Subjected to long hours of

organized labor in mines on

Lifestyle was totally plantations cattle farms and at Women were sexually Their land was taken by the
changed the missions they were virtually abused by European males Spaniards
enslaved by the encomienda and
repartimiento systems

Succumbed to European
diseases for which they had Hunted and killed as a They committed suicide
Indigenous communities
no immunity for example European sport. Those who abortion and infanticide in
were unable to feed
smallpox scarlet fever sought to escape were set resistance to their changed
themselves
influenza, typhoid, cholera upon and killed by dogs. situation
and dysentery

Some died of overwork and
starvation . They were
overworked underfed, and
many were forced to give up
their food to the Spaniards
Many were killed in warfare
as they were easily defeated.
The indigenous people
fought bravely to preserve
their liberty, but they were
easily defeated by superior
European weapons
Many fell victim to slave Destruction of the civilization of the
trading expeditions which indigenous peoples as their cultural
activities were derided by the
took indigenous peoples Europeans no longer had a time to
from the smaller islands and engage in their usual activities and
transported them to they lost the guiding hand of their
leaders as these were defeated and
Hispaniola to work in the place order subjugation to their
mines. European conquerors

They were forcible
Christianized, and their
traditional religious beliefs
were ridiculed
Through miscegenation a
new group, the mestizos was
created in the region. The Had to adopt Spanish
existence of this group language
complicated the population
and affected social relations