Spain created a formal system of government to rule its colonies. The Spanish forced Native Americans to work in the gold and silver mines.
It’s less scary now, since we aren’t living through it.
Generally speaking, the Cold War rivalry directly influenced all of the following except "religion," since this was mainly a conflict over differing ideologies--specifically capitalism and communism.
Jackson Pollock said: "It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. The technique is just a means of arriving at a statement." For him, the new styles of art are more than techniques to apply and he also uses the Surrealism to suggest different ways to describe the unconscious.