HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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Thousands of Native Americans died from forced labor, war, and disease
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Native American culture became the dominant aspect of Latin American culture
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Native Americans lost most parts of their culture
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The Maya and the Incas, realizing victory was impossible, surrendered and never again fought against the Spanish
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Detailed explanation-1: -Diseases like smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera quickly spread and depleted Native American populations. The disease spread quickly because Native Americans were not immune to these diseases. As a result, up to 95% of the indigenous population in the Americas died.
Detailed explanation-2: -American Indian populations plummeted after the arrival of Europeans in the New World, largely because of the spread of smallpox, typhus, measles, and other infectious diseases. But archaeologists and historians have debated the exact timing and severity of the decline.
Detailed explanation-3: -Describe the common effects of the first encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans in Mexico, Peru, and elsewhere. They Spanish made connections and then took over violently. Why were Native Americans unable to defeat the Spanish conquistadors? Disease helped the Spanish take control.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Spanish colonization however had major negative impacts on the indigenous people that settled in Trinidad such as the decrease of the population, family separation, starvation and the lost of their culture and tradition. The most prominent amongst them all was genocide and annihilation.