1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Sidana [21]
3 years ago
8

Which kind of relationship did Spanish colonists have with native Americans

History
2 answers:
sineoko [7]3 years ago
8 0
Colonists treated native Americans poorly
gogolik [260]3 years ago
3 0

Interactions among Europeans and Native Americans varied from place to place, and members of each nation forged relationships with Indians in very different ways, depending on a variety of economic, social and political factors. While we should be mindful of this diversity, we can still make certain generalizations. Few Europeans considered Native Americans their equals, because of differences in religion, agricultural practice, housing, dress, and other characteristics that—to Europeans—indicated Native American inferiority. However, the French, Spanish, and Dutch sought profit through trade and exploitation of New World resources, and they knew that the native people would be important to their success. Europeans also wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity. Therefore, economic gain and religion were the two factors that most affected the dynamics of European and indigenous American relationships.

The Spanish:
Spain, the most powerful monarchy in Europe and the Americas, wished to enrich themselves with the New World’s natural resources. After enslaving indigenous peoples in the Caribbean and the southern parts of the Americas to grow crops and mine for gold, silver, and other valuables, the Spanish moved into North America where they concentrated their efforts in what is now the southwestern and southeastern United States. In Florida, for example, Spain established a military post at San Augustín, (today called St. Augustine) but only a small number of Spaniards settled there. Catholic missionaries labored to convert the Indians to Christianity, and they experienced some success baptizing and transforming the Guale and Timucuan peoples into farmers. But even the most cooperative Indians continued to maintain their own religious and cultural traditions, and many priests concluded that the Indians were inferior and incapable of understanding Christianity. Indigenous populations declined over the seventeenth century as epidemics brought by the Spanish killed large numbers of natives. San Augustín remained a small outpost throughout the Spanish colonial period; a sort of multicultural crossroads where indigenous peoples came to trade with Spaniards and intermarriage between Spanish men and American Indian women was
You might be interested in
The American political process in which citizens elect individuals to represent them in the legislature was inspired by
lbvjy [14]
I believe the correct answer would be D. Romans
3 0
3 years ago
The use of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe
Alex777 [14]
The use of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe <span>after World War II strengthened the forces of democracy, since the funds made it harder for a tyrannical ruler to rise. </span>
4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
What are the key traits of a totalitarian state?
scoray [572]
In a totalitarian state, the state has a total control over its citizens, and it tries to have absolute over all the political, social and personal life. Typically, there is only one party, and all citizens have to be involved in it in some way (i.e. by a Youth  organization).
8 0
3 years ago
Which countries transitioned from democratic to non democratic in the 1930s
castortr0y [4]

Answer:

Germany and Spain

Explanation:

hope it helps im not 100% sure if i am correct i don't quiet remember my 8th grade year. xD

5 0
3 years ago
Who was dred scott abd what did he do
egoroff_w [7]
Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision".
8 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Why did so many white southerners oppose extending full citizenship to african americns ?
    9·1 answer
  • PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELP ME!!!
    14·2 answers
  • What was the date of the Birmingham Protests when did it start and end?
    15·1 answer
  • Why was 1513 a significant year in the history of florida
    11·2 answers
  • Besides the seljuk turks, who else used the title sultan.
    5·1 answer
  • Which was not an element of the bushido code of the samurai warriors? Dishonored samurai were expected to commit suicide. Samura
    15·1 answer
  • which of the following most transform the economy of the south in the early eighteen-hundreds? ​ please help me
    7·1 answer
  • Which major figure in the civil rights movement wrote "The Negro as an American"?
    9·1 answer
  • Many nobles resented the bourgeois because?
    7·1 answer
  • Need help with this anyone please
    9·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!