How Did The Spanish Americans Colonize The New World

In 1493 the pope divided the new world; he divided it as everything east of the demarcation line was for Portugal and everything west of that line was for Spain. The Spaniards were motivated by the three G’s (Glory, God, and Gold) which in some ways was accurate to what they did. They brought a deep sense of righteousness with them by telling the Indians that they had to submit or if they resisted they would be smashed, removing the religious beliefs from the minds and hearts of the Native American people. Despite being outnumbered by the native Americans, the Spanish colonists still quickly subdued and settled many areas of the new world. By the late 1500, almost a quarter of a million Spaniards had come to settle in the colonies of the new Spain. More Spanish settlers came to colonize the new world; they found the
Europeans had technology (guns, powder) and large animals with them that frightened the Aztecs. “Gunpowder frightens the most valiant and courageous Indian and renders him slave to the white man’s command” - Spanish priest in Florida. But the Europeans practically wiped out the Aztec empire with Smallpox. The introduction of European diseases like Smallpox, Plague, Chickenpox, Malaria, Yellow Fever etc. in some areas, up to 90% of the population is decimated by those diseases. With their labor, the riches of New Spain were extracted and cultivated by the Indians. They turned out to be a limited resource as disease, hunger and exhaustion quickly depopulated a world once inhabited by perhaps as many as a hundred million native Americans. The Spaniards initially relied on Native American labor to extract the riches of New Spain, animal hides and sugar grown from export to Spain generated a flourishing colonial economy fueled by Indian slave labor. But the decline of the native population limited this labor