It is a description of great conquistador, Cortez, written by Bernal Diaz in 1516. This document again displays attitudes of indifference toward the Native American population, as Cortez promises gold, silver, and Indian slaves to anyone who accompanies him in conquering the new lands. Only briefly is religion mentioned in the document. This shows that the conquistadors valued wealth more than spreading the word of God. In other words, Spanish motives for monetary gain resulted in cruel and poor attitude towards Indians.
Spain on the other hand felt that the native people were not using the land to it's full potential. It was their obligation to put the land to better use. Through the generations of colonization and invasion, both the Spanish Empire and the native people met several ups and downs. Spain initially conquered many of the Natives such as the Aztecs and the Pueblos. Eventually the Pueblos blamed the Spanish for their hardships and misfortunes because of the fact that the Spanish had, in a sense, outlawed their ancient rituals and ceremonies.
The Indians were the first to do good for the English and the English were the first to do wrong to the Indians. The English believed only what they wanted too, even if it came from an untrustworthy source. The English would ignore 20 of the most honorable Indian men and listen to the least trustworthy Indian so they could punish the Indians. When land was sold by the Indians the English men said that more land was sold than the Indians agreed with. The English would trick the Indians to sell their land for less and if the king would not then the English man would create a new Indian king that would sell the land.
In 1607, a boat from England arrived in the New World. This boat was full of men who hoped they could make a profit of the Americas. The English comforted their consciences on the belief that everything they did in the colonies was for the benefit of the natives. They believed that as Englishmen they had a right to claim the New World as theirs. The English believed that the Native Americans were not making the land yield enough fruit and this perceived shortcoming caused the natives to forfeit their right to the land.
If he didn’t change the religion for the best interest of England, we would have a higher crime rate and England would be destroyed. The Catholic Church went from being a place where you can find God, to a place where people are executed and go against the laws of God and humanity. Henry VIII said “The people look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes and set forth Gods word truly or else I, whom God has appointed his high minister, will see these divisions extinct and the enormities corrected”. The Catholic Church decided to start controlling everyone in England.
Impact of Globalization Derra Gibler Western Governors University Abstract Globalization as the influence of modern nations over non-developed or traditional peoples has affected indigenous peoples the world over. I will discuss two such examples of the impact of globalization, the Aboriginal peoples and European settlement and the Spanish Imperialism of the Philippine Islands. The Europeans had a direct impact on the Aboriginals as they landed on an inhabited continent and claimed it as though it was theirs by right. They saw Aboriginals as enemies and as the settlers had modern guns were better armed for the conflict. Not all settlers considered themselves enemies of the natives but sought to better the lives of the natives and so had a second unintentional effect of introducing disease for which the natives had no immunity (Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 2011).
They wanted to gain numbers to support Catholicism and show that it is the true religion. Because of this, they forced the Native American to become Catholic like themselves. They set up convents and brought missionaries to help convert the Indians to Catholicism. The Spanish were mostly interested in taking gold from their settlements. Their settlements didn’t last as long as Britain’s colonies because they did not have anything else to do economically after they ran out of gold.
White men were also afraid of the different ideas these peoples were bringing. Most of these ideas were revolutionary, many of these people had came from oppressing countries and wanted freedom, but we saw those ideas as a danger for our government. Attitudes held toward Native Americans, Cubans, and Filipinos were different because for the Indians the U.S tried to “Americanize” and “civilize” them by separating them and out-lawing their tribes, and for the Cubans and Filipinos the U.S just simply denied their entrance to the country and did all they could to get them out of the country. All these attitudes were based on one thing only, the idea of white superiority. These ideas and attitudes held towards these people influenced actions taken during this period tremendously.
Explain why a few Spaniards were able to conquer large numbers of indigenous. There are three main reasons why a few Spaniards were able to conquer large number of indigenous people. The first reason why the Spaniards were successful indigenous conquerors is because they took advantage of the beliefs of the Indians. The Indians at first thought of the Spaniards as “Gods,” since the Spaniards knew that they manipulated the Indians into doing what they wanted. The second reason why Spaniards were able to conquer the Indians is mainly all f the weapons they had.
The main reason for the natives’ enslavement was simply because Spain and Portugal viewed them as inferior and easily dominated them. The ways in which Spain and Portugal obtained their wealth were quite different. Spain having landed in a mineral rich environment saw immediate reward for their exploration and began shipping back the vast amounts of gold and silver they found. The ships that carried the gold and silver to Spain where called the Treasure Fleet; though other names were used such as: Silver Fleet, Plate Fleet, and West Indies Fleet. So great was the amount of silver the colonists shipped back that it caused inflation in Spain and hurt its economy.