American Conquest And Colonization

The conquest and colonization of the peoples of America and their implications devastating for the aboriginal population of America were the immediate consequences of this momentous event. America had been isolated from the world for thousands of years, and the arrival of the Europeans took a radical turn to its history, with effects that feel up to the present time.
In addition to disintegrate the political and economic systems that existed, indigenous peoples suffered a loss of the sense of their lives and of the existence of their communities. The life in the colony was focus in the economic interests of the conquerors, whose main purpose was to accumulate riches for the motherland and to itself. In the midst of this collapse were introduced the foundations of European culture. During the colonization process each of the metropolis colonizing implant new forms of life. Economic activities, religion, and political conditions changed to the American peoples.
They were forced to perform work very hard; they took away their land (some peoples were forcibly transferred to other places); no longer able to work in community for ensuring the survival of the whole group. Mortality increased by this general deterioration of living conditions and because many died due to epidemics of diseases introduced by Europeans, as smallpox. Today, after 500 years of interact, we are a true new world, a new reality. Our continent is culturally mestizo and in that lies its huge variety and