2006-09-01 14:42:49 · 7 answers · asked by Lisa 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It wasn't really that easy. The Spaniard caught their share of hell. The promise of gold and treasure played a signifigant role in motivating the Spaniards. They were in hot competition with the other Europeans for the spoils of the "New World". The Native American Empires also made it easy by having very dark, bloodletting civilizations that brutalized its citizens, so the people were ready for a change.
The Spanish with their Christianity gave the citizens some hope for a better life. They bought it "hook, line and sinker". Good question!
2006-09-01 15:13:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we'll never know for sure. a few reasons i've heard is that the spanish had superior technology, horses, they were able to exploit divisions between the different native american groups, and the native americans had been greatly weakened by diseases brought here by the spanish. there was also weak and indecisive leadership by the native americans. one reason that gets discussed a lot is the theory that the native americans viewed the spanish as gods. from what i've read, that's been greatly overstated. after some initial encounters, the native americans knew the spanish were men just like them.
2006-09-01 21:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.) I believe they had guns, 2.) lack of Immunity of European diseases. 3,) in Mexico and S. America, the conquistadors from Spain were looking for gold, which is an immediate goal, which when the conquistadors found then they decided to slaughter the Natives because they weren't Christian and believed in human sacrifice. The people that left Europe and settled in northern North America were escaping religious persecution, so they weren't outright slaughtering the Natives, that came later when gold was discovered in land that was given to the Native Americans out west.
2006-09-01 21:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by magpie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because almost all of those Indian Nations had legends and stories going back to a time when a white God had visited and taught them many things besides the gospel.
The Aztecs thought the approaching Conquistadores to be men of Quetzalcoatl, their white God. Many refused to fight back until it was too late.
2006-09-01 21:50:12 · answer #4 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Indigenous people were innocent to the ways and greed of the world.
2006-09-01 21:52:58 · answer #5 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firepower and smallpox.
2006-09-01 21:45:28 · answer #6 · answered by Strange question... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speading disease had alot to do with it, along with superior weapons.
2006-09-01 21:45:58 · answer #7 · answered by missourim43 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