Spain to America (western Catholic expansion)

Era

Spanish became a major world language through colonization, and Spanish missionaries helped preserve and spread indigenous languages by creating dictionaries and translating religious texts.
Literature and arts: The Spanish Golden Age produced world-renowned authors like Miguel de Cervantes and painters like Diego Velázquez.
The Spanish were a major force in spreading Roman Catholicism globally, establishing churches, missions, and dioceses.
They founded schools and universities, both for the Spanish elite and for indigenous populations, which helped spread literacy and new ideas. There is still in Toledo an old rite (prior to the Roman rite) used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozarabic_Rite

Name of Era	Text Chapter	Ranged Years
Spain to America (western Catholic expansion)	Missionary work and establishment of Catholic institutions in places like North, Central, and South America	1520-1826 AD

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