After what event did the Spanish invade Latin America?

1492 After Columbus sailed to America, European colonists began to invade Latin America.

Spain and Portugal were the first countries to invade America. From the end of15th century to the first half of16th century, Spain first invaded the West Indies, and then successively invaded Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. By the middle of16th century, almost all of Latin America was occupied by Spain except Brazil. Brazil, which accounts for two fifths of the territory of Latin America, was discovered by the Portuguese in 1500, and became a colony in the first half of the 6th century. In the process of conquering Latin America, Spanish-Portuguese colonists brutally slaughtered and plundered the indigenous Indians.

After the opening of the new sea route and the discovery of the new continent, the emerging bourgeoisie, declining aristocrats and businessmen in the primitive accumulation period flocked to Asia, Africa and Latin America for colonial conquest and plunder with the support of various dynasties. Portugal and Spain conquered and plundered before other European countries, and the two countries declared the first place they arrived as their own territory. As a result, the two countries had a dispute over territory. Pope Alexander VI intervened, and the two sides signed a treaty in June 1494, drawing a demarcation line from the North Pole to the South Pole at 2220km west of Cape Verde Islands, which is called "papal meridian". According to the treaty, the non-Christian land found west of this line belongs to Spain and belongs to the East. When Magellan sailed to the Moluccas, there was a contradiction about the ownership of the island. 1529, the two sides signed a treaty in Zaragoza, drawing another dividing line at 17 degrees east of the Moluccas. According to these two agreements, Spain almost monopolized America, while Portugal put Asia and Africa under its sphere of influence, which was the first colonial partition in world history.

Shortly after Columbus arrived in America, the Spanish began to occupy the American continent. /kloc-In the first decade of the 6th century, it first occupied the Caribbean and the West Indies, established colonial strongholds in Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba and Puerto Rico, and then further occupied the vast Central and South America. By the middle of16th century, except Portuguese Brazil, the whole Central and South America continent was basically conquered by the Spanish, among which Mexico and Peru were the most typical. (The Conquest of Cortez and Pizarro)

After the Spanish conquered Central and South America, they established a colonial government there and sent governors to rule directly, and then the Spanish immigrated in large numbers. By 1574, the total amount reached150,000. Spanish nobles, monks, businessmen and other adventurers occupied the land there and became the owners of large real estate. The original owners of the land became serfs or slaves, and the colonists pursued slavery in plantations and gold and silver mines, cruelly squeezing and exploiting Indians, resulting in a sharp decline in the Indian population. For example, in 1503, Spain invaded Jamaica, and in 1548, the inhabitants of the island were almost extinct. By the middle of16th century (154 1), it was estimated that150,000 Indians in the Spanish colony had been wiped out.