A majority of the people in Central America and South America speak Spanish today
The negative outcomes were that many Natives in these lands were killed (either intentionally or unintentionally, most likely by foreign disease), brought into slavery, or displaced. The Europeans used an act of Social Darwinism on the Natives which is basically them acting superior over the others.
DIsease,slavery,massacres,forced assimilation,ethic cleansing,lies,and disorted history
If Spain wouldn't of colonized countries in South América,they would have no spanish language or cultures
There cultures and belifes
i dont kno dats why im askin u
The Arawak Indians
In Canada, the indigenous people are called First Nations' Peoples.
The MaoriThe Maori are New Zealand's first nation peoples.
It is a policy which was usually forced upon indigenous peoples to change them into their European or European-American counterparts. White people felt that natives needed to be civilized according to their values and they also felt that natives could not assimilate into white cultures unless they acted like they were white.
The compass effected exploration because without it, exploration would not have been possible to the early peoples. The compass was invented in China, and some of the earliest explorers were in Egypt. :)
Christopher Columbus is widely accepted to be the first European to meet North America's indigenous peoples. Native Americans are the indigenous peoples of North America. I don't know how to properly refer to the indigenous peoples of Australia.
Mestizos
Huge numbers of indigenous peoples were wiped out by European diseases.
By trading with them, indigenous peoples would be exposed to those who preached the European religion.
Europeans sought to spread their religion to indigenous peoples in the Americas through preaching trade and taking over indigenous peoples lands
When the first Europeans arrived in North America their system of government differed from that of the indigenous peoples. The Europeans used a hierarchy of government. The indigenous people had a cultural government.
Huge numbers of indigenous peoples were wiped out by European diseases.
Huge numbers of indigenous peoples were wiped out by European diseases.
The mestizo population in Latin America emerged as a result of the blending of European colonizers (mostly Spanish) and indigenous peoples. This blending occurred during the colonial period when European settlers came into contact with the native populations of the Americas. The term mestizo specifically refers to individuals with mixed European and indigenous ancestry.
Native peoples can be called indigenous.
They are the aboriginal, indigenous peoples of North, Central and South America.
Central America is a very cosmopolitan area due to it's strategic and commercial importance. They have indigenous peoples, but really, we were all Africans at one point in time.