Columbus: Death in the Caribbean (TRIH ep 308, part 3)
1493 · Resource
This episode (part three of the podcast’s series on Christopher Columbus) follows Columbus’s return to Spain and his rushed second voyage to the Caribbean. Holland and Sandbrook discuss the political and religious context — Ferdinand II and Isabella I, papal intervention in May 1493 that divided territorial claims, and the Treaty of Tordesillas — and the Spanish desire for gold, conversion and colonists.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1493
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)