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Colonization effects on indigenous peoples
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Juan de Oñate: The Last Conquistador Your name Name of the University Juan de Onate: The Last Conquistador Juan de Onate, described as the last conquistador was a great person who led hundreds of families to settle in one of the oldest European colonies in the United States in search of unimaginable wealth. Juan de Onate was born in 1550 to aristocrats Cristobal de Onate and Catalina de Salazar in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Cristobal and Catalina were wealthy Spanish colonists and proud owners of a silver mine in Zacatecas, which is currently located in the north central Mexico. Juan involved himself in safeguarding his father’s silver mines right from an early age.
Some factors that best explain the success enjoyed by the 16th century conquistadors in conquering Native American empires include riding horses, wearing helmets, advanced weaponry, intimidation, strategy, and disease. Riding horses allowed the conquistadors to move fast and carry their weapons with them, causing fear in the Natives and their defeat. The conquistadors wore helmets that helped protect their heads from the Native American retaliation; this is a very vulnerable part of the body when not protected. Advanced weapons such as guns were terrifying to the Native Americans instilling fear in them and put them at a disadvantage in fighting off the conquistadors. Conquistadors were also armed with very perfected swords that were much
He compares the natives as "innocent sheep" to highlight his argument that they had done no crime against the Spanish or any other foreign lands to have sentenced their deaths. Going further , Las Casas then discusses the brutal and ironically inhumane way that the Spanish were killing and harassing the inhabitants in order to claim land and fortune as their own. His words allows freeway for his defense of the Indians to take a stronger hold into the mindset of both the societies back in Europe and also other countries whose attention would have been on the Indies at this time. The method in which he switches back and forth between the previous utopias of lands such as Hispaniola, Cuba and the Lucayan Islands and the resulting dead lands that came about due to the actions of the Spanish is effective in its purpose to embellish the horror of the Indies' exploitation and
In the sixteenth century, Spanish exploration of the New World set off a series of events that involved vicious conquests, religious domination, and ethnic discrimination of Native people. Following these conquests, what was left of the Native population was subjected to colonialism, where European superiority and exploitation lived on. Even after gaining independence, prejudice and belittlement of Native Americans continued throughout nineteenth century Latin America and onward. Each of the four films touch on a specific era of Native and European contact, but they differ in terms of portraying the effects of colonialism.
Zinn focuses the written work on the unnecessary violence expressed by different conquistadors and the way that other sources portray the events in a less than factual way. The conquistadors were led by their desire for treasures and grew increasingly lazy and cruel as they stayed in the America’s. Their stay had affected the way that they think and do things everyday because they had the “indians” at their every beck and call. To achieve the submissive actions of the Natives the conquistadors has taken advantage of their hospitality by having them lead them to the gold and punished them to death. This cruelty is what lead to the mass genocide of a single community of people.
The treatment of the native inhabitants varied among the three explorers. The worst treatment of the natives was seen in great detail through the perspective of De Las Casas. During his expedition in the Indies, he and his comrades killed millions of the natives to take everything and anything they wanted. He stated, “And thus they have deprived the Indians of their lives and souls, for the millions I mentioned have died without the Faith and without the benefit of the sacraments. This is a well-known and proven fact which even the tyrant Governors, themselves killers, know and admit.
Long ago some people from Spain who were explorers, who were called conquistadors, came to explore the new world which was the name they used to call America as they used to call it. But they came for three things and three things only they came for god, gold and glory. Glory was really important to them, glory for them meant power and strength it meant they had to conquer land for Spain which also meant greatness for them in their mission for glory was really hard they had to conquer the land and then take over the whole land and sometimes they found land but it wouldn 't have any resources that they could use or it wouldn 't be of any
Who were the conquistadors? Conquistadors were mainly from Spain, particularly from southern and southwestern Spain. Conquistadors typically came from families that were poor ranging to families of lower nobility. Those who were very high born did not feel the need to set off in search of adventure. Conquistadors had to have some money to begin with, to buy tools needed for their job like weapons, armor, and horses.
When thinking of the Spanish Conquest, two groups often come to mind: the Spaniards and the Native Americans. The roles of each of these groups and their encounters have been so heavily studied that often the role of Africans is undermined. As Matthew Restall states in his article Black Conquistadors, the justifications for African contribution are often “inadequately substantiated if not marginalized [as the] Africans were a ubiquitous and pivotal part of the Spanish conquest campaigns in the Americas […]” (Restall 172). Early on in his article, Restall characterizes three categories of Africans present during the Conquest – mass slaves, unarmed servants of the Spanish, and armed auxillaries (Restall 175).
Coloniality throughout Latin America has been apparent since the 1500s. While the process has changed over to the current contemporary period, colonialism has left it large mark on Latin America. Colonialism has shaped race, class, industries, labor and land throughout Central America and the Caribbean, in ways that leaves visible scars on the land. Hierarchal systems, knowledge, and cultural systems have been shaped by coloniality from the 1500s to contemporary times. Coloniality has take various shapes and forms but it changes presences doesn’t divert from its true nature.
Las Casas was a historian who later became a Bishop. He believed that the Indians shouldn't just be conquered but should have a chance of fighting the Europeans first. He traveled to North America in 1550. When Las Casas first came to the New World, he noticed that even though the Indians lacked art and writing, they had the the capacity to rule(pg.9). The Indians had kingdoms, cities and communities that were governed well and wisely because they followed the laws and customs of the Indians(pg.9).
Europeans had many effects on the area now known as Texas and on the Indians. Few if any of those effects were positive. The Conquistadors affected the people, the land, and caused the colonization of Texas. They had many motives for their deeds, converting the Indians to Christianity, finding cities of gold, or just claiming land. A Spanish conquistador named Cabeza de Vaca crashed into the mainland near Galveston in 1528 and began exploring the area now known as Texas.
European explorers and conquistadors during the age of exploration were motivated by three things: God, gold and glory. The two most prominent of the three between 1492 and 1607 were gold and glory. Beginning in 1492 gold motivated many explorers, from Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World to the Virginia Company’s colonization of America. Gold is a symbol for wealth, and many explorers soon realized the New World’s potential for wealth. The Spanish’s interest in wealth inspired Columbus’s expedition in the first place, as he was sent to India to trade for spices.
This power imbalance and these payments are key in the subjugation of the natives. Furthermore, the paternalism of the Spanish toward the Indigenous peoples is obvious: “Captain [Cortes] stared at him [Cuauhtemoc]…then patted him on the head” (p.117). Post-conquest, and still today, “difficult relations” between the descendants of the Indigenous peoples and the “others” (p.117) still exist. The European view of the natives “as idolatrous savages” or, on the contrary, as “models of natural virtue” (p.175) demonstrate the versatile and often contradictory views held. Similarly, the Aztecs at times saw the Spaniards as gods, and other times as gold-hungry savages who “fingered it like monkeys” (p.51).
“One Hundred Indians should dye for every individual Spaniard that should be slain”, “Spaniards breed up such fierce hunting Dogs as would devour an Indian like a Hog”, and “they erected large Gibbets, but low made, so that their feet almost reached the ground, under which they made a Fire to burn them to ashes while hanging on them” are just some of the few atrocities committed by the Spanish on the Native Americans. These accounts are first hand experienced by the Spanish Dominican Priest, Las Casas, who objected to the Spanish treatment towards the natives. Not only did he tell how the Spanish conquistadors treat the peoples of the New World, but also told how his views on the Native American population, what he thought should be done with
