American Christians In The 1500's

In the late 1400's and early 1500's the word Christians had another meaning to the natives of Central America, and that meaning is “Demons”. With the constant atrociousitys being done to the natives of Central America on behalf of European Christians during that time it soon became apparent to the natives that the Christians values that were being forced upon them were apparently the beliefs of demons and evil doing, since no good person or religion would do such evil things to people who welcomed the Spaniards with open arms upon their arrival. The way the Spaniards interacted with the natives of Central America during the late 1400's and early 1500's was by lying, plundering, murdering, and many other countless unspeakable acts done upon
They Enslaved many of the natives into working in the mines, and killed off many of them in the process of overwork. The Spaniards plunged the population of the two islands from six hundred thousands plus to as few as four hundred in total from the two islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica (De las Casas, 26). In 1511 the Spaniards came to the island of Cuba, and was welcomed warmly among the natives, despite knowing before hand what the Spaniards had done to the previous natives in Hispaniola (De las Casas, 27 & 29). And like before the Spaniards did onto Cuba what they did before on Hispaniola and committed murder, plunder, and enslavement upon the natives of Cuba. And some natives who were able to flee into the mountain of Cuba before the massacre committed suicide upon hearing that the Spaniards were coming to round up the rest of the natives that escaped the onslaught (De las Casas,
A Spaniard by the name of Hernan Cortez came and plunder the great city of Cholula, in which he massacre over 30,000 natives of Cholula, by publicly slaughtering them (De las Casas, 45). From Cholula Cortez made his way to Mexico City, where he would meet the great king Montezuma. Upon Cortez arrival in Mexico City, he was showered with gifts by Montezuma's people and was greeted by Montezuma himself. But soon Cortez did what he had did before, and his first step was to take the great King Montezuma as a hostage to control Montezuma's people. Soon many of Montezuma's people were murdered. After Mexico City Cortez soon turn his sight upon the province of Panuco, Tuxtepec, Impilcingo, and Colima. Cortez did upon those province what he did in Mexico city and Cholula(De las Casas,