what did Spain immigrants bring with them to america?

Answer 1

Diseases that the native american's systems couldnt handle.

Answer 2

I am assuming you might want to consider cultural influences of Spanish immigration to North America rather than confine yourself to the Conquistadors and South America.

I think the discovery of North America, Roman Catholicism and introduction of the horse is what I was taught at school

have a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_in_the_United_States

http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Spanish-Americans.html

http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/censr-18.pdf

http://www.thefurtrapper.com/indian_horse.htm

http://www.caballosdecolores.com/


Below are some dates I found in a history time line that relate to events that triggered voulntary and forced "immigration" from Spain or under Spanish influence

1492 Columbus sails from Spain to a landfall somewhere in the Caribbean and "stumbles" onto present-day America

1565 The Spanish establish the settlement of Saint Augustine in present-day Florida, the oldest known settlement in North America

1598 The Spanish establish the colony of New Mexico in present-day southwestern U.S.

1619 Originally, slaves have been used in America by the Spanish since the beginning of the 1500's. In 1619, when a Spanish ship sent a cargo of Africans to colonial Jamestown, Africans were used as indentured servants, serving a master for sevens years, then freed. Many became farmers themselves acquiring African servants for their own use. Though as greed came into play over the next few decades, there developed a worldwide desire for slavery, and planters in the New World who wanted a steady labor force could see the major benefits of slave labor. To accommodate to the demand for slavery, Virginia adopted new laws in 1650, establishing that Africans arriving in new cargoes would be servants for life, as would their children and their children's children.

1654 The first Jewish immigrants to America arrive in New Amsterdam as refugees from a Dutch colony in South America. Specifically Sephardic Jews, they were originally forced out of Spain by the Spanish Inquisition.


If you start with the above events you can then trace through the cultural results of colonisation, the horse and its importance in the America's, introduction of slaves etc.

Answer 3

Hernando Cortez ("the Killer") came to America in 1519, landing somewhere around present day Vera Cruz. With him he brought foreign bacteria that the Aztecs' immune systems were not biologically equipped to fight against. These epidemics made the Aztecs weak and Cortez was able to wipe out the Aztec Empire with his army. Also interesting, is that the Aztecs actually thought that Cortez was their god, Quetzalcoatl, coming back to destroy them.

Answer 4

I assume you mean the USA?

Significant contributions in terms of architecture, particularly churches, fortrresses, and large houses.

Answer 5

the only european country to bring respect to the natives and not treat them like their children

Answer 6

Guns, swords,horses, diseases and the bible!

Answer 7

Disease and war

Answer 8

Syphilis

Answer 9

HOLLLLLLLLY^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Answer 10

disease and poverty