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Yet five centuries after the Indiansâ fateful meeting with Columbus, elements of their culture endureâin the genetic heritage of modern Antilleans, in the persistence of Taino taÃ­no words and in isolated communities where people carry on traditional methods of, architecture, farming fishing and. healing
The Spanish and Portuguese Conquest of the Americas. In 1484 Christopher Columbus tried unsuccessfully to interest King John II of Portugal in voyages of discovery to the west. Columbus then offered his services in leading such an explatory voyage to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of what later became Spain.here Columbus lost his flagship, the Santa Maria. He then returned to Spain to report his findings. When word of Columbus' discoveries reached Portugal its king charged the Spanish with encroachment into the Portuguese realm. Ferdinand and Isabella then appealed to the Pope in Rome, who was in origin a Spaniard.