In , amid Spanish fears that he was becoming too powerful, he was forced to return to Spain where the king reinstated him as captain general, but not to the position of civil governor.
On his return to Mexico, his powers were significantly limited and his activities monitored. He continued to explore Central America, hoping to find a strait from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
He failed, instead discovering, and naming, California. Search term:. Read more. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. He was born around in Trujillo, Spain. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian-born merchant and explorer who took part in early voyages to the New World on behalf of Spain around the late 15th century. By that time, the Vikings had established settlements in present-day North America as early as 1, A.
The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in , , and He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas. Though he did not really A decade later, he was serving as governor of the eastern province of Hispaniola when he decided to explore a nearby island, which became Sir Francis Drake participated in some of the earliest English slaving voyages to Africa and earned a reputation for his privateering, or piracy, against Spanish ships and possessions.
In search of fame and fortune, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan c. En route he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. Cortes develops the land Cortes worked to develop farms throughout New Spain, or Mexico.
He also helped spread Christianity. Cortes is accused of poisoning his enemies The king of Spain sent other rulers to New Spain to aid Cortes. When they became sick, others accused Cortes of poisoning them. Cortes returns to Spain Cortes had to return to Spain to prove his innocence to the King. Cortes returned to Mexico Cortes was freed from the charges and returned to Mexico, although the king had demoted him from governor. Cortes dies Hernan Cortes died at the age of In his later life he was mostly ignored and barely respected.
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