Spain brought many goods from the Americas back to Europe, including tomatoes, potatoes, and tobacco. However, they also introduced the concept of slavery, with Queen Isabella struggling with the decision to allow enslaved people to be sold. The Spanish conquistadors had relations with native women, establishing a mixed-race population known as Mestizos and a complex caste system. They also spread Christianity while adopting local religious icons like La Virgen de Guadalupe to help convert the native population.

1. By: Jessica Lopez

3.  Spain brought many things
over from the Americas
 Tomatoes, tobacco,
potatoes too but more
significantly the color of
pure red which was a
symbol of royalty in Europe
 Queen Isabella struggled
with the decision on
whether to let the
conquistadors bring over
slaves and sell them in
slave
 She didn’t believe in Slaves
but yet had some in her
own home

4.  In Oaxaca you can still  Conquistadors also
see how Mexico used to brought about Mestizos
be since they began having
 They speak a dialect relations with the native
called Zapoteco women
 The main thing brought  This brought about the
over from Europe was Casta system
religion
 Spaniards adopted La
Virgen de Guadalupe to
their religion since it was
an important icon in the
culture of the Natives
and would allow them to
continue to worship her

5.  King Phillip became intolerant  There was a storm that
of any religion that wasn’t dragged the Spanish fleet even
Christian further which allowed the
 The Spanish found Bolivia English to finish off the rest of
where the Spaniards couldn’t the armada
survive the work and neither
could the African Slaves
 King Phillip gave the
conquistadors permission to
use the indigenous men in the
mines
 King Phillip used all the silver
he found to fund his
persecution of protestants
 English ships out-maneuvered
around the Spanish Armada
which forced them out to the
ocean