean, another great empire had recently accomplished a consolidation of its own. Spain had successfully completed the Reconquista. ... In 1493, after Columbus's first voyage, Spain sent envoys to the pope demanding that he give Spain the rights to Columbus's discoveries, as the past popes had given the Portuguese the rights to Africa and lands to the east. The new pope, Alexander VI (pope from 1492 to 1503), being a Spanish Borgia himself, acknow-ledged these previous "injustices" and issued a series of four bulls that established the papacy as an ...
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