Colonial Argentina: The History of Argentina's Colonization and Struggle for Independence

Naturally, the arrival in 1492 of Christopher Columbus on the leeward islands of the Bahamas triggered the first of the great permutations that would reshape South America and Mesoamerica forever. Though he was Italian, Columbus sailed as an agent of Spain's Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and “discovered” the New World in the name of the Kingdoms of Aragon and Castile.

By the time Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas (which...