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Published on Feb 02, 2016

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Hernan Cortes was searching for the 3 G's, God Glory and Gold.
Gold was the most important factor because Cortes wanted to be a wealthy king and ruler,
and to become well known because of his exploration.
He was trying to establish a Spanish empire in the New World by colonizing and creating an.
imperialistic system in Latin America

5. The French and the English did not have a very good relationship with the native Americans
They came from Europe and began to take their land, and gave them diseases. The native
peoples were looked at as inferior and not treated well, making the relationship between the two
unstable

The Pope decreed that all lands discovered west of a meridian 100 leagues west of the Cape
Verde Islands should belong to Spain while new lands discovered east of that line would belong to
Portugal. This papal bull also specified that all lands already under the control of a "Christian prince"
would remain under that same control.

It was set up (in order) with Peninsulares at the top which were people born in Spain, then Creoles
which were people of European descent born in the colonies, Mestizos and Mulattoes which
were people of mixed descent, then Native Americans or people of African descent.

In April 1500, Brazil was claimed by Portugal on the arrival of the Portuguese fleet commanded by
Pedro Álvares Cabral.Until 1530 Portugal had very little interest in Brazil, mainly due to the high
profits gained through commerce with India, China, and Indonesia. Only in 1532 would the Portuguese
establish their first colony in Brazil. In the first century of settlement, the Portuguese realized it
would be difficult to use the natives as slave labor. They were not docile, had high mortality when exposed to Western diseases and could run away and hide rather easily. So Portugal turned to imported African slaves for manual labor. The discovery of gold and diamonds further raised interest in Brazil

At the head of the entire system was the monarch. He, or she, was assisted by the Council of the Indies,
s, an advisory committee consisting mainly of lawyers. The king and the Council were normally
resident in Spain. In the American colonies the senior officials were the viceroys. At the lowest, local
level of administration, within the areas of the Audiencias, were district officers called alcaldes
mayores or corregidores. They were first and foremost executive officers, but also served as local judges, and could make local regulations