The New World Long Essay

Between the mid 15th century and the early 17th century The Age of Discovery marked the beginning of modern civilization. Many explorers from different countries would risk their lives during this search. Although Spain, England, and France all instituted policies that sought to exploit native peoples, Spain overwhelmingly sought to convert natives to Catholicism and treat them as economic dependents, England traded with native people but primarily pursued cultivation of Native American land, and France sought to trade raw materials with Native Americans. Thus, one can argue that economic competition amongst Spain, England, and France helped shape the relationships that were established by these countries with Native Americans in the New World.

One of the mayor impacts that the Spanish had was the Spanish mission, it was a frontier institution that sought to incorporate indigenous people into the Spanish colonial empire, its catholic religion, and certain aspects of its hispanic culture through the formal establishment or recognition of sedentary Indian communities entrusted to the tutelage of missionaries under the protection and control of the Spanish state.Don Juan de Oñate Salazar was an explorer,colonial governor of New Spain. His stated objective was to spread Roman Catholicism and establish new missions. Spanish exploration of the New World was based on immediate colonization of the areas Spain claimed. In 1493, during Columbu´s second voyage, columbus brought to Hispanolia seventeen ships loaded with 1,200 men, seeds, plants, livestock, chickens, and dogs. Isabela, a settlement founded in modern-day Dominican Republic on December 08, 1493 would become a staging area for the Spanish invasion of mesoamerica. The spanish conquistadores were the soldiers, explorers, and adventures who brought much of the Americas and Asias Pacific under Spanish colonial rule between the 15th and 17th centuries. Gold and silver would eventually lead to the decline of Spain´s power. South America gold and silver mines gave out in the mid-1600s resulting in the crumbling of Spain´s economy. Mesoamerican peoples were accustomed to autocratic rule. The encomienda system granted tribute from Indian Villages to individual conquistadors as a reward for their services to the Crown as legalizing Indian salvery. The crown granted a person a specific number of natives of whom they were to take responsibility. In return, they could exact tribute from the natives in the form of labor. The grantees of the encomienda were usually conquistadors and soldiers, but they also included women and Native notables. The downfall of the encomienda system began in the early 1510, when Dominican missionaries began protesting the abuse of the native people by Spanish colonist. Bartolome de Las Casas, a priest and former encomiendero in hispaniola himself, underwent a profound conversion after seeing the abuse of the native people.

The columbian exchange