During the age of the conquistadors it was a race to see who could find and collect all of the land they could. Gaining new parts of the new world was did not only affect the people already living on the land it affected the people who were conquering the land. European colonization of the americas shaped global economies and societies by creating a drastic decline in the native population, generating new goods for overseas trade, and by creating new mixed cultures.
When the spanish found the new lands they were determined to conquer the lands. They would stop for nothing. The spaniards had advanced weapons and armor and the natives only had bows and arrows and the spanish had horses that the natives had never seen and they frightened the natives.
When the spanish found the new lands they were determined to conquer the lands. They would stop for nothing. The spaniards had advanced weapons and armor and the natives only had bows and arrows and the spanish had horses that the natives had never seen and they frightened the natives.