How Did Christopher Columbus Conquer The Americans

During the 1490’s of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Caribbean islands, there was not a single thing that could make his conquest fail. His conquest began with meeting the Taino people. Despite the Taino not knowing who these explorers were or where they came from they were friendly and open toward the Europeans. With his exploration, in the Americas in place, it sets forth many drastic, harsh, and cruel living standards for the Native Americans. Many factors and advantages played a role in Columbus’ successful conquering. As stated the Native Americans were too friendly toward the Europeans, despite not even knowing them. This led Columbus and his men to seize control and take advantage. Even though, the Americans were nothing but friendly to the Europeans, Columbus abused this. However the Native Americans outnumbered the Europeans, but they still had many other advantages.
Diseases such as smallpox, measles, and influenza carried by the Europeans infected the Americans, most notably the Aztec and Inca. These diseases vastly helped the Europeans take control of the Native Americans. Because there was no medical treatment as the ones we have today, diseases took out village after village. The Europeans could do nothing to control this. With diseases intact, the population of the Native’s declined drastically as much as 90% in the Caribbean islands. Significantly disease played the major advantage in the conquest.

The Spanish conquistadors, led by Christopher Columbus seized major victory, land, and goods from the Americas. Advantages such as higher- level weapons, horses, lack of the Native American's comprehension of what the Europeans were capable of , and especially disease helped conquer the Americas. Within a few, decades a few hundred European soldiers would begin to conquer more and more Native Americans through these same exact ways and advantages for years to