How Did The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico

Spain’s Conquest of the Indian civilizations of Mexico and South America shaped their vast new world in many ways. The Spanish increased monetary gains, gained power and created a new type of breed shaping its vast new world empire. “Spain secured Columbus’s discoveries through the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) dividing the land with Portugal” (Spain’s main competition at the time.) (Kennedy, Cohen & Piehl Pg.14.) With the land secured, Spain gained more power through many of the lands resources such as gold and silver from Mexico and Peru. These resources helped the Spanish increase monetary gains. It also linked Spain with many other countries through trade making its way to a new economic system known as capitalism as stated in Conquistadors
and Spanish Colonization by The Khan Academy. Another essential feature was the creation of the first mestizo (person mixed with indigenous American and European). The son of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and Nahua woman La Malinche (Cortes’ translator), named Martin came to be first mestizo. Whether he was made from love or force is yet to be known but I think he became the first human byproduct of colonization shaping the appearance of people of the New world. (Khan Academy) Power is an eminent result that comes along with conquest. Land from the New world meant more of its resources therefore more money to be made by the Spanish increasing its power. Had the Spanish not authorized Columbus on his voyage, the world and its people would not be the same and Spain would have never shaped the new world and its Empire into what we know today.