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Spanish explorers in the Americas had several conflicts with Native Americans, including clashes over land and resources, cultural differences and misunderstanding, forced labor and enslavement, and diseases brought by the Europeans that decimated indigenous populations. These conflicts often led to violence, colonization, and the disruption of Native American societies.
Friendly native
they talk different languages
Some came to America to find a shorter distance from Spain to India, such as Christopher Columbus. Others came to find for "Cities of Gold" such as Hernán Cortez & Francisco Pizarro. Others came as a missionary mission to convert Native Americans to Christianity such as Serra Junipero. Most of these explorers would also claim the land they found to be property of the Spanish crown.
European explorers in the 1400's to the 1600's traded with the native Americans in the Bahama's. Europeans would trade cows, pigs, horses, sugarcane, and would deliver smallpox. the Indians would trade them turkey, corn, and other Natural Resources.
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The Native Americans helped the Spanish Explorers but sometimes they slaved the Spanish EXAMPLE: Cabeza De Vaca (A SPANISH EXPLORER) was captured by the Karankawa tribe but helped and fed by other Native American tribes.
The early Spanish explorers.
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The Portuguese and Spanish explorers and conquistadors built their New World empires by suppressing the Native Americans.
largely successful because they built close ties with Native Americans.
Many historians believe that Spanish expeditions in the 16th century that reached into what is now Tennessee may have been to prevent Native Tribes there to end their conflicts with Natives that were friendly towards Spanish explorers.
Spanish brought small pox
ya but werent native Americans there first??
The Spanish had slaves in North America in the 1500's. Columbus made 1500 Native Americans slaves and the other explorers also made Native Americans slaves.
the native americans created fur trade with europeans and the explorers later then kicked the native americans and brought viruses
The main goals of the Spanish explorers were to establish a foothold in the New World. In addition to acquiring new lands, the explorers set out to expand their empire. This was done by building trade and commerce with the local natives, along with converting many of them to Catholicism. Sadly, there were many native and Spanish conflicts that led to mass bloodshed across the continent.
it caused sickness from the explorers