How Did Spain Encounter Native Americans

The Spanish reacted peacefully to the lifestyle of the Natives. For example, when they established their rule in America, they did not destroy and ruin the culture and heritage of the Native Americas.Also, intermarriages between the Spanish and the Native Americans became very common since many Spanish conquistadors were males in their 20s. As a result of intermarriage, a new ethnicity was formed; this ethnicity was called mestizos. Mestizos established a cultural peace between the Spanish and the Natives. Culturally, the Spanish and the Natives lived in tranquility.

The final Spanish conquistadors’ motive that greatly affected the people living in the new world was glory. This motive is plain to see in documents 3 and 5. In document three Cortez talks about how the war that he and his men are fighting in will bring them fame. In document five it’s the same thing it is Cortez who is plowing through the Indians land conquering everybody for respect in Spain. Now when you look at how did this affect the Native Americans you see that the Spanish conquistadors’ obsession with glory ended up harming Indians because the Spanish wanted conquer Indian lands so that they could win respect back in Spain.

The French experienced the best relationship with the natives as they were very cooperative with the Natives, peacefully tried to convert them and married Native women and integrated with them. The Spanish came behind the French as they integrated with them as well however they were much more violent in exploiting them for resources through systems like the encomienda system. However, the English had the most tarnished relationship with the Natives as they looked to expand at the Natives expense and saw the Natives as inferiors.

One of the weaknesses of this book was the way in which a strong opinion of the author frequently came to the surface. The impression given when reading was one of bias in that the Spanish were wrong to come in and refine everything. This was reflected in the fact that periodically within the book, when the Spanish conquistadors did something to the Indians, it was pointed out how inhumane it was. Yet, when the Indians retaliated in some way, it was quickly pointed out how justified they were. The mentioned advantages that the Indians gained through the Spaniards were infrequent and underdeveloped.

The desire to hunt and trade with the Europeans caused controversy with the French. Each wanted to gain control over the trade. The French stepped in and told other tribes to interfere whenever necessary. Of course the Iroquois fought the French back. The Five Nations attacked the Huron Indians and their French Jesuit teachers, causing the Huron Indians to relocate near Quebec. The French counter attacked and finally the Iroquois agreed to a peace treaty in 1669 lasting 16 years.

The actions of the Europeans nations like the Spanish and the many others were to most importantly colonize the New World and gather valuable resources there. It wasn’t until the Europeans and more specifically Cortes and Francisco did their actions become taking down the two major civilizations in the New World. These two and their actions had a great impact on the culture and the economy of the two civilizations that completely changed the course of history. Not only were the men able to defeat the Incas and the Aztecs they completely took over the areas and were able to eliminate the two greatest kings in the nation. Even though they did have a little advantage when it came to firepower these two were smart enough to trick the leaders and allow themselves to conquer theses civilizations in a short span of time.

After Columbus discovery of New World in 1492 and discover of gold and silver in the 1500s by Cortez and Pizarro, many Europeans countries began to build an empire or settlement in the New World. Since the Spanish has the most powerful and advanced sea power, they are the first one to do so . England was the only country that can compete with the Spanish on sea power. When England see the Spanish start to built empire in the New World and gained a lot wealth from the Indians, they began to colonize the New World land too. After the Spanish and English entered the New World land, they destroyed Indians religion and community; however, the relationships the Spanish had with the Indians is slightly different from the English.

They used the Indians to expand their society through different strategies with the fur trade. In 1608 Samuel de Champlain created the settlement of Quebec on an important river known at the St. Lawrence where he could appropriate the traffic in fur trades. He then created and alliance with the Huron Indians because they maintained access to the plentiful fur grounds of the Great Lakes. To get even closer to the tribe in 1609 and 1610 Champlain joined them in making war on the Five Nation Iroquois Confederacy. Agents and traders lived among the native people where they learned their customs, language, and conducted the progress of furs being sent to Quebec. The population during this time increased slowly because New France was entirely Catholic. Both the French and Spanish were a lot alike in the sense that they both included Indians in their societies but were very different in how they did it. The French built an alliance and the Spanish were more forceful and

