Initially, Spain and Portugal wanted to dominate the trading economy. When Columbus discovered the West Indies and Bahamas, a new world of opportunities was shown to Europeans. The Spanish arrived and immediately started to torture the Natives, purposely and accidentally. The Native Americans were not accustomed to the new settlers way of life, or the factors that they brought with them, such as disease. If a Spanish settler wanted to seize control over an Indian village he could easily do so without having to exert much force due to the fact that Europeans brought disease with them from the Old World.Though it was not originally part of their plans, Europeans used disease to their advantage in order to quickly annihilate Indian villages. As
