How did Spanish conquest affect the Indians of the Americas?

Answer 1

The Spanish conquest affected the Native Americans in a devastating way. Due to the violence of the wars fought against the Spanish, Spanish abuse of their subjects during their rule of American lands, and the western diseases transmitted by Spanish soldiers. merchants, and settlers, the Natives suffered huge population losses. At the same time, their general culture was dismantled, with mere pieces being carried forward in the creation of a new Spanish-American civilization.

Answer 2

After certain Spanish explorers such as Christopher Columbus began discovering new pieces of land, such as the Americas, Spanish settlers began to arrive in native territory. However, as these settlers came in the natives were forced to change many of their traditions, rituals, and in total their religion and culture. Also, the native tribes had to deal with sharp declines to their populations due to fatal diseases the Spanish brought to them that they were not yet immune to.

Along with diseases, Christopher Columbus brought something else new to the natives; slavery.

Also, some tribes would use human sacrifice to honor their gods which -to the spanish- seemed to be witchcraft or devil's work. After seeing such rituals where the priest would hold down the human being sacrificed only so they could have their hearts cut out didn't really seem inviting to the Spanish. So, they burnt many of their manuscripts and for some tribes such as the Mayans, their prophecies.

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Native Americans weren't subjected to slavery after the initial period of conquest: rather they suffered under a particularly harsh form of serfdom which disrupted communities and families. The real killer was disease to which the native population had no immunity, though high estimates of more than 90% population decline are probably inflated.

Answer 3

When the Spanish settled the Aztec and Incan lands, their plan was to conquer the land.

When conquistadors came in the early 1500s (Hernando Cortez being the first, followed by Francisco Pizarro), they made the Native Americans allies at first; then slaves.

Cortez sided with one tribe of Native Americans against the Aztecs, which he used as an advantage.

After he had taken down the Aztec empire with the help of the Native Americans, he and his fellow comrades killed, raped, and enslaved the Native Americans.

Pizarro did basically the same thing, but with the Incan kingdom in the Andes mountains.

Furthermore, one of the most important advantages the Spaniards had and what brought the empires down and eventually started the slave trade were the diseases the Europeans had brought with them.

Since the Native Americans had never been exposed to these diseases, they died out quickly, leaving few Native American people left.

Some other ways they died out was because they were being worked and starved to death on plantations the Spanish had settled when they arrived in the new land.

Answer 4

After certain Spanish explorers such as Christopher Columbus began discovering new pieces of land, such as the Americas, Spanish settlers began to arrive in native territory. However, as these settlers came in the natives were forced to change many of their traditions, rituals, and in total their religion and culture. Also, the native tribes had to deal with sharp declines to their populations due to fatal diseases the Spanish brought to them that they were not yet immune to.

Along with diseases, Christopher Columbus brought something else new to the natives; slavery.

Also, some tribes would use human sacrifice to honor their gods which -to the spanish- seemed to be witchcraft or devil's work. After seeing such rituals where the priest would hold down the human being sacrificed only so they could have their hearts cut out didn't really seem inviting to the Spanish. So, they burnt many of their manuscripts and for some tribes such as the Mayans, their prophecies.

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Native Americans weren't subjected to slavery after the initial period of conquest: rather they suffered under a particularly harsh form of serfdom which disrupted communities and families. The real killer was disease to which the native population had no immunity, though high estimates of more than 90% population decline are probably inflated.