Spanish colonial
New World empire
Spanish colonial describes the style, period, or legacy of Spain's empire in the Americas and elsewhere, roughly 1492 to the early 1800s.
In architecture, Spanish colonial features stucco walls, red tile roofs, arched doorways, and interior courtyards: a Spanish colonial revival home in Los Angeles.
The term also applies to art, furniture, and urban planning from this era.
Spanish colonial history encompasses the conquest, mission systems, and governance that shaped much of Latin America and the American Southwest.
- missionsAssigned important tasks
- mission bellsPendant-flowered native bulbs
- conquistadorsSpanish colonial soldiers
- CatholicismPapal Christian denomination
- patron saintHoly figure guarding devotees
indigenous uprisings · casta system · blood purity · Manila · galleon · haciendas · silver mining · independence movements · repartimiento · Columbian Exchange · mercantilism · crown jewels · viceroyalty · courtyards · adobe · forced labor · presidio · gold
Spanish colonialindependent
Free from external control
indigenous · pre-Columbian · sovereign · self-governing · postcolonial
Spanish colonialpost-independence
After achieving sovereignty
republican · postcolonial · pre-Columbian · post-colonial · indigenous