Mostly, they died of European diseases.
Small pox. The natives had no resistence to diseases the europeans carried to the new world.
the changes as the natives met the settlers is that they were nice then they found out what the natives did like sacrifices so they stared to get sacred and they put them to work so they wouldn't be next!!
Disease that the Spanish brought with them. It is shown in History (Spanish documents) that when they realized the "natives" couldn't handle illnesses that the Spanish were immune too, they purposely traded blankets they new would make the natives ill. Also through rape the Spanish gave the "natives" sexually transmitted disease that killed them by the thousands.
When the Europeans originally came to the New World and met the Native Americans, they were not armed with guns. The had bows and arrows, spears, and other similar weapons. They came to use guns afterwards, through the Europeans.
Yes, the Europeans did BRING the bible to the Americas, along with the majority of our culture.
europeans expected natives to become slaves and they wanted to spread their religious beliefs
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There were millions of people organized into different nations.
Small pox. The natives had no resistence to diseases the europeans carried to the new world.
Europeans did not ask permission from the natives to settle and claim land in the New World. However, this doesn't mean all Europeans had nasty relations with the natives. The Spanish were relatively harsh towards the natives, the French were relatively friendly towards the natives, and the British tried to keep their distance.
Slavery expanded when Natives were forced to work for Europeans and Africans were shipped to the New World. This did not happen during the Middle Ages, however; it happened during the Renaissance.
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Many cultures have a longstanding tradition of oral literature.
Disease came with the Europeans. The old world brought diseases to the new world and they had no natural immunity to them.
Two significant positive contributions Europeans brought to the New World were the wheel and horses. Europeans also brought diseases that the Natives in the New World have never been exposed to. The results were the deaths of many Native Americans
The goals of the colonists who came to New Spain was to search for gold. If need be, they would steal the gold from the natives.