Columbus envisioned an opportunity to evangelize to the "heathen- natives, to provide another trade point with his mother country, and to learn about a vast extent of new flora and fauna, as well as fascinating cultures that were unlike anything the Old World had ever seen. ... Hernando Cortés's sole purpose for the occupation of present-day Mexico was the conquest of the native peoples. Through brutal force and deception, both conscious and unconscious, he destroyed the native tribes, making the Aztec Empire his most esteemed prize. ... The scientist in Columbus got the best of...

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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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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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The Americas had no immunity to these diseases and many Native American groups encountered so much death and disease that large groups of them left their current life to escape European intrusion and disease. Venereal syphilis was brought to the Europeans from returning sailors and this affected many Europeans at the time. ...

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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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