Diseases caused by the discovery of America
The conquest in America given approximately in 1492, in which Christopher Columbus managedThe extinction of his beliefs and even his language, since he was forced to speak Spanish, the appropriation and exploitation of his resources, bring diseases that were mortal for the indigenous people such as smallpox, measles, raw cough, flu, flu,Diphthe, plague, typhus, tracoma, muerm, anger, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, yellow fever and syphilis, since they had never had contact with a pathogenic agent, incorporated slavery, contaminated and deforested causing cooling due to the absorption of the CO₂causing the second event in the world with the highest number of deaths, being the first World War.
That which was not prohibited was the relations between settlers and indigenous or blacks, which caused miscegenation and a new designation, "Pardo".
This conquest by Spain was not an easy task even though the aborigines initialcarry out your plan had to commit all kinds of atrocities.
Christopher Columbus signed his agreement with the crown and traveled to the East on the Western route, on October 12, 1492, but never learned that he had not reached China, as he believed, but to a continent to one unknown to theWhat a time later they called America.
Colonization despite being considered a process in which a territory was discovered, has been very questioned, since there were people living in that region, the arrival of the Spaniards actually meant death by the different events that caused andthat they did causing the greatest massacre in history.
Before the arrival of Europeans in these territories there was no hunger, crime or miseries was governed with wisdom, they handled statistics and accounting and made use of the unknown decimal in the other continent. After their arrival the indigenous people welcomed them as gifts from their gods without knowing the degree of avidity and opulence without any limit. The indigenous people despite trying could not stop them, since they brought piojos, fleas, rats, cockroaches and other alimañas, in addition to various diseases such as: smallpox, measles, whore, flu, diphtheria, plague, tifus, tracoma, bitm, rage, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, yellow fever, syphilis that meant death for many people so their conquest facilitated.
According to (Correa, 2016) “Diseases brought by Spaniards wreaked havoc on indigenous populations. Between 1537 and 1546 an epidemic killed approximately 80% of the Indians, about 800.000."
They also demolished temples, cults and books of ancient religions in this way disabled their history and identity from the fertility of their corn to the power of their armies, the colonizers focused their attention on children, once convinced that the customs of theirParents were not correct, the Spaniards asked the little ones to serve them as spies of their parents who continued worshiping the pagan gods.
According to (Casas, 2013), he affirms that "the devil was collected to Christians, and they put a knife for no reason or cause, more than three thousand souls who were sitting in front of us, men and women and children".
Since the natives were not enough they brought slaves from Africa without enjoying any right, so the social classes in which Europeans predominated, the upper class predominated. Within the second the easements and mestizos and the last miners, slaves and agricultural.
These types of actions were very abhorred by many, as is the case of Antón (2012):
Everyone is in mortal sin and they live and die, for the cruelty and tyranny they use with these innocent people. They have no right to be so cruel and no authority to the facts so detestable in their peaceful territories, it is inhuman for not wanting the faith of Jesus Christ or accepting any measure.
In spite of everything that happened there were communities that were not touched and it is thanks to this that certain customs are still preserved, this type of conquest was abominable that under no circumstances everything that happened is accepted by what the term "discovery" has been questionedbecause there were people living in that territory.
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- Uriarte, j. M. (2018). Features. Retrieved July 2020, from https: // www.features.Co/Colonization-de-America/
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