The Age of Exploration brought upon many changes to the new world. Some for the better, some for the worse, and today I will be telling you about how the Spanish affected the South Americans. After 1492, which is when Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean and landed in America, the Spanish would start to colonize different parts of the Americas. They would do many different things to the natives for two main reasons: religion and money. They, in the long term, would achieve both of these goals. Not only would they spread religion, but they would spread around several crops/livestock and viruses. You could even say that their language was an export. One of the main excuses, that both the Spanish and the Portuguese used, to go exploring was to convert the pagans of different lands. This is
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The main languages in South America are some form of Spanish and maybe Portuguese. When they conquered, killed is probably a better term, the natives they made them learn their language. Either that or when the colonies were made, the natives had to learn the language in order to thrive. When the British conquered India they didn’t force the language onto the people, it was only beneficial for them to know it. Most of that population might not even know English. But in South America, Spanish is the main language in the area. The language had and still does, have a huge affect on the area.
The conquistadors brought horses, cows, pigs, wheat, barley, sugar cane. These animals took over local environments in Caribbean; pigs ate the iguanas, shellfish, sweet potatoes, all foods that they never had seen before and they thrived in the wild. The cattle claimed grasslands, which were lusher than in the old world. Horses also underwent massive population growth in the wild due to abundance of grasslands. Rats, dogs, and cats also went wild in new environment. The introduction of these species helped Spanish in later
The main languages in South America are some form of Spanish and maybe Portuguese. When they conquered, killed is probably a better term, the natives they made them learn their language. Either that or when the colonies were made, the natives had to learn the language in order to thrive. When the British conquered India they didn’t force the language onto the people, it was only beneficial for them to know it. Most of that population might not even know English. But in South America, Spanish is the main language in the area. The language had and still does, have a huge affect on the area.
The conquistadors brought horses, cows, pigs, wheat, barley, sugar cane. These animals took over local environments in Caribbean; pigs ate the iguanas, shellfish, sweet potatoes, all foods that they never had seen before and they thrived in the wild. The cattle claimed grasslands, which were lusher than in the old world. Horses also underwent massive population growth in the wild due to abundance of grasslands. Rats, dogs, and cats also went wild in new environment. The introduction of these species helped Spanish in later