Spanish Conquistadors: Heroes Or Murderers :: essays research papers fc

Spanish Conquistadors Heroes or Murderers     "The Indians in the first fatal decades of the white homophile in America wereconquered because they could not conceive what it was that the white man wasafter, and what manner of man he was." (The Indians of the Americas, p97)     This misconception, was that the Indians could not imagine was that theSpanish Conquistadors would come to the Americas and brutall(a)y assassinate men womenand children in the name of a god. They could not see how a group of stackcould follow such a god. The Spanish conquistadors attack the American natives oftheir naiveness. The Spanish conquistadors took away the Indians right to theirway of life and their land.      living(a) in the United States of America, its hard to imagine a group ofpeople coming into our country, and taking our land. But this event has alreadyhappened, almost cholecalciferol years ago. The people who dominated t he United Statesbefore the Spanish invasion roamed among a 2 large continents. Today the Indiansare restricted to reserves or reservations. Their land has been taken fromthem, and little if any was given in return. The people who live among thesereservations try to preserve the old way of life.     another(prenominal) thing taken from the Indians of Americas was their way of life.One thing almost all people hold close to their heart is their way of life whatever it may be. The Indians however were persecuted for their beliefs andeither killed or converted to the Spanish universality or many other varyingways of life. This conversion did not take place peacefully. Many resistingIndians died for their cause. The Indians of the Americas could no longer huntand amass food freely. Nor could they out-of-the-way(prenominal)m just for their community. Strong menwere taken as slaves either to Hispaola (Modern Day Haiti), Cuba or taken backto Spain. such(prenominal) sla ves were often worked to death, because of the seeminglyendless supply of American Indians. Other Indians were force to pay tribute tothe Spanish by working on farms to flow the invaders when they themselves werebarely nourished enough to live. Some American Indians went so far as to commitmass suicides and not to have children, because they knew their fate if theywere to go on living or to bring another child into the solid ground only to see him orher worked to death (Collier, 63). Another very serious factor in the demiseof Native American Indians was disease, the native Americans had no immunity tothe European diseases.