The Spanish didn't defeat any native Americans. The Spanish had defeated the Aztecs by forming a revolution with the Aztec citizens. This was successful because the Aztec government was cruel. In that way they nearly got five hundred thousand Aztec citizens to fight for them.
The native Americans that the Spaniards encountered were "beaten" and by the first answer, it says as much. With a superior military force including guns & horses, the Spanish basically overwhelmed the native populations they encountered in the New World.
Way back in the late 1400's when Columbus mistakingly sailed to Central America(thinking it was Asia), he had sailed with the spanish from Spain and when they got to land and native Americans who were living there, they mistreated and enslaved them. Since the Spanish were ahead of them in society, had guns, more trained soldiers, and brought European dieases with them, the native Americans were too weakened to fight and defend themselves and their land. Millions of them died.
Columbus called them Indians because he thought he was in the indies islands off the coast of East Asia.
With diseases which Europeans brought unintentionally with them and Native Americans didn't have any resistance to them.
More technologically advances weaponry, gunpowder using handguns, and cannons.
Metals, like iron, which was unknown to the Native Americans, armor made out of iron and steel.
Horses, war dogs, animals that native Americans haven't seen before Europeans came.
And with betrayal, allying with many weak Native American tribes to defeat the strong empires of South America, and then defeating their previous allies too.
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European enslavement of Native Americans existed with the Spanish from the earliest days on the Caribbean islands they first settled.
Onate believed that Spanish rule of native Americans would bring them peace, justice, salvation, orderliness and protection.
Missions
agriculture
Spanish soldiers guarded the missions and made sure none of the Native Americans inside ran away or revolted.
it was hard for the native americans beacause the spanish soldiers were unkind to them.
it was hard for the native americans beacause the spanish soldiers were unkind to them.
it was hard for the native americans beacause the spanish soldiers were unkind to them.
They had firepower and trained soldiers compared to spears and untrained Native Americans.
Sometimes the Spanish made captured native Americans into slaves
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Galvez gathered small groups of Spanish soldiers, French Americans, colonists, and Native Americans and became a key ally to the patriots.
it forced native Americans to adopt Spanish ways as well as beliefs the priests also made it possible for some blending of the native Americans and Spanish cultures.
Buffalo Soldiers.
The Spanish Conquistadors conquered the Native Americans because they wanted their gold.
The Native Americans helped the Spanish Explorers but sometimes they slaved the Spanish EXAMPLE: Cabeza De Vaca (A SPANISH EXPLORER) was captured by the Karankawa tribe but helped and fed by other Native American tribes.