Question

Columbus - Land and money?

Accepted Answer

✓ The new land was the domain of Castile + the Pro-Spanish Pope Alexander VI ensured that the Spanish controlled the majority of the continent through papal bulls

✓ Vast profits to be made through encomiendas (grants of land worked on by enslaved natives)
* Slavery later outlawed in 1500

✓ Gold and silver was not found in large amounts until after 1509

Front	Columbus - Land and money?
Back	✓ The new land was the domain of Castile + the Pro-Spanish Pope Alexander VI ensured that the Spanish controlled the majority of the continent through papal bulls ✓ Vast profits to be made through encomiendas (grants of land worked on by enslaved natives) * Slavery later outlawed in 1500 ✓ Gold and silver was not found in large amounts until after 1509

Land Columbus Money Domain Castile Pro Spanish Pope Alexander