The Colonization Of Central America

Not only were indians missed treated in their own land, they also had their own rights stripped away from them from people that didn't even belong there in the first place. As Christopher Columbus departed from Spain and landed in central america, he strongly believed that he had encountered the Indies but as years came, conquers captured regions for Spain. Not only were massacres occurring at at the islands, but missionaries on the islands were trying to convert the indians to catholicism. But as Spain was removing gold from central america, this surprisingly devastated spain economy by basically reducing the amount of how much money was worth. As gold was basically hurting spain’s economy, they had a plantations system that had a huge labor