The inheritance of the colonization of the continent and its consequences in the current American societies
America has suffered some series of changes over time, since the arrival of the first men by the Bering Strait to this day. As we have read so far we were made up of a series of pre -Hispanic civilizations within which the Olmecs, Teotihuacana, Mexica, Maya, Incas, among many others, which had a very different lifestyle that we know today afterThe arrival of the Spaniards to the American soil.
With the arrival of the Spaniards to America, the term colonization is known which is synonymous with conquest, it brings changes that can be considered positive or negative for the conquered population. As Americans when we listen to the word "colonize", the natural thing is that we think of invasion, destruction, abolition and others, starting from the experience lived through the natives at the time they were colonized by the Spaniards, Portuguese, French, among othersPowers of the so -called First World.
Colonization was the death of many cultures established through the years for the birth of the others. This was an epidemic that expanded throughout the American territory after the search for wealth and power in the new continent, the fact that the Spaniards consider this territory as a synonym for power and wealth, produced a high migration from theEuropean continent to America in the colonial era, thus causing colonization to be even greater and much faster. This situation leads us to the next question What consequences did the high rate of colonizers brought to the continent and its inhabitants? Regarding this, it should be not, to achieve this they needed indigenous work, which were enslaved, and some trafficked to the Spanish lands to serve noble families as servants, their living conditions was denigrating, since they were subject to abuse, rapes, abuse and others, the situation was such that some preferred the suicide to follow under the yoke of the Spaniards;Others instead preferred to rebel against abuse through struggles, which did not have much success for the disadvantages of military resources that they owned compared to their colonizers. Adding also the diseases brought by the Spaniards (smallpox, measles, varichelas, typhus, yellow fever, among others) all affecting the indigenous population, which did not possess any type of treatment for the cure of these diseases. All these causes mentioned above result.
Starting from the point where we are no longer a pure race of indigenous but with various cultural mixtures, our cultural heritage becomes even greater, starting with the fact that the first colon trips did not have the presence of female figures, by saidReason Many of these took the natives and through these relationships the cultural mixture began with the birth of the mestizos, thanks to these, the indigenous cultures that we know today we know were preserved a bit.
After the abolition of the natives, the colonizers need work hands to continue producing wealth and to be able to add in the equation the Africans reaching the Spanish in 1505 further increasing the cultural diversity that existed so far through the mixture of SpaniardsAnd black giving rise to the mulattos, in this way the entire American population was intermingled and not only with the birth of new races, but also with the adoption of new forms of governments, traditions, gastronomy, dances, lifestyle, betweenothers. All of you contributing a grain of sand in our current culture.
Taking this reflection as a reflection we can answer the key question: Colonization! Civilization or destruction? Colonization as I mentioned before brought a lot Isla, developed shops, implemented the Spanish language in much of the American soil, modernized agriculture techniques and produced new sources of work such as mining and textile industries, implemented an organized educational system directed by the Church , they built large cities with infrastructure that are still preserved today as is the case of the colonial zone of Santo Domingo -Declarada by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site-, they abolished the mystical beliefs that the natives possessed by implementing Catholicism as a universal religion , the miscegenation and refinement of the indigenous race occurred, in Other words The continent gave an immeasurable change in a few years of colonization.
This puts us in a balance of interests, considering that it would have been better? Or undergo changes to achieve a modern civilization? Considering that every process of change implies sacrifices and sufferings, it was the part that had to live our American indigenous people for today to have the civilization we know. Without the intervention of the colonizers to the continent, the modernization process was going to be much slower or perhaps nor would it have existed and we were even directed by chiefs and divided into cacicazgo as in the pre -Hispanic era. This does not justify the inhuman way in which the natives were treated, but if it gives us the comfort that their sacrifice was not totally in vain and that thanks to this we can have the development that the continent possesses today.
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