Problem
1) What factors and motivations led to Spanish and Portuguese expansion across the Atlantic Ocean?
2) In what ways did the indigenous peoples resist and adapt to the European conquest of their territories?
3) What kinds of racial and social hierarchies existed in colonial Spanish and Portuguese America? How did they change, if at all, over time?
4) What were the varied roles of the Catholic Church in colonial Latin America?
5) What were the economic strategies of the Spaniards and Portuguese in the different regions of Latin America?