The Colonization Of South America

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There were initially two to ten million natives in the United States prior to European contact. Those numbers dwindled down drastically in the years that Europeans came and started colonizing. The Europeans came to explore the New World in search of land, spices, gold, God and glory. Among these colonists were the Spanish and they colonized most of the southwest of the United States. Evidence of their settlements can still be seen today in the missions scattered across the land. These missions were started with the purpose of converting the Native Americans to Christianity. Now, imagine living your entire life with a particular set of beliefs, based on your ancestors and culture, and a group of foreigners come and proclaim that your views are all wrong and that you must follow their beliefs for the salvation of your soul. This is exactly what the Spanish did to the Natives. The relationship between the two parties were strained and rife with tension due to the conversion of the natives and the constant abuse doled out by the Spanish. This subsequently led to the disintegration of native life and culture.

The Spanish exploration of America brought many new foods, types of plants, and many forms of wealth to the European world. However, the wealth that was brought from the Americas came at a cost. The suffering and enslavement of the Native people and the transportation of Africans to America to be used as slaves alongside the Natives. Many motivations were used to support this extraction of wealth and treatment of the Natives and Africans, however two are easily verifiable. The Spanish colonization from 1492 to 1700 was motivated by religious conversion of all peoples in America and the desire for wealth and profit that had a significant impact on the lives of Native Americans and Africans.

When the Spanish and the Portuguese established the colonies in the Americas, not only did they bring their material culture of technologies, clothes, cuisines, architecture, crops, and animals but they also brought their intellectual traditions such as that of honor. The history of colonial Latin America gives many questions related to the understanding of honor. The culture of honor during this period of time was pivotal as it provided a set of values that organized society and individual lives. Legal codes, social gatherings, seating arrangements were all mixed in with cultural meanings, which helps define status within a system of honor. Honor is also seen within fiction produced from the colonial Latin American period with the production of work such as Don Juan Tenorio and Don Quixote. These dramatic works glorify the chivalric tradition of honor, romanticizing it and creating a flattering fiction that the elite of colonial Latin America found convenient to strive for. Literary critics and cultural historians have studied the structure honor code of this period closely and in this book it can also be seen that honor can be irrationally inflexible, cruel and especially oppressive toward those of lower class, “tainted” lineage and female gender during this time. In this book, The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America, scholars Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett Rivera take on the difficult but exciting task of trying to define the idea and

One of the major countries to colonize in the Americas was Spain. Spain would actually go on to conquer and colonize many areas and establish one of the largest empires in all of the Americas. But the way in which they went about doing so was completely unnecessary according to Bartolome de Las Casas. Bartolome actually wrote “In Defense of the Indians which was one of the first works in which a person from a colonizing nation argued for the rights of the indigenous people (Indians or Native Americans in this case) of the region that was being

The expansion into the Americas by the Europeans can both be celebrated and regretted, for different reasons. In this essay, we will first briefly lay out the history of the discoveries and the expansion, and then debate the outcomes, both good and bad, for both sides, the natives and the europeans.

I believe Spain should not colonize on Hispana because even though the men will gain

Some natives from Latin America may disagree with the idea of the conquistadores? influence being beneficial. They remark that all that the Spanish brought was sickness and disease which the Latin American natives had little or no immunity to, causing great numbers of death in the population (Wood). They also claim that Spaniards took advantage of

Throughout history, the enslavement of native peoples around the world has been a driving force in what makes the great nations today. Unfortunately, this practice has also practically destroyed the lives of billions, and the nations that practiced it benefited from the pain and suffering of the lives it took. Four documents highlight the behavior of the Europeans towards the natives of South America, creating an insight into the shocking behaviors that were practiced to exert control over a very innocent people.

Over the course of the past half-millennium, the 33 countries that now comprise Latin America and the Caribbean have gone through drastic change. Since the discovery of the New World in 1492, each country has gone through some level of colonization by a European power and transition to its current state. During this period the regions have seen political, social, religious and economic transformations of various degrees.

It is the year 2030 everything is changing the governments globally are tearing apart. And so many countries are at war, America is willing to go on and help the people who are in need by colonizing countries/continents. But It’s now up to me as a member of the government committee to approve whether or not America as a nation should go in to colonizing the continent of South America. As a result of what happened in Africa between the 1870s and 1900, The United States should not colonize developing continents like South America because the citizens will their lose freedom, resources and traditional cultures

The history of the Americas has certainly seen its fair share of violence since the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Much of this violence, though certainly not all, has been inflicted upon the native peoples of North, Central, and South America. European colonization of these lands has had immense and broad adverse effects on the people already residing there; some of these effects were calculated by the Europeans, while some were not. Among some of the calculated effects were extreme and heinous acts of violence towards natives and theft of native land. Some of the effects the Europeans did not foresee were the diseases that would wreak havoc on the natives and the depletion of Native American culture.

The expansive empires of the Aztecs and Incas, came crashing down, upon the arrival of Spaniards in the New World. The birth of colonial nations came about in the same stride that death came to indigenous populations. Modern Latin America has conflict built into its system because that is what it has mostly seen for the past five hundred years. In Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, John Charles Chasteen supports the argument that Latin America's problems developed due to its violent origins and history of conquest. From the conquest, through colonialism and revolutions, to modern day, violence has always been a main player in the advancement of Latin America. Chasteen has left me with a greater comprehension of our

Studying history is a wonderful way of becoming less ignorant. Ignorance of other peoples and cultures and created the european attitude of superiority that characterized early colonization of the Americans and later imperialism. In the debates between Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, we can see ideas that created and are informed by some of the horrible concepts of imperialism, such as eugenics and natural slavery. These debates arose after Las Casas took a moral objection to the treatment of the native population on the island of Hispaniola and returned to Rome to begin an effort to end the encomienda system. (Bartolomé de Las Casas debates) This system granted conquistadors and and number of slaves in exchange for his service as a soldier or official. (Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda) Las Casas argued that the encomiendas were unlawful and that it was “impossible for them [the conquest of the Indies] not to be, tyrannies, unjust and iniquitous.” (Bartolomé de Las Casas.)

“Open Veins of Latin America”, by Eduardo Galeano tells the story of the history of both Latin America and parts of the Caribbean throughout the years and their struggle with poverty and the powers who exploited the countries throughout their existence from the day they were conquer by Europeans and as the years went by. The book begins with the history of the conquest of the new land and the search for both gold and silver, how the Europeans enslaved of the Native Americans and how their population declined at the time. Along with the slavement of the Natives and the search for gold, the conquistadors also brought diseases with them which caused many of the Natives to died, thus decreasing their population, the main cause being small pox. However one thing that Galeano tries to make clear is that is that although the conquistadors were in search of wealth, it is unclear is they actually benefited from all the goods that were taken out of the new world, but that instead it created a tradition of goods being imported to parts of Europe.