The Spanish Colonization: Encounter Between Two Worlds (Colonización Española: Encuentro de Dos Mundos)

One of the things that we seem to know a lot about but strangely, at the same time, not much at all is the Spanish colonization of South America and the Caribbean. Some sources have led us to believe that huge armies of conquistadors traveled from nation to nation, killing, plundering and burning down everything they came across on their conquest… but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Mostly explorers (or at least at the beginning they were), the Spanish conquerors of Latin Americ...