They either a) enslaved them, converting them into the Spanish religion and using Spanish language and customs or b) killed them. That is why it is called "the conquest of Mexico".
No the first besides natives were Spanish and lived in florida
Hernando Cortes was the first man to discover the land of Mexico. Pretty harsh man, too. A killer. A weasel! He tricked the natives in their own town into taking disease filled food, water, blankets and ecedera. He was one of the Spanish conquestidors of spain.
Most of the citizens of Mexico speak Spanish as their first language. The Spanish language was brought to Mexico in the 16th century.
They treated Natives horribly, one infamous example was the outright genocide of the Natives in Cuba, Dominica, and Mexico. Slavery, murder, including the abusive churches that had a tendency to torture and execute Natives who refused to convert to Christianity. Juan de Onate, first governor of New Mexico was known for hacking off the legs of Pueblos who refused to pay his hefty tax or refused to embrace The Bible.
There were two easternmost Spanish settlements on the northern frontier of Spanish Mexico. The first settlement was Mexico City, and the second was the Yucatan.
Yes, they were
Spaniards, but they did not only "visited" Mexico, they also conquered it.
The Spanish.
When Francisco Vazquez de Coronado first explored these lands, on 1542. The first Spanish settlements on New Mexico was the San Juan de los Caballeros colony, founded by Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate in 1598.
The term "Hispanos" traditionally refers to people of Spanish descent living in the southwestern United States, particularly in New Mexico. They are descendants of the original Spanish settlers in the region.
Since the first years Mexico became a Spanish colony in the Americas (1521). That is one example of the traditions brought to Mexico by the Spanish.
Mexico