However, not to say that native peoples of North and South America did not influence Europeans. ... Word spread rapidly of the riches the new world had to offer when Columbus returned to Spain. ... Beyond the scopes of politics and economics native peoples influenced European diets, habits and cultures. ... Soon after explores returned with new foods and products, such as tobacco to Europe, Europeans grew fond of these new and tasty commodities and desired more greatly, for ever changing the European lifestyle. ... This contact with these new and strange people devastated the natives inde...

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Along with this, Cortés and Pizarro also possessed native allies. ... Differing very much between both conquests was the first encounter between the Spaniards and the natives. In present day Mexico, when Cortés and his men arrived, the Aztec leader, Moctezuma II failed to use military forces because he identified the Spaniards arrival as the returning of gods. ... Since their first encounters with the natives, the natives saw them as returning gods and were in amazement. ... However or the Portuguese they colonized noticeably slower than the Spanish. they also had more peaceful...

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One cannot blame Columbus for seeking a return for his work, but to demand such rewards was a little far-fetched. ... By directly pointing out the lack of proper military weapons and equipment of the natives, Columbus downplays any threat of resistance. ... According to a Library of Congress exhibit on Columbus, the native population declined from an estimate 1 million to 30,000 over just two decades. ... He laid the foundation with the blood of millions of Native Americans for the systematic genocide and displacement of the Native Americans that would ensue in the years to come. ... His lust...

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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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The whites who were at the top, next were the Creoles, beneath them were the Native Americans, who were the official wards of the Crown but yet they were still greatly exploited and abused. Mestizos, who are people of mixed Native American and white heritage, and they suffered legal and social discrimination. ... They felt like they were being used and seeing nothing in return but poverty. ... These imposed ideas left the continent weak and resulted in the loss of culture, the dependence on European countries, and a long standing ethnic tension between natives and settlers which is evident to ...

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America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... When Costa Rica declared war on Nicaragua, Walker found that much of the native population had rebelled to join the Costa Ricans and suddenly found him outnumbered. In a second Battle of Rivas, Costa Rican and native Nicaraguan forces under the command of Costa Rican president Juan Rafael Mora routed Walker's disillusioned and disorganized merce...

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When the situation arose that African slaves didn't adapt to the conditions properly, Native Indians were forced to labor. ... Huge concessions and monopolies were given to foreign companies in return for the development of domestic suppliers of the required components. ...

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