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-Follow these steps and use the source to analyze events and their relationship in a chronology, or a list of events in sequence.

1. Identify the scope and subject of the chronology. A timeline or a text presenting a chronology might have information spanning a long period of time. Begin by identifying the span of time covered and the overall subject of the listing.
What is the timespan of the timeline shown here?
What are most of the entries about?

2. Look for clues about time. Important clues include information about key events. For example, the word about before a date indicates that the date is not exact. A dash shows that an event happened over a period of time.
Which events have an uncertain date?
Which event happened over a period of time?

3. Look for relationships between events. Entries with the same key words may be about the same person or group. See what the wording of the entry can tell you about how the events are related. What does the span of time between the entries tell you about the person or group?
What events are related to the Maya? Based on these events, how long did the Maya civilization thrive?
Which events are related to the Spanish? Based on these events, how quickly did the Spanish spread across Middle America?

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began under the Crown of Castile and spearheaded by the Spanish conquistadors. The Americas were invaded and incorporated into the Spanish Empire, with the exception of Brazil, British America, and some small regions in South America and the Caribbean. The crown created civil and religious structures to administer this vast territory. The main motivations for colonial expansion were profit through resource extraction and the spread of Catholicism through indigenous conversions. Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean and gaining control over more territory for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America. It is estimated that during the colonial period (1492–1832), a total of 1.86 million Spaniards settled in the Americas and a further 3.5 million immigrated during the post-colonial era (1850–1950); the estimate is 250,000 in the 16th century, and most during the 18th century as immigration was encouraged by the new Bourbon Dynasty.

By contrast, the indigenous population plummeted by an estimated 80% in the first century and a half following Columbus's voyages, primarily through the spread of disease, forced labor and slavery for resource extraction, and Miss-ionization. This has been argued to be the first large-scale act of genocide in the modern era.

One source claims the Spanish conquest was responsible for 1,400,000 to 2,300,000 deaths explicitly excluding tens of millions of deaths from New World disease; while Rudolph Rummel claims that 2 to 15 million indigenous peoples where killed by what he calls "democide"-(government caused murder) in the colonization of the Americas mostly in Latin America[11]-(mostly implying anywhere from just over half to all but 1 so around 1,000,001 to 14,999,999 deaths.)

In the early 19th century, the Spanish American wars of independence resulted in the secession and subsequent division of most Spanish territories in the Americas, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico, which were finally lost to The United States in 1898, following the Spanish–American War. The loss of these territories ended Spanish rule in the Americas.