Impact

-Spain influenced culture in the US, Mexico, South and Central America. -"New Spain" or Spain's colonies in the Americas brought an abundance of wealth to Spain and made it one of the most powerful countries of the Renaissance. -New Spain's goods helped fund a golden age of art and culture in Spain. -Spain increased their military to protect ships carrying goods such as gold and furs. -With the new found riches in the New World, the Spaniards were in need of cheap labor to export and to collect the goods. So they turned to enslaving the natives -When the Spaniards enslaves the Natives, they forced them to speak Spanish and practice the Spanish religion. -Christianity was the sole religion in Spain so, the explorers and conquistadors tried to crush the Native American religion and replace it with Christianity.

-Batolome de las Casas, a Spanish Dominican priest, wanted to replace the Native American slaves with African slaves, for cheaper labor. -This would be the beginning of the slavery struggle in the New World. -The Spaniards brought many sicknesses over that the natives were not familiar with. Common colds wiped out a majority of the native population because their immune systems were not used to these foreign illnesses.