But the situation was not always like that. Before the Gypsies were discriminated by the Spanish government and people causing them to live in misery. All of these events formed what is now the Gypsies history in Spain. The Gypsies migrated out of India to Europe in the XI century and mainly settled in Zaragoza the capital of Aragon. In 1492 when the Spanish were persecuting the Jews, Moors and ethnic groups other than Catholics out of the Iberian Peninsula the Gypsies were persecuted as well.
Columbus shouldn’t be idolized or be a hero. 3. He imprisoned many Indians and let them die. 4. His main goal was to find gold at any cost.
They would give them items such as alcohol, guns, textiles, metal tools, and pots in return for the elite furs. As the demand for furs rose, they began to corrupt the nature of animals that the Indians followed. Unknowingly the French also killed many natives through illness; the goods that the French offered to the natives carried diseases and led to the death of many Indians because of their lack of immunity. The relationship between the Spanish colonists and the Indians was a callous one and only benefited the Spanish. In the 1500s, the Spanish arrived in the New World with the intent to convert natives to Catholicism, trade, and discover riches.
The main reason the Spaniards even bothered to interact with the Native Americans was to achieve their main goal in America, to find gold and other valuables. In some areas where they found valuables, they first tried to cheat the Native Americans out of their treasure. The Native Americans gave up some valuables out of generosity and a slight apprehension, for they wondered if the “white men” who rode on “deer” (horses) were gods. Soon enough, they saw through the Spaniards and saw them for what they really were, greedy, selfish men with nothing but a greedy desire for riches. They attempted to drive them away by attacking them.
The Europeans looked down on the Native Americans and referred to them as “savages” because their society did not match their own. The many different Native American tribes had their disagreements; however they all could agree that the arrival of the Europeans lead to the destruction of their people and cultures. In this essay, I will discuss the arrival of the three major European powers (England, France, and Spain), their different ways in colonizing, and how the conquering of the Americas destroyed Native American societies. I will use evidence from the textbooks, Indians in American History edited by Frederick Hoxie and The World Turned Upside Down edited by Colin Calloway to support my argument. The Natives in America possessed all of the aspects that human beings all over the world incorporated into their societies.
With the Spanish conquistadors, they came upon the Mayan civilization, thinking that they could take control over the civilization, and change the country’s system into the European system. Not only did they try and turn the Mayan civilization into Catholicism, they also tried to eliminate the whole entire population. The other side is the peasant revolt. The occur of the peasant revolt was due to the fact that the priests were mistreating the peasants, making them work 24 hours of the day, and not feed them. The second theory is the Ecological theory, which states that the Mayan civilization collapsed due to natural causes.
(38) It’s a shame that a new and trusting people were subject to such brutality. They probably never have foreseen the hate, bloodshed and destruction of their simple and mostly peaceful way of life. When Columbus came and took some of their peoples to Spain, the amazing and mysterious country. What were the thoughts of the Spanish people at this time? How long did it take to turn against the Native people in the name of God and gold?
The Spanish then went on to kill and capture Incan soldiers and Atahualpa probably realised then that the Spanish were after gold and silver and were not there for peace. Atahualpa actually offered them rooms full of gold and silver as a ransom for them to let him go but sadly he was never granted his freedom and was eventually killed on August 29, 1533 (The Fall of the Inca Empire). After taking control of the city Cajamarca the Spanish went on to capture the capital, Cusco and there they picked Atahualpa's brother as the new Sapa Inca giving them a puppet that they could control to their will. The Spanish conquest was the breaking point for the empire because it completely destroyed the empire pushing it to its fall. However, there was still one factor that ruined the Inca empire but didn’t push it because it was a civil war between two brothers within the
How it affected their people and some of the surrounding people and justification by the Spanish for war against the Aztecs. Secondly, what the Aztecs believed to be the return of the god Quetzalcoatl, the Spanish conquistador, Cortes and his Spanish army. Disease played a huge part in the fall. Small pox brought upon the Spanish spread quickly to the people and no cure for the disease was known therefore leading to many deaths. Lastly, the skillful tactics used by Hernan Cortes that leads to the surrender of the last Aztec emperor.
The intent of the Spanish monarchy was only to subdue the Native American Indians, never to exterminate them. However, it was their intent to completely eliminate the French Huguenots who had established a French colony on American soil that the Spanish claimed as their own. The orders given to the Spanish conquistadors were to completely wipe out all French Huguenots; they were not to leave a trace of them or their Protestant views in Florida. Spain’s attack was deliberate and systematic with the intent to completely destroy a specific religious group, the Protestants. [iv]The Conquistadors attacked the French three times, but the most important attack was the attack at Fort Caroline.