First of all, King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of
             Castille got married in 1464. The main reason that they got married was
             to unite their kingdoms into Spain. The king and queen were Roman
             Catholic, so they gave power to certain people to convert non-Catholics to
             Catholicism. In 1482, the Roman Catholic monarchs renew the reconquista,
             the military crusade ordered to conquer the remaining Muslim state in
             Iberia, Granada. In 1492, the Roman Catholic monarchs ordered all
             non-converted Jews expelled from Spain.
             In April, 1492, Spain received reports that the Portuguese
             succeeded in reaching the Indian Ocean, therefore Spanish monarchs
             authorized Christopher Columbus to sail to Asia and establish trade and
             start to convert natives to Christianity. The reasons that the monarchs
             let Columbus sail were mainly to search for spices and profits, spread
             Christianity, and to use some of their new technology like the caravel.
             Columbus would receive one-tenth of all the profits, and governance of the
             new lands would be shared by the monarchs and by Columbus.
             There were mainly three different types of natives who lived in
             the Caribbean. There were the Ciboneys (in Cuba), Caribs (in the lesser
             Antilles), and Taino-Arawaks (in the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispanola,
             and Puerto Rico). The population of the Caribbean Islands was probably
             not too much more than 1,500,000 of which about 1,000,000 lived mainly in
             Hispanola. Hispanola was the center of Taino culture. Between 1509 and
             1520, the demand for native labor increased and the native population
             steeply decreased. Here is a table of how rapidly the population of the
             1492- 1,000,000 (about) 1514- 28,000
             By the 1540's the native population of the Tainos did not even exceed
             In October 1492, Columbus's ships were bound for Japan, China, and
             the Indies, but they arrived in the Bahamas. In May 1493, Columbus...