Additionally, what else helped the Spaniards easily to conquer the American Indians were the people of Tlaxcala. They paid them amazing privileges, took care of their each need, joined with them as associates and even gave them their daughters. At that time the Tlaxcaltecas were enemies of Cholula. So, they wanted to defeat them, therefore, they brought convinced rumors to Cortes. Then, the Cortes decided to conquer the people of Cholula with the guidance of Tlaxcaltecas. They succeeded because the people of Cholula were not prepared well and didn’t expected it. After that, the Spaniards wanted to raise soldiers against the Culhuas Mexicanos (Aztects), and they did this in a brief timeframe to give them no chance to structure a collusion with

When the Spanish first came to the Native American civilizations, they brought along infectious diseases with them, that the Natives were not used to, which ended up killing most of the Natives. The Europeans had better weapons as well, so it was easier to enslave the Natives and succumb them to more disease. So, it was an epidemic of the highest

The driving factors for the exploration were New Mexico having silver and riches as well as religious advantages. Spaniards thought that occupying New Mexico would keep their rivals away because they thought there was a water passage. The impact of Spanish exploration on Native Americans was negative. Many tribes endured violence and raids, so some more aggressive tribes would attack first. The Apache’s would go in and kill Spaniards that were trying to settle and in return, Spaniards would have slave raids.

There is a well known, and even cliche, proverb that says, "don't bring a knife to a gunfight." In the case of the Spanish and the Natives, this can be taken quite literally. I agree that the element of surprise had massive impact on how successful the spaniards were, but in the end, the brute force that they used was one of the largest factors in the natives defeat. In the image that we annotated, it clearly shows natives launching arrows toward the ships. This means that they were not frozen in fear and attempted to defend themselves. I agree with Griffin in particular when it comes to Jared Diamond's diagram. Jared correctly highlights the factors that made the Europeans successful in the long run, but doesn't give enough credit to the powerful

This investigation will focus on the early 17th century and explore the question: Why did the French have better relations with the Native Americans than the English when colonizing Quebec and Massachusetts Bay Colony? With Quebec founded in 1608 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain and Massachusetts Bay colony established in 1630 by Englishman John Winthrop, investigating the development of these two colonies will allow a perceptive analysis of early European-Indian relations in North America to occur.

1. Three arguments’ that Juan Gines de Sepulveda used to justify enslaving the Native Americans were for gold, ore deposits, and for God’s sake and man’s faith in him. 2. Three arguments that Bartolome de las Casas gave in attacking Spanish clonial policies in the New World were the Indians eating human flesh, worshiping false gods, and also, he believed that the Indians were cowardly and timid. 3. For comparisons that Sepulveda used, in lines 1-7, to express the inferiority of the Indians was their prudence, skill virtues, and humanity were inferior to the Spanish as children to adults, or even apes to men. Comparisons he used to dismiss the significance of the Indians

The Spanish Conquests were led and completed by extraordinary, Spanish soldiers that received no help from translators as they obliterated the inferior, native culture! Right? Well, not quite. In fact, these are the very myths that Restall’s book sets out to disprove. From the time they were recorded in ink as primary sources to even now when historians heatedly debate historic events, facts have been misconstrued. Nevertheless, these biased stories have been blindly accepted as truth because sources were not cross-checked, inaccurate primary sources were accepted, and later history changed perceptions of earlier events. Most of the problems with primary sources stem from the Spanish playing down their mistakes and uncertainties and enhancing their successes in the foreign land. The continual reliability on just well-known, primary sources gives a very one-sided view of history which has spawned a plethora of inaccurate information. Readers should take away from Restall’s analyzation that just ordinary businessmen, along with indigenous groups and Africans sought riches in the Americas. While Conquistadors were there, they never reached full control over the natives, and rather than desolating the culture, Natives adapted and blended Spanish culture within their own. The Spanish were also not superior to the indigenous people, they just brought deadly diseases over that devastated native population numbers and had steel weapons that were critical in battle. Historians