Regional1492 – 1504 · 12 years

Columbus Expeditions and Early Contact

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Caribbean · Hispaniola

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Columbus's four voyages to the Caribbean and introduction of European conquest. Initiated the catastrophic Columbian Exchange affecting all subsequent American history.

Belligerents2

Spain
Taíno peoples

ON THE MAPKingdom of Castile

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Vega Real1494

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Columbus Expeditions and Early Contact (1492 – 1504). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/americas-columbian-exchange-contact-1492 · Sources & methodology