Hmm, let's see.
500 years ago, that means year 1525. Let me check how my country, Spain, was doing that year.
February 24: In Pavia (Italy), Spanish troops under the command of Charles V defeat the French forces at the Battle of Pavia and capture their king, Francis I.
February 28: In Mexico, Hernán Cortés executes Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor.
April 1: First founding of the town of San Salvador, present-day capital of El Salvador.
July 29: In what is now the territory of Colombia, the adelantado from Seville, Rodrigo Galván de Bastidas, founds the city of Santa Marta.
And the map was something like this:
Oh, yes! It seems like a good deal tbh.