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It affected the people... for the worst. Those that didn't die of European-brought diseases like smallpox, were either massacred or enslaved by the conquistadors. Also their culture was wiped out, or at the very least, merged with the already-existing Spanish culture, the most prominent example of these being the Mexican culture.

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