The Spanish came to the new world in search of a new trade route to China, Japan, and India. When Cristobal Colon first arrived on the shores, he thought he had reached India. That is how the native American aborigines came to be called Indians. It was quickly realized that this land was in fact not Asia. The name Indian stuck, and to this day native Americans are still called Indians. The native Americans, or Indians were the victims of the conquerors. Even though the conquistadors knew they had not reached their original destination, they decided to take as many resources from the new land as they could. They immediately sized up the natives to be servants and laborers. Some of the natives became allies with the conquistadors against rival clans. The conquistadors did kill many of the natives in their quest for money, power, and religious domination. What really took the Indians out in astonishing numbers were the new diseases that the conquistadors brought with them such as small pox, measles, and a host of other diseases. The natives had no immunities to these new diseases which killed around 97% of them in the first 150 years.
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there is many different spanish conquistadors the most famous are cortez who defeated the Aztecs and Pizarro who defeated the Incas
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The Spanish intented to destroy their culture due to christnianisation. The Mayans were enslaved and abused. There were a few rebelions under the Spanish rule. Some Mayans left bigger aglomeration and settled on the countryside. Overall many Mayans live till today.
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there is many different spanish conquistadors the most famous are cortez who defeated the Aztecs and Pizarro who defeated the Incas
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The Aztecs were a huge empire and had many people and they could've easily ambushed Hernan Cortez and the other Spanish Conquistadors when they first arrived
The Indians were forced off their land, sometimes they were offered money, but mostly the resort was brute force. Many Cherokee Indians were forced off their native land this way, resulting in the Trail of Tears. The conquistadors (Spanish) were the main source of this and took many Indian slaves.
Many of the native American tribes who were already in the Americas were overthrown by the Europeans such as the aztects being overthrown by Spanish conquistadors.
There ARE many ethnic groups and cultures that were conquered by Spanish conquistadors from 1519 until the last Mayan city-states were conquered in the Yucatan peninsula in 1697. Some of them include the Mexicas (Aztecs), Zapotecs, Tlaxcalans and Mayans.
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The Aztecs fought with many tribes, including the Texlacans, the Huaxtec, the Purempecha, Mayans,and the spanish conquistadors