In 1486 Christopher Columbus offered the Reyes Catolicos a given project and Portugal (Castile with the only European country with a Navy able) to travel to the Indies to the west, a new route from the Atlantic. Scientific reports in this regard were very favorable for Colon, and the crown was a priority at that time the conquest of Granada.
Once this, the Reyes Catolicos accept your project, as the spice trade was almost a monopoly: the old, the Genoese were the only one that had managed to deal with the Ottoman Empire, owner of the old ways of the spice trade. Neighbors Portuguese were beginning to find a different way, by sea around Africa. A rich kingdom, like that of Castile, was forced to take a route itself be obtained by avoiding reliance on Genoa and Portugal, which would be very profitable for your business.
By Santa Fe Capitulaciones of April 17, 1492, negotiations were conducted with Colon: appointment of admiral, viceroy and governor of the territories to be discovered and the tenth part of all proceeds. The cost of the expedition was estimated at 2,000,000 maravedis, but Colon's salary. Contrary to the popular idea that was met by 'the jewels of the Isabel Catolica , we must clarify that half of that money is provided by Luis de Santangelo' Treasurer of the Crown of Aragon, family conversations' funds Holy Brotherhood, a quarter of the Colon by the same 'who in turn borrowed', and the remainder probably spilled bankers and merchants living in Andalusia, among whom were the brothers Pinzon and Juan de la Cosa, interested in the trading.
On August 3, 1492 at the port of Colon Partio Palos nao Santa Maria with the 'property of Juan de la Cosa' and caravels the Pinta and the Nina 'ownership of the Pinzon brothers' with about 120 crew members. On October 12 came to the island of Guanahani, which called it San Salvador and from that went to Cuba and Spanish, beginning of the colonization of the West Indies.
Nearly a year after the return of Columbus, was signed between Spain and Portugal to the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, which redistributed the spatial influence of each country set in the Treaty of Alcacovas.
In India, annexed to the kingdom of Castile, the administrative systems were established traditional Castilian kingdom. Was established in Seville in 1503 the House of Employment, to control trade with America, preventing any other port in Spain could do so. I was hearing in Santo Domingo in 1510, and to administer the new territories, a forerunner of India later formally instituiria Carlos I (1523) organizing resemblance of Castile.
The Kings got the Patronato de Indias' granted by the Pope 'let them control the American Church. Further orders were introduced in order to evangelize the natives.
Recent Comments