American Indian Experience People want to know the answer to the question, what conclusion can be made about the American Indian experience? Well, I’ll tell you. From reading sources about different kings and Spanish settlers like How Cruel Were the Spaniards? I’ve learned that they were very cruel. As said in the passage, the Spanish word “conquistador” means “conqueror”, which if you ask me says it all. How can you be pleasant and not cruel if you are a conqueror? You can’t, the reason why the Spaniards had originally gone to the new world in search for wealth and Indian labor. This to me sounds like they were already planning on enslaving these poor people. Spaniards came to the lands to convert the natives to Christianity, as explorers
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Some of the diseases were smallpox, influenza, and measles as the article of Las Casas tells. Now People may say and did mention in the asking of the article written “How Cruel Were the Spaniards?” the Spaniards were not the only ones they could be considered cruel, Native Indians were just as cruel, some engaged in human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide. And other forms of human behavior that we regard today as “cruel”. But that’s not the discussion of the topic …show more content…
The Spaniards decided that the movement had come to organize a massacre or “punishment” as they sought to it, in order to inspire fear and terror in all the people of the territory. In doing so they would not be subject to fight back. So as you can see they had done many different cruel acts towards natives from all over, countless natives had died during these sessions of what they might have though was for the greater good. Of course the terrible thing about all this was a simple rumor that was spread of riches and wealth, and one the Spanish had heard of these riches, they followed their dream of wealth and in return destroyed civilizations trying to accomplish that dream. Exploratory expeditions covered the southern part of what is now known as the United States, from Florida to California, tolerating and eliminating all Native Americans as the Spaniards deemed fit to their liking. They introduced gunpowder and distilled spirits both of which destroyed life and health of these poor
Some of the diseases were smallpox, influenza, and measles as the article of Las Casas tells. Now People may say and did mention in the asking of the article written “How Cruel Were the Spaniards?” the Spaniards were not the only ones they could be considered cruel, Native Indians were just as cruel, some engaged in human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide. And other forms of human behavior that we regard today as “cruel”. But that’s not the discussion of the topic …show more content…
The Spaniards decided that the movement had come to organize a massacre or “punishment” as they sought to it, in order to inspire fear and terror in all the people of the territory. In doing so they would not be subject to fight back. So as you can see they had done many different cruel acts towards natives from all over, countless natives had died during these sessions of what they might have though was for the greater good. Of course the terrible thing about all this was a simple rumor that was spread of riches and wealth, and one the Spanish had heard of these riches, they followed their dream of wealth and in return destroyed civilizations trying to accomplish that dream. Exploratory expeditions covered the southern part of what is now known as the United States, from Florida to California, tolerating and eliminating all Native Americans as the Spaniards deemed fit to their liking. They introduced gunpowder and distilled spirits both of which destroyed life and health of these poor