Mexican Conquest Research Paper

The Colombian Conquest, named after Christopher Colombus who mistakenly found the new world and assumed it was India. Conquest is a more realistic term to show you that European settlers robbed the natives of their land by force. The Spaniards however controlled more south, while the other Europeans controlled more of what is now North America. The tactics used to control the new land included transmitted diseases by travelers, taking force, and assimilation. Though the Europeans did unjustly acquire the new land this was the catalyst for the birth of the Americas. European settlers came to this world with new animals, crops, religion, and unfortunately, disease. Since these new diseases were introduced into the new world the natives
"It was estimated that up to eighty to ninety five percent of Indians were decimated in the hundred to hundred-fifty years after fourteen ninety-two"(Nunn, Qian 165). These new diseases however affected the settlers too. In return syphilis was introduced to the new world. Early on in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century the disease was frequently fatal."(Nunn, Qian 166). Both sides unfortunately were affected as a result of these diseases. Relations among the settlers and natives were common. "Europeans viewed Indian men as weak and Indian women as mistreated"(Gunther). Male ego played a huge role in the conquest of the native women. Children from these relations were common. In the chapter 1 power point you said, "Spanish America evolved into a hybrid culture—part Indian, part Spanish, and, in places, part African." These new multi-ace children population increased and grouped. One of those groups are the Mestizos. "Mestizos were persons of mixed Indian and Spanish origin" (Gunther). They generally assimilated into the society from which their European family were a part of. Now this doesn’t mean all mixed people assimilated, but for the ones that did they benefitted the settlers. Now the settlers had