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The Spanish had a profound effect on the native population of the Americas. They initially enslaved the natives via the encomienda, destroyed native cultures through the Missions, pillaged their kingdoms, and brought diseases the natives had no immunity against.
The Spanish actually treated the Native Americans badly. They enslaved them and then took mostly all their tools. The Spanish conquistadors were interested in sending the gold & silver that the Aztecs and Inca Native Americans had acquired. They made war on the tribes they encountered. The Spanish explorers/conquistadors made extensive missions into the South West of the Northern Hemisphere. They came to the western coast of what is now California. They also moved south from Mexico and overwhelmed the Incas in South America. The Spanish found out that the Native Americans made poor slaves. They ended up killing many of the native tribes they encountered. Let me add that the largest prize in South America was Brazil. In this area the Portuguese dominated the native tribes they encountered.
No one is making excuses for the actions of the Spaniards, and it is all to easy to look back with hindsight 20-20 vision & view their actions based on current morals. This was a new game of sorts to Spain, and what may have passed as "ok" in the 16th century was no less cruel than the actions of countries in Europe when they were at war with each other.
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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.
In the Southwestern area of North America they enslaved the Native Americans they found and made them work gold and silver mines. Missions were built to convert the Native Americans and to establish a Spanish foothold in the area. Disease, mistreatment, and abuse killed many that came into contact. One major change was the Spanish introduced the horse to North America and this changed the lifestyle of the Native Americans.
they changed it pretty dramatically through genocide and the introduction of diseases.
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How did the conquest by the spanish change life for the native peoples?
they shot the leader wit a nine
What aspect of native American life was the Dawes act designed to change?
The Dawes Act eliminates the lack of private property and the nomadic tradition
What was the dawes act 1887 meant to do?
destroy traditional native american life
Why did native American lose their way of life?
Native Americans lose their way of life because the English were interested in settling the land and farming it, but that was the land that the Native Americans would not be able to use for hunting or growing their own food.
Describe life in a spanish colony for the owner of an ecomedia a native americanan enslaved African?
the native Americans on the land had to work for the new owner, and the colonist agreed to house and feed them
What the native American children do at the mission?
The Native American kids went to Spanish school in the Church room where they learned the Spanish Ways of life.
How did the arrival of the Spanish change life for native American?
Those who would not convert to Christianity were killed, unless they could escape. Those who survived became virtual slaves.
How did europeans change native American ways of life?
Thay dident!
What part of the native Americans way of life did spanish missionaries try to change most?
religion
What was one change in the way of life for Native Americans after Spanish and French came to this region?
I don’t know
How did farming change the way of life for Native Americans?
how did farming change the life of native americans
Where did the quote A life lived in fear is a life half lived come from?
I've heard that it is a Spanish proverb and also a Native American proverb.
What were Native Americans life like?
the native American life SUKED!!!!!!!!!!!!
How did the conquest by the spanish change life for the native peoples?
they shot the leader wit a nine
Countries that have had local culture changed by an invasion?
Almost every country in the world has had culture change due to an invasion. For example, in the United States, the Native American way of life was completely changed by the invasion of the British and Spanish settlers.
How did Native Americans life's changed after the Spanish did what?
The enslaved them
What were some of the jobs the Indians did at the mission?
The Native Americans cleaned the floors, cooked, worked the agriculture of the area, and tended to the livestock of the Spanish missions.
