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The crusading spirit of the Spanish was seeking new victims and new riches to plunder following the expulsion of the Moors from the Hiberian peninsula. The warring classes of the era were jobless, in the modern sense of the term, once the task of eradicating Muslim presence in Spain was realized. The discovery of the Americas by Columbus could not have come at a better time to fuel and encourage their brutal ardor for wealth and conquest.
Conquistadores, as these warriors and their followers were called, are the main destroyers of mesoamerican culture and the native traditions that were erased through common work of the Catholic church and the Spanish authorities. Their legacy is still alive today in the inequalities, social tensions, and disparities in development seen in many parts of Latin America.
The above comment is totally ridiculous and biased against the Spanish. The Spaniards brought Christianity and civilization to the Americas. It’s a fact that the English nearly exterminated the Native Americans of the United States and Canada; moreover, the English and Dutch were highly racist and did not allow the mixing of races. If the Spaniards wiped out every single native group in Mexico, Central, and South America as so many ill-educated pundits in the United States claim; then why is there such a huge indigenous and Mestizo population (the majority) in Spanish speaking countries compared to the United States and Canada? Can you answer this? Do you really want me to go into how the sadistic English attempted to exterminate the Irish and other Celtic people?? How the English persecuted Catholics? How the English profiteered at the expense of African slaves? The persecution of aborigines in Australia? New Zealand? Should we talk about India and China as well?