This is Angela Odell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical world view perspective.

Welcome to an adventure!

Welcome to episode 96 of Real Cool History for Kids.

The topic of this episode is one that was requested by a whole group of listeners, all

right around the same time.

So this episode about the Alamo is for Liberty, Emily, Nicholas and Clara Lega, and it's

for Deacon Clark, Juliet Holcomb, and Walter Dawkins.

I hope you all enjoy this episode.

Back in the time period, we called the Age of Exploration.

When the empires of Europe were sending explorers and settlers to the continents of North and

South America, Spain claimed large areas of land in Central and South America.

These continents were new to the Europeans, but of course they weren't really new at all.

They had been inhabited to some extent for hundreds and hundreds of years, ever since

people groups had come there during the Great Migration after the Tower of Babel.

The English, French, and the Dutch competed over vast sections of land in North America

in order to set up their colonies.

Meanwhile Spain set up their colonies and established their missions.

Quite honestly, this time period is extremely complex and takes a great deal of study to

completely understand.

So what we're going to focus on today is the fact that Spain had created Central and South

American colonies as part of its vast empire, starting back in the early 1500s.

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