====Kolumbus dan hubungan dengan Portugis====
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Pada 3 Agustus 1492, rombongan Kolumbus berangkat dan tiba di [[Pulau San Salvador]] pada 12 Oktober. Kolumbus menamai demikian mengikuti nama Yesus sang Juru Selamat.<ref name="Edwards, John 2005, p. 120"/> Dia kembali tahun berikutnya dan menemui penguasa, membawa orang asli dan emas. Meskipun Kolumbus mendapat dukungan dari Ratu Kastila, perbendaharaan tidak menunjukkan adanya bayaran kepada Kolumbus sampai pada 1493, setelah pelayaran pertamanya terselesaikan.<ref>Edwards, John. ''Ferdinand and Isabella''. Pearson Education Limited, 2005, p. 119</ref> Di masa ini, Spanyol mulai memasuki masa keemasan dalam penjelajahan dan kolonialisme.
On 3 August 1492 his expedition departed and arrived in [[San Salvador Island]] on 12 October. He named it San Salvador after Jesus the Savior.<ref name="Edwards, John 2005, p. 120"/> He returned the next year and presented his findings to the monarchs, bringing natives and gold under a hero's welcome. Although Columbus was sponsored by the Castilian queen, treasury accounts show no royal payments to him until 1493, after his first voyage was complete.<ref>Edwards, John. ''Ferdinand and Isabella''. Pearson Education Limited, 2005, p. 119</ref> Spain entered a [[Golden Age (metaphor)|Golden Age]] of [[Age of Discovery|exploration]] and [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|colonisation]], the period of the [[Spanish Empire]]. The Portuguese did not recognise that South America belonged to the Spanish because it was on Portugal's sphere of influence and the Portuguese King John II threatened to send an army to claim the land for the Portuguese. In 1494, by the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]], Isabella and Ferdinand agreed to divide the Earth, outside of Europe, with king [[John II of Portugal|John II]] of [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]].
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