10 pts and brainest ! ! question: for each event, write one to two sentences explaining why the event is an important historical event. you may include details about how the event impacted the different groups living in the americas. an event that benefited one group may have proven disastrous to another group. 1. 1492 christopher columbus reaches the americas 2. 1512 spanish take the first african slaves to hispaniola 3. 1519 cortés arrives in tenochtitlan 4. 1521 cortés defeats the aztecs 5. 1527 bartolome de las casas argues against enslavement of native americans

1. he was one of the first europeans to set foot in america. without this period in history, we may have never had immigrants, let alone discovered america.2. the islands were producing far more agriculturally at this time then the mainland, so it make sense that the first african slaves went to hispaniola. the crops that were being grown during the 16th and 17 century in this area were very labor intensive. due to disease and all that, that native taino population on the island was wiped out and it was therefore necessary for the spanish plantation owners to look elsewhere for cheap labor. the beginning of the slave trade comes about after pretty much the same sequence of events everywhere in the americas, just at different times. need for increased labor --> loss of native population from disease --> slave trade3.hernando cortés was a spanish explorer and conquistador who landed on the coast of mexico in 1519. cortés traveled over one hundred miles inland to find the city and claim the empire for spain.that's all i got for