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- The Spanish East Indies (1565-1898) — the colonial territories of the Spanish Empire in the Asia-Pacific region. From 1565 to 1821 this colony, and the Spanish West Indies in the Caribbean, were under jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City.
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The Spanish East Indies [b] were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, governed through the captaincy general in Manila for the Spanish Crown, initially reporting to Mexico City, then later directly reporting to Madrid after the Spanish American Wars of Independence.
In October 1492, a group of Europeans, mostly originating in the southern part of the Spanish kingdom of Castile and led by an Italian, Christopher Columbus, arrived in the Caribbean. They found themselves among peoples previously unknown to them who lived in and moved around an archipelago of islands that formed a crescent some 2,000 miles long.
The Spanish East Indies (1565-1898) — the colonial territories of the Spanish Empire in the Asia-Pacific region. From 1565 to 1821 this colony, and the Spanish West Indies in the Caribbean, were under jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City.
- The Pyramid of Government
- Council of The Indies
- Viceroys
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- Alcaldes Mayores & Town Councils
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Spain colonised vast parts of the Americas starting from the landing by Christopher Columbus(1451-1506) in 1492. Working through the Caribbean islands and then moving on to the mainland in the first decades of the 16th century, by 1570, some 100,000 Europeans were governing over 10 million indigenous peoples who inhabited lands from what is today t...
The Council of the Indies (El Real y Supremo Consejo de las Indias) was based in Spain, and it was created by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1519-1556) in 1524 to oversee all colonial matters in the Americas and the Spanish East Indies. The name of this institution comes from the term then used to describe the Americas, the 'Spanish Indies'. The...
The viceroy directly represented the Spanish Crown in their particular colonial territory, a viceroyalty being the largest administrative area within the empire. There were eventually four viceroyalties: 1. The Viceroyalty of New Spain(today's Mexico, Central America, parts of the southern United States, the Caribbean Antilles, and the Philippines)...
The corregidor was a judicial and political officer who directly represented the Spanish Crown. He was, in effect, the governor of a specific area. The corregidor in New Spain served for five years if selected from Spain, but only three years if recruited locally. In Peru, he served for just one year. Thecorregidor appointed administrators (tenient...
All the major cities of the Spanish Empire had an audiencia, which was responsible for certain legal, political and commercial matters which concerned both European settlers and indigenous peoples. The audiencia had jurisdiction over a particular city and its surrounding area. It met in regular sessions (acuerdos) and passed legislation (autos acor...
Local town councils (cabildos) were led by a mayor (alcaldes mayores) who typically served for three years. Beneath the mayor were the councillors (regidores), between four and six in a small town and at least eight in larger towns. The councillors were initially appointed by the Crown but then elected by the local citizens (vecinos), that is prope...
All of the above institutions and individuals were so organised that they kept each other in check and resulted in no single person or body ever becoming so powerful that they might threaten the interests of the Spanish monarchy. Another specific policy to ensure this objective was to limit the terms of office of officials in any single location. T...
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Oct 16, 2009 · From the establishment of the first colonies in the Caribbean and the conquest of Mexico and South America to the colonisation of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Spanish Empire’s expansion and influence led to profound and far-reaching destruction and changes in the world.
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus and continuing for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America.
As the smallest of the Greater Antilles, Puerto Rico played a surprisingly important part in the history of the early Spanish Caribbean. Thwarted by significant indigenous resistance, Spanish colonization of the island was slow in comparison to later theaters of interest in the Caribbean.
