Spanish Warriors Research Paper

Early in the Americans, the Red, White, and Black came together and colluded. The Red, being the Indians, were enslaved, making them a part of this collusion. “Including the domestic labor that native wives could provide; in some cases intermarriage was a form of labor recruitment.”(22). The Blacks, or Africans, were brought to America solely as slaves for the Europeans. The Whites, are the ones who had enslaved both the Indians and the Africans. “As early as 1502, Europeans settlers began to import slaves from Africa” (23). Also they were the most important factor, because without them, there would have been no collusion. The Europeans were the ones that started colonizing the New World and bringing in slaves to help do so.

2.The English
The Spaniards, when they arrived and had heard of the nearby gold, they began to go to extremes to be able to get to and find the gold, even if that meant killing off the natives. Not to mention, they began going to extremes (including killing) to have their empire, the glory, that they wanted so badly to have. “The story of the Spanish warriors…is also a story of remarkable brutality and greed. The conquistadores subjugated and, in some areas (through a combination of warfare and disease), almost exterminate the native populations. In this horrible way, they made possible the creation of a vast Spanish empire in the New World.” (17). The English were motivated to go to the New World in order to find a new life and to have the freedom to practice whichever religion they please. “In addition to these economic motives for colonization, there were also religious ones, rooted in the events of European and English Reformations.” (27). They were also going in hopes of finding gold. “Perhaps most important, colonial commerce would allow England to acquire products from its own new territories for which the nation had previously been dependent on foreign rivals-products such as lumber, naval stares, and, above all, silver and gold.” (27). As for the French, one of the main reasons they went to the Americas was to do missionary work. “French Jesuit missionaries were among the first to penetrate