2. Beginning with Columbus in 1492 and continuing for nearly 350 years, Spain
conquered and settled most of South America, the Caribbean, and the American
Southwest. After an initial wave of conquistadors—aided by military advantages
and infectious diseases that decimated the native populations— defeated the pre-
Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas, Spain organized a huge
imperial system to exploit the land, labor, and mineral wealth of the New World.
The Spanish empire became the largest European empire since ancient Rome,
and Spain used the wealth of the Americas to finance nearly endless warfare in
Europe, protecting the Americas with a vast navy and powerful army and bringing
Catholicism to the New World. The growth of a racially mixed society eventually
caused rifts to develop between Spain and its American colonies, and by 1824, all
of Spain's New World colonies except Cuba and Puerto Rico had fought for and
won their independence.

3.  Why Should I Care?
 Ever wonder how we, as modern Americans, got here? After all, our society doesn't look much like
the societies that existed here in the Western Hemisphere during the previous few thousand years.
And while the American people today are descendants of peoples from every continent, American
culture does look a lot like European culture, which is funny because Europe is far away. European
culture in America began not with the English, but with Spain, which over the course of about one
hundred years managed to conquer the native societies of Latin America and install a forceful
presence in what is now the United States.
Christopher Columbus is a controversial figure today, celebrated by some as a great hero even while
others attack him as a historical villain, responsible for the often-vicious conquest of the Americas
by the Spanish who followed in the wake of his "discovery" of this continent. Whether you imagine
Columbus in the role of hero or villain, there's no denying his importance. Columbus opened the
Atlantic to European explorers, adventures, merchants, and the famous conquistadores. And the
process that Columbus set in motion led to the foundation of the United States about three hundred
years after Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue.
The Spanish were able to colonize much of South and Central America, but the territory that later
became the United States stood on the far periphery of the Spain's New World empire; only in the
West did the Spanish have a serious presence in territory that is now the United States, and Spanish
penetration of California and New Mexico came only in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Spanish place names and institutions are still found all over California and the Southwest. But even
more important than the physical remains of Spanish society in the United States is the mere fact
that the Spanish came here, paved the way for later European nations to come here, and provided
the models on which those other societies thrived. There would be no United States without Spain,
and it is with Spain that the history of the United States as we know it began.

4. Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, over nearly four
centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day
Central America, theCaribbean 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 ofSouth America.[1][2][3]
In the early
19th century the revolutionary movements resulted in the independence of most
Spanish colonies in America, except for Cuba andPuerto 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.

5. The Spanish Empire leaves a cultural and
linguistic legacy around the world. With over
400 million native speakers today, Spanish
is the second most spoken native language
in the world. In conjunction with the
Portuguese Empire, the Spanish Empire's
establishment in the 15th century ushered
in the modern global era and the rise of
European dominance in global affairs

6. PhilippineRevolution

7. ILUSTRADOS
Graciano Lopez Jaena
Marcelo H. Del Pilar
Mariano Ponce
Antonio Luna
Jose Rizal

8. Philippine Revolution
called the "
Tagalog War
" by the Spanish,was an armed
military conflict between the people of
the Philippines and the Spanish
colonial authorities which resulted
in the secession of the Philippine
Islands from the Spanish Empire.

9. August1896
The Philippine Revolution began in
August1896, upon the discovery of
the anti-colonial secret organization
K atipunan
By the Spanish authorities.

10. The Philippine Revolution was an accumulation of
numbers of ideas and exposition to international
community that led to the opening of nationalistic
endeavors.
The rise of Filipino nationalism was slow but inevitable.
 Abuses by the Spanish government, military and
the clergy prevalent during its three centuries of
occupation, and the exposition of these excesses by the
ilustrados
in the late 19thcentury paved the way for a united
Filipino people

11. The main stream of influx of
revolutionary ideascame at the start of
the 19th century when thecountry was
opened for world trade. In 1809,
firstEnglishfirms were established in
Manila followedby a royal decree in
1834 opening the cityofficially to world
trade. It must be noted thatPhilippines
was formerly only tied
toMexicofrom1565 whengalleon
tradebecome the prominentmeans of
economy


13. Ang Gomburza ay isang daglat - o
pinagsama-samang piniling mga bahagi ng
pangalan - para sa tatlong martir na paring
Pilipinong sina Mariano Gomez,
Jose Apolonio Burgos, at Jacinto Zamora na
binitay sa pamamagitan ng garote noong
Pebrero 17,1872 ng mga Kastila sa mga
paratang ng pagpapatalsik ng pamahalaan
na nagdulot ng pag-aalsa sa Cavite noong
1872. Nag-iwan ang kanilang pagkabitay ng
mapait na damdamin sa maraming mga
Pilipino, lalo na kay Jose Rizal, ang
pambansang bayani ng Pilipinas. Inihandog
ni Rizal ang kaniyang nobelang
El Filibusterismo para magsilbing alaala sa
tatlong paring ito.[1]

15. A 19th century
photograph of the
Revolutionary
Congress in Malolos
Date1896–1898Location
Philippines (Southeast Asia
)ResultFilipino
victorySigning of
Pact of Biak-na-Bato (1897).
Resumption of hostilities
during Spanish–American
War (1898).
Expulsion of the Spanish
colonial government
during Spanish–American
War(1898).
Establishment of the First
Philippine Republic (1899).
Beginning of
the Philippine–American
War(1899), leading to
dissolution of the First
Philippine Republic (1901).

16. Spanish rule in the
islands officially ended
with the Treaty of
Paris of 1898 which
ended the Spanish–
American War. In it
Spain ceded the
Philippines and other
territories to the United
States.[3]
There was an
uneasy peace around
Manila with the
American forces
controlling the city and
the weaker Philippines
forces surrounding
them.

18. In its occupation policy toward Germany in 1945-1949, the
United States and its allies pursued two main goals. The first
sought to eradicate the remnants of Nazism and ensure that the
new German government would be both democratic and
peaceable. The second, pursued more ardently by the United
States than Britain and France, was to "democratize" the
German people. With the deepening of the Cold War and the
division of Germany came a deemphasis on active efforts to
change perspectives and practices in its western portions, and
the beginnings of a policy designed to strengthen West Germany
as an ally in the Western defense system. Democratization
policies, in particular, sprang from an American idealism inherent
in its own Revolution and Constitution: a conviction that other
peoples, freed from tyranny and able to make their own choice,
would adopt a set of principles and practices that had proved
successful in the United States. American realism nonetheless
made it clear that occupation officials could not force their own
brand of democracy down Germans' throats and that ultimately
their best strategy was to help Germans choose their own path
to democratic governance. Such decisions made a significant
contribution to democratic growth in postwar West Germany.

21. U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Haiti, 1915–34
Under interventionist policies of the early 20th
century, President Woodrow Wilson sent the United
States Marines into Haiti to restore order and
maintain political and economic stability in the
Caribbean after the assassination of the Haitian
President in July of 1915. This occupation continued
until 1934.