Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...

Spanish colonial rule divided Mexico with a class system that still affects society today. The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in ...

Public statues and tributes to early Spanish conquerors are facing mounting criticism tied to the brutal treatment of American Indians centuries ago by Spanish soldiers and missionaries, with ...

"An ethnohistoric and archaeological study of the transformations that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550"-- Provided by ...

A picture shows a 16th century anchor, that may represent ground tackle used during the scuttling of Hernan Cortes' fleet of 1519, recovered at the littoral of Veracruz state A picture shows a 16th ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is marking the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan with an exhibition that aims to subvert the traditional ...

Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil is one of the few places in Latin America that Spain didn’t seize and colonize, but you wouldn’t know it from the neon green public telephone kiosks on most street corners ...