How did the lives of native people change after the arrival of the Spanish in the Americas?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, for most native Americans the arrival of the settlers was perhaps the worst event in their history. Like their south american counterparts, the Aztec and Maya, most were almost totally wiped out by the foreigners. This may have been to spread Christianity.

Not all bad however, some of the more powerful tribes like the Iroquois were able to strike deals with the french and English These soon ended after the american revolution, as the new government, led by heroic, yet racist, George Washington, was far less tolerant of the 'barbarians'.

Answer 2

In Mexico, the most of settlers from Spain were conquerors who were seduced by the promise of unbelievable wealth (example: gold). So, when they meet the Aztec Empire, they tried to get all that wealth. The implications of it were massacres. The conquerors were also transmitters of illnesses that native americans didn't know, so, their inmunological defenses were not able to protect them.

Answer 3

Native Americans lived many ways depending on the tribe and location. The empire that the Jamestown men landed in was very organized and laid out. They had methods to grow crops, hunting methods, government, and they took care of the land. There were 14,000 people living in the area in 1607 and the addition of the 106 men meant very little at first since they settled on the worse land in the area, but they will eventually change the lives of the Native Americans.

Answer 4

The lives that changed with the arrival of the Europeans was the Native Americans. They were enslaved, given diseases, and discriminated against. The Spanish padres goals were to convert them and enslave them at the missions. In the second voyage of Columbus he made 1200 Native Americans slaves and sent 500 to Spain. From the first moment of the first European encounters with Native Americans their world was gone.

Answer 5

Native Americans were invaded by the Europeans. They were exposed to new diseases, lands taken away from them, killed, had environmental terrorism practiced against them with non native plants, animals, and insects. They were removed from ancestral lands to reservations, had food sources like the buffalo killed in mass, and promises broken by the government. They lost lives that has gone on for thousands of years years to people who thought they were better and practiced genocide against a whole people.

Answer 6

they changed it dramatically through introduction of diseases

Answer 7

The settlers made the Native Americans move farther out west and kept on moving them until the government made special reservations for the N.A to stay at

Answer 8

Diseases

Answer 9

genocide