- published: 25 Apr 2016
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Colonial expansion under the Spanish Empire was initiated by the Spanish conquistadores and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries. The motivations for colonial expansion were trade and the spread of the Christian faith through indigenous conversions. It lasted for over four hundred years, from 1492 to 1898.
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, over nearly four centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico; much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast regions of the United States; and though inactive, with claimed territory in present day British Columbia Canada; and U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon; and the western half of South America. In the early 19th century the revolutionary movements resulted in the independence of most Spanish colonies in America, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico, given up in 1898 following the Spanish-American War, together with Guam and the Philippines in the Pacific. Spain's loss of these last territories politically ended Spanish colonization in America. The cultural influences, though, still remain.
En trece medidas fue Iximal
A la cabeza de su cuenta
Y nueve Almut ytrece Oc en su Iximal
Con todos los hombres
No querian esperar a los Tzules
Ni a su cristianismo
No querian dar tributo a su dios
Porque sabian su destino
Guiados y velando por ellos
Sus dioses de las estrallas
Mis seiscientos años y trecientos mas...
Toda luna, todo dia y viento
Habia de llegar el fin
De su vida...
Toda sangre llena el lugar de inquietud
Derramando su poder.
Creando odio, sin miedo al dolor
Ni el temor a pecar, castrando el sol
Asesinos Tzules devoramos sus almas
Por la eternidad aqui quedaron sus hijos