THE EUROPEANS AND THE NEW AMERICA
(WEEK 4A)
When the Europeans (Spaniards) came to South America they didn’t only take the gold as everybody thinks but a lot of other things:
THE FOOD
The Native Americans had a system of cultivating food such as coffee which The Spanish never had seen or done before, It surprised them a lot. This new food (also the fruits) where a phenomenal market for the newly arrived because back in Spain this product sold really well. So they started to massively take these elements and duplicate the sells. But as the Cultivation had to be done on certain seasons and not all the time in the year, the Arrived wanted all the time the plants to be farmed and so the product was damaged and finally died. As that business was over then the fruit was also taken with excess. The trees with the fruits were doubled and every single of any fruit was seeded. Once again the ambition of the Europeans made damage to Americans.
LANGUAGE
As the invaders came with the Spanish as Language they couldn’t understand what the Natives were saying especially because in all they conquered were about 3000 different languages. So they decided to put a new rule which dictated “as we are the conquerors of this place and emperors of the world we shall put our language as the only and principal of this lands, anybody who dares to cuestionate the punish will be dead by hanging” . (Translated to English, Colombia imagenes de su diversidad, pg 56) So when the “new dictators” conquered a village they taught to the natives how to speak it and so they could go to the next village to warn them about the Spanish coming, and that if they didn’t learn the Spanish their destiny would be worst. By this method the invasions were easier and that’s why many languages in our country were lost and our homeland language is Spanish.
RELIGION
The Indians believed in a source of gods which implied their ancestors and that they would guide them to make the right Decisions through life. Now the newly arrived Believed mainly in the religion Catholic and Christian. In every village they conquered they installed a church in which summited the Indians to bow a different God they were used to.
HUMAN RIGHTS
The massive Conquering of South America, made a huge change in the New World. From every aspect of the live, so all this massacres, wars did it take any meaning or we were better before the Europeans arrived?
(WEEK 4A)
When the Europeans (Spaniards) came to South America they didn’t only take the gold as everybody thinks but a lot of other things:
THE FOOD
The Native Americans had a system of cultivating food such as coffee which The Spanish never had seen or done before, It surprised them a lot. This new food (also the fruits) where a phenomenal market for the newly arrived because back in Spain this product sold really well. So they started to massively take these elements and duplicate the sells. But as the Cultivation had to be done on certain seasons and not all the time in the year, the Arrived wanted all the time the plants to be farmed and so the product was damaged and finally died. As that business was over then the fruit was also taken with excess. The trees with the fruits were doubled and every single of any fruit was seeded. Once again the ambition of the Europeans made damage to Americans.
LANGUAGE
As the invaders came with the Spanish as Language they couldn’t understand what the Natives were saying especially because in all they conquered were about 3000 different languages. So they decided to put a new rule which dictated “as we are the conquerors of this place and emperors of the world we shall put our language as the only and principal of this lands, anybody who dares to cuestionate the punish will be dead by hanging” . (Translated to English, Colombia imagenes de su diversidad, pg 56) So when the “new dictators” conquered a village they taught to the natives how to speak it and so they could go to the next village to warn them about the Spanish coming, and that if they didn’t learn the Spanish their destiny would be worst. By this method the invasions were easier and that’s why many languages in our country were lost and our homeland language is Spanish.
RELIGION
The Indians believed in a source of gods which implied their ancestors and that they would guide them to make the right Decisions through life. Now the newly arrived Believed mainly in the religion Catholic and Christian. In every village they conquered they installed a church in which summited the Indians to bow a different God they were used to.
HUMAN RIGHTS
The massive Conquering of South America, made a huge change in the New World. From every aspect of the live, so all this massacres, wars did it take any meaning or we were better before the Europeans arrived?
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