WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which was a major impact of Spanish colonization of the Americas?
A
It gave Spain absolute control over all of South America.
B
The cost of maintaining overseas colonies quickly drained the Spanish treasury.
C
All traces of Native American culture were wiped out in the Americas.
D
For the first time, sea routes connected much of the world.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Spain’s arrival in the New World resulted in widespread death and depopulation for the native people of the Western Hemisphere. The conquistadors killed many Native Americans in raids and wars, and they also brought with them deadly epidemic diseases such as measles and smallpox. (See Epidemics in the New World .)

Detailed explanation-2: -On 31 March 1492, the Catholic Monarch ordered the expulsion of the Jews in Spain who refused to convert to Christianity. On 12 October 1492, Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus made landfall in the Western Hemisphere, and in 1493 permanent Spanish settlement of the Americas began.

Detailed explanation-3: -As the Spanish began to settle in Latin America, they brought with them diseases that began to kill of the native people. Diseases such as small pox and typhus caused a decline in the native population. The diseases reduced the native population by almost 70 percent.

Detailed explanation-4: -European Diseases and the Native Americans The arrival of Columbus and other European explorers resulted in the spread of disease to indigenous populations throughout the Americas. There were several diseases that Europeans had built immunity to before venturing to the Americas.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Europeans brought technologies, ideas, plants, and animals that were new to America and would transform peoples’ lives: guns, iron tools, and weapons; Christianity and Roman law; sugarcane and wheat; horses and cattle. They also carried diseases against which the Indian peoples had no defenses.

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