Second voyage of Columbus
1493–1496 · Event
Seventeen ships and some 1,200 men — colonists now, not explorers — carrying the horses, cattle, sugar cane and diseases that will remake two hemispheres. On Hispaniola the settlement turns to gold tribute, enslavement and reprisal; within decades the Taíno people are all but destroyed. The Columbian Exchange and the colonial Americas both begin here.
On these timelines: The Voyages of Columbus, Pre-Columbian Americas, Latin America, Age of Exploration, Spain
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