While in Mexico, he destroyed the mosques and idols that the Aztecs worshiped. He cleaned down the places where sacrifices took place and put up Christian images (DOC 4). A former conquistador, who converted into a Catholic Monk, shot down the actions of the Spaniards, because he believed that their actions couldn’t and shouldn’t be justified by their religion (DOC 9). Bartolommeo
The Native Americans started becoming less and less powerful towards the Europeans, there population was small to begin with and with the epidemics diseases and the land and food shortages, they were almost wiped out of there population. The surviving Natives either converted to Christianity and joined puritan communities, to alcoholism, would sell most of there land to the Europeans and drove others to war. The Native Americans was in much struggle not just against the European empires but also between the new European immigrants. The Europeans had quickly established there dominance, displacing natives until they had created societies that were dominated entirely by the Europeans. As the Natives did not know about 'nations' the Europeans had came from a world where 'Formal institution and military power of a nation or empire governed the relationship between societies'.
One of Columbus’s famous ideas was his idea about the route to Asia. “Columbus proposed an entirely new train of thought to discover a way to Asia.” Sailing towards the West to reach the East(Ghare). I admire Columbus for the fact that he was able to stand up to the European aristocrats and disprove their theory of the flat Earth. Columbus was primarily hindered by the fact that no monarch was ready to take a huge gamble on Columbus' ambitious plan. Columbus
While in the West Indies, he participated in Indian wars and acquired land and slaves. Although, he had been ordained as a priest he didn’t find anything wrong with his actions. I believe the horrific actions he witnessed while in the West Indies made him realize that his previous actions were not acceptable nor were the Spaniards actions towards the natives. He realized that the people he once enslaved were human as well and were more than capable of believing and practicing the Christian faith. He hoped that by keeping documentation of his experiences would one day lead to the royal
The Columbus’ voyage in 1492 convinced Spain that it could dominate the New World. The first Spanish explorers, such as Cortes and Balboa, were satisfied with their findings in Central America. However, Ponce de Leon, the governor of Puerto Rico, set his sights on expanding the new Spanish empire to northern America. He sailed to Florida, but was killed by natives in 1521. After several other failed Spanish attempts to colonize North America, Hernan de Soto finally arrived in 1539 with a
Here is a quote from the video clip called “History’s Turning Point – The conquest of the Incas” which is an evidence of this Spanish attitude towards the Native Americans. “I will subject you to the authority of the church and to the king. If you do not respect my authority, you will suffer from great damage.” One of the examples of the Spanish taking advantage of the Native Americans would be slavery. Many of the Native Americans were traded and were forced to labor for the
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE USA By Tim Lambert PART ONE COLONIAL AMERICA THE FIRST COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA The first Europeans to establish colonies in North America were the Spanish. In 1526 a Spaniard called Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon attempted to found a colony in Carolina. (He also brought the first black slaves to North America). However the attempt failed. Many Spaniards died of disease and the survivors abandoned the colony.
One of those things was to take complete control of all the land. They continued to expand their land into areas that were still inhabited by Indians. For a while, Englishmen tried soft tactics, but since Indians were not willing to give up their lands easily, the answer became annihilation. Englishmen’s views concluded that Indians were savages, and they had no right to own or exist on lands that God had given to the white men. Indians throughout were forced to surrender their lands, and although they put up resistance, it was not enough to stop settlers’ expansion and the Indian’s lands were violently taken, and many were killed in the process.
Documents prove that the British intentionally killed off the buffalo in areas populated by the Native Americans. By doing this, the British took away their main source of food. Starvation occurred in many villages and the Natives population had reduced from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900. Villages were pillaged, and prisoners were sent to camps or reservations. The British’s actions were rationalized through religion, Indians were seen as savages that needed to convert and those who didn’t were murdered.
RELIGION IN AMERICA – MIDTERM REVIEW Cultural misunderstandings in the encounter between Native American religions and Colonial missionaries - Native Americans thought they were themselves guests of the land so how could anyone say you own the land. - When the Europeans came to the New World they wanted to enforce Christianity on the Native Americans. The Church and priests took this as they were converting. But converting means changing your ways and the Native Americans would not change their spiritual lifestyle. The two groups went to war and the Native Americans targeted and killed many priests.