Question

The voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 A) opened the way for Spain to colonize North and South America. B) led the way for Portugal to build a vast trading empire in Asia. Eliminate C) led England to claim the the vast territory surrounding Hudson Bay. D) showed Spain the way around South America and into the Pacific Ocean

Answer 1

A. Portugal had already built their empire by that time, so really Spain benefited the most from this.

Answer 2

A) opened the way for Spain to colonize North and South America.

With the route traced by Colombus, hundreds of Spanish traveled to the New World mainly for the pursuit of wealth but many of them once in land remained to establish colonies. By 1500s other nations summed up to this but the Spanish colonization in the Americas had already seized pretty much of north, central and southern America. The Spanish colonization contributd to its emergence as a world power with a bast empire extending among the continent.

Today the regions occupied by them in the South correspond to the states of Venezuela, Colombia,  Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, the Caribbean islands next to Cuba.

In the North the included many current states such as California, New Mexico, Florida as well as the territory belonging to Mexico.