The Spanish colonization of the Americas was Spain's conquest, settlement, and rule over much of the western hemisphere from 1492-1898. Beginning with the arrival in the Western Hemisphere of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish Empire gradually expanded from early small settlements in the Caribbean over three centuries to include Central America, most of South America, Mexico, what today is Southwestern United States, the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of North America, reaching Alaska. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Spanish possessions in America began a series of independence movements, which culminated in Spain's loss of all of its colonies on the mainland of North, Central and South America by 1825. The remaining Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were occupied by the United States following the Spanish-American War (1898), ending Spanish rule in the Americas. The Spanish settled in many different places all over America.

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Chili is a type of spicy pepper which originate from the middle and South America. 500 years ago Columbus has brought the pepper in the Europe from his travel along West Indies. From ancient times it is used in many recipes in the world. First of all that is the unavoidable spicy Mexican food on which ....

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Two Columbus, Ohio, fast-food restaurants have been sued over an alleged 'free food' scheme to get Ohio State University students to sign up for credit cards. Ohio Attorney Gen. Marc Dann said Potbelly Sandwich Works and La Bamba Mexican Restaurants Group offered students free sandwiches and burritos but, first, they would have to