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What were the effects of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas (Smallpox…

- - - - The Spanish government introduced the asiento - a license to supply the new colonies with slaves and was sold to foreign merchants such as Portuguese, Dutch, German and British slave traders. The demand for slaves continued to increase as the new colonies developed e.g. as more plantations and new gold and silver mines were created.
        
        Spain benefited financially from the resources including gold and silver brought back from the Americas and was able to become a premier European power. A negative immediate impact of the slave trade was that many people, especially those from Africa, were always in danger of being sold into slavery and therefore being separated from there country, culture and family.
        
        An estimated 11 million enslaved Africans arrived alive in the Americas over the whole period of the transatlantic slave trade. This massive labour force support further exploration, development of the Americas, migration and cultural blending. Without this slave trade many of the foods we eat and things we know would probably not exist.