Columbus spoke of his willingness to return with as much gold, spices, and slaves as their Highness wished. ... The Indians, which were actually Native Americans, shared precious information with the settlers about agriculture and hunting on the land, which was crucial for survival. ... Then I try to picture what the Native Americans must have thought about the Spaniards. ... I personally feel bad for the Native Americans. ... He managed to communicate and trade with the Native Americans and helped bring more wealth and power to Spain by doing so. ...

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After meeting with the natives of the area and creating peace with them through a treaty, land was divided up by the settlers and colonization started. ... Soon, they met a native who vaguely spoke some English, Samoset, and became friends with him. He helped them feed themselves and spoke with the fellow natives on their behalf. ... They created a treaty that basically said they would respect the Natives as the Natives would respect them in return. ...

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diaz centers his account on the material wealth and possessions that both the natives offer and the Spaniards return in gratitude. ... This European shallowness is only furthered in his retelling of the presents the natives offered to his people, which include a golden wheel "said to be worth more than ten thousand dollars- and a golden helmet that "was worth more to [the Spaniards] than if it had contained $20,000- (89). ... His naiveté and lack of education is further revealed when he mistakes the conquistador's horses for deer and later becomes baffled when the native witch do...

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This proved to be quite difficult as many of the natives held onto their cultural heritage with fierce resistance. The different native cultures included the Aztecs and Mayans as well as many smaller tribes. ... Aside from its primary goal of converting the native Americans, the church built schools and hospitals, provided nursing care for the elderly and mentally ill, and established church based schools to convert native American children to Christianity. ... In return the nobility also rebelled when their interests became threatened, but mostly it was the Crillos who plotted against the sys...

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Columbus returned to Spain with gold and Indians. ... Christopher told them if they didn't see land in three days, they would return home. ... Truth of the matter was he returned to Spain with little gold nuggets, the bodies of what had once been Native American men and many diseases, including syphilis. ... He called them Indians because he thought they were India's native people. ...

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To a Native American, his family, village and clan were the most important group. ... The Native American's didn't believe in land ownership, but instead thought of the earth as something that they could "borrow" in order to survive. ... They gave gifts with the expectation that they would get something in return. ... In my opinion, it would have been a much happier assembly of the two worlds if England had arrived first, because they would have been friendlier to the Native Americans and tried to live in peace together. ...

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Naturally, after taking in the sight of a beautiful uncharted island and meeting the local natives, his next main focus was to convert, command, and conquer. He took notice of the fact that he and his men were looked upon as heavenly figures and that the natives had virtually no weapons nor fighting techniques, so he knew that they could be "easily commanded or made to work ". ... Columbus initially wanted to convert the Indians through "love ", but seeing the endless gold and riches that could be acquired, he made the acquisition of gold his primary goal for his time spent with the natives. ....

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Soon after Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, the Spanish realized that Christopher Columbus never made it to Asia and instead that he instead stumbled across the Americas. ... Just miles away from the Pacific Ocean Christopher made it to Panama where he abandoned two of his four ships from the attack of the hostile natives. ...

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Juan Ponce de León was born in 1460 in Tierra de Campos Palencia, Spain. Ponce de Leon was born into a noble family in Spain. Later in his life, he became a soldier. He fought the Muslim Moors in Granada, Spain. The Moors were a group of Muslims that invaded Southern Spain in the 1400's. After the...

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Isabella took a special interest in the Native Americans of the new lands; when some were brought back to Spain as slaves she insisted they be returned and freed, and her will expressed her wish that the "Indians" be treated with justice and fairness. ...

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Religious Orders and Communities. Religious Orders and Communities, religious bodies, specifically of the Christian Church, whose members live under a distinctive rule, or discipline. The members of the greater number of Christian religious orders are ordained priests, although lay members are admitted as brothers and nuns to some; a number of orders are for women only. Augustinians Augustinians, religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church whose constitution is derived originally from the Rule of St Augustine of Hippo, broadly divided into the Augustinian (or Austin) Canons, and ...

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