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The Conseqences of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas (Loss of…
The Conseqences of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas
Disease
Disease lead to high death rates for the Aztec people. As many as 240 000 Aztecs are thought to have died due to disease in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas
The Spanish brought several diseases to Mexico, most prominently small pox and syphilis. This crippled the Aztec people and was one of the main reasons why the Spanish defeated them, although the Spanish were greatly outnumbered
Because the Aztecs had never come across these diseases before, they were immunologically defenseless
Loss of Indeginous Culture
High Death Rates for The Aztec People
Many Aztecs were killed when the Spanish Conquered them, and this was from disease, the brutality of the Spanish, and starvation
Spanish Brutality
Starvation
Disease led to massive losses of population for the Aztecs, which led to s short supply of food, which brought starvation, which made the Aztecs more vulnerable to disease. This was a destructive death cycle for the Aztecs
Today there is very little left of the Aztec culture, due to the Spanish wiping them out during the conquest
Most Mexican people today are of some decent to the Aztecs, but all of them have been mixing with the Spanish over the past few centuries, diluting them and slowly stamping out the Aztec people
The Spanish taught the Aztecs how to read and write, and they stopped all off the Aztec schooling, and replaced them with Spanish schools. They did this to wipe out the Aztec culture
The Aztec Sacrifices had an impact on their defeat, because the number of people they killed could have fought for them against the Spanish
The Slave Trade
Many Aztecs were turned into slaves by the Spanish, to help build the Spanish infrastructure, and to get rid of their culture, and to slowly turn them into Spanish
Many African slaves were brought into Mexico When the Spanish conquered them, and Mexico was used as a slave trading site.
All the slaves were forced into Christianity, and they were all schooled in basic Christianity
At first the Spanish brought Aztec people as slaves to build and farm, but the Spanish quickly changed to African slaves after most of the Aztecs were wiped out due to disease
Slavery in Mexico helped transfer African wealth to Europe
New goods and foods for European cultures
the Aztecs produced many different types of foods goods a produce that the Spanish had not encountered before, and through this, the Spanish brought many new goods back to Europe
The Aztecs produced maize, beans, squash, tomatoes, cocoa, chillis, and avocados
The Spanish brought Tomatoes back from Mexico, which is a very prominent ingredient in Pizza and many Italian Pastas,
If the Spanish didn't go to Mexico, the Italians would never have made pizza, or any other food with tomatoes in
The Aztecs also produced Cocoa, which was made into chocolate, and if the Spanish hadn't conquered Mexico, them Europe would not have been introduced to chocolate
