FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Question
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They prayed for the Native Americans.
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They became friends and traded goods with the Native Americans.
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They used advanced weapons to take control of the Native Americans.
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They paid them gold to work building colonies for them.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Spanish were able to defeat the Aztec and the Inca not only because they had horses, dogs, guns, and swords, but also because they brought with them germs that made many native Americans sick. Diseases like smallpox and measles were unknown among the natives; therefore, they had no immunity to them.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main view is that the Inca were eventually defeated due to inferior weapons, ‘open battle’ tactics, disease, internal unrest, the bold tactics of the Spanish, and the capture of the Inca’s Emperor.
Detailed explanation-3: -Conquistadors would “explore” unknown land by subjugating, enslaving, killing, and torturing the natives-as well as stealing their gold, silver, jade, precious gemstones, and other resources. They came from all over Europe but most of them were Spanish, specifically from the southern provinces.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Spaniards persuaded the leaders of Aztec vassals and Tlaxcala (a city-state never conquered by the Aztecs), to ally with them against the Aztecs. Through such methods, the Spaniards came to accumulate a massive force of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of indigenous warriors.