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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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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Yet the experience of African slaves and the Native American Indians starkly contrasts with that of the European immigrant groups, and describes a second, darker facet to American culture that still exists today. ...

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