In the sixteenth century the Spaniards conquered the Aztec and the Inca empires. I ask myself how they did it if these empires were so big? But they were tricked into fighting within their own people by the Spaniards. Eventually a lot of people died because of this, which the book calls “The Great Dying”. I think it says exactly what happened during that time. Disease also played a great part in the dying, because the native people did not have immunity from the disease that the European people brought. The thing that gets me the most about these conquests is that mostly it was done for expanding their territory yes, but because of religion. They wanted to force their religion on the native people. I think as I have become more educated, I have come to realize that religion is not such a good thing. However, that is another blog topic.
The Americas was not the only place that was conquered, so was the Caribbean. They also faced a lot of hardship because of this conquering for the land and its goods. Primarily for profit of the sugar plant that grew there. The Europeans had the people as slaves in order to get a profit. It was sad to read about all of this, but it needs to be taught.
We all know about the conquering of the Americas by the Europeans, or at least I think everyone knows. Sometimes I am ashamed of having Spaniard blood, because of what they did to the Native people of the lands. But, I have to think, if it wasn’t for the conquering of the Spanish and the English to the Americas then we would not be here today. We cannot change the past, but we can learn from it and try not to do the same thing again.
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