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Many Native Americans converted to Christianity because they thought this was the only way to save themselves from dying from the Europeans' diseases. They also lost their religion. The 'encomienda' system (legalized slavery) also negatorily affected their simple way of life.
Many Native American populations were utterly destroyed by the Europeans' previously unknown diseases long before they ever actually laid eyes on them. Smallpox, chicken pox and the measles were unkown in North America before the Europeans' arrival.
Thanks to the "Mission System' employed by the Spanish Conquistadores, many Native American religious practices, customs, and uiltimately, languages were lost forever. Many Native Americans were virtually enslaved. Others were outright tricked and killed by the "civilized" intruders.
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∙ 14y agoi think that the Spaniards would have had a huge impact in the Mayan society. the Spaniards went into the villages and forced them into Catholicism and those whowouldn't comply were murdered. the Spaniards destroyed hundreds and thousands of the Mayan books, completely isolating the Mayans from their ancestry, believing that the books were just works of the devil and superstition.
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The Spanish conquered the Aztec and Inca civilizations. The Mayans, along with their advanced civilization had collapsed some 500 years before the Spanish arrived.
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∙ 9y agoI think that the Spaniards would have had a huge impact in the Mayan society. The Spaniards went into the villages and forced them into Catholicism and those who wouldn't comply were killed. The Spaniards burned and destroyed thousands of Mayan books this completely isolating the Mayans from their ancestry. The Spaniards believing that the books were just works of the devil and superstition.
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∙ 12y agothe spanish wanted to take over. so the Maya moved somewhere else because they knew the Spaniards were coming. But there is no clue or remains that let archaeologists know where they went.
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∙ 12y agoColonization affected mayan culture in a neggative way.
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What diseases killed 90 percent of the Maya after the spanish conquest?
Some wierd disease that the spanish called (spanish person)
Why did their civilization of Maya end?
No one is really sure why but it is known that the Spanish conquistadors came and conquered them and since the Maya were people that wanted peace they left and disappeared forever.
Did the ancient Maya use marijuana?
No. Cannabis was not introduced to the new world until the Spanish arrived.
Why did the Spanish make the Mayans become extinct?
They didn't. The Mayan's abandoned their cities 400 plus years before the Spanish arrived. The Spanish conquered the decendents of the ancient Maya and the Aztecs.
Which South American empires were destroyed by the Spanish?
The Spanish conquered the Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilization. The Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes and 800 men landed in Mexico in the 1500s and conquered the Aztec leader Montezuma and his people. Similarly, the Inca in Peru were vanquished by Francisco Pizarro in 1532. The Maya people had there codices, books, towns, and homes destroyed by the Spaniards as they advanced through Central America. The Maya lived in areas that extended from Mexico to Honduras.
Who spoke Spanish in ancient Maya?
Nobody spoke Spanish in "ancient" Maya. The Maya did not encounter Spanish until the 1500s, and "Maya" refers to a tribe, not a place.
What did the Maya do when the Spanish arrived?
When the Spanish arrived, the Maya initially welcomed them peacefully, but as the Spanish began to impose their rule and convert them to Christianity, many Maya groups rebelled and fought against Spanish conquest. This ultimately led to the downfall of the Maya civilization in the 16th century.
Why did the Spanish want to kill the Maya?
I thought it was actually the Aztecs who killed the Maya; the Aztecs to be killed, themselves, in due course by the Spanish.
How are ladinos different from the Maya in Guatemala?
ladinos are either of mixed Maya and spanish ancestry
Did the maya help the spanish defeat the aztecs?
no
What is the geography of the Maya and how did it effect the past?
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What is the effect of Maya Angelou's poetry?
people have changed
Why did the Maya disappeared?
No one knows why the Maya Disappeareither 1) the spanish killed them off2)not enough supplies3)disease
Why did the Maya number system not last?
When the Spanish came with the decimal number system, they replaced the Maya number system throughout the region. So the people of that region stopped using the Maya system and started using the decimal system of the Spanish.
What problems did the Maya Indians face?
The Maya Indians faced many suppression of their cultural heritage since the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s which includes having their land seized by the Spanish, being forced to convert to Christianity and Spanish laws forbade the Maya Indians to speak and write in their native language.
What diseases killed 90 percent of the Maya after the spanish conquest?
Some wierd disease that the spanish called (spanish person)
What happened to the Maya empire?
It got knocked down by the spanisH
