Once the churches established power, they then built hospitals, orphanages, and schools to instruct the native of America to convert to Christianity. To control the Indians, they brought the Indians to live in the villages where they were converted, taught trading, and was encouraged to grow crops all while being under the control of the church. The women in the colonies had alternate methods to marriage. They had the option to either become a nun or be married. The America was sought after to profit economically. To some of the countries, like the Spanish conquerors, America was just a region for profits. For example, an Aztec observer commented that the Spanish conquerors “longed and lusted for gold. Their bodies swelled with greed, and their hunger was ravenous; they hungered like pigs for that gold”. In the beginning colonial authorities tried to rely on human labor for their local sources. However, throughout time the population of indigenous people of America was slowly fading. The reason for their decline in population was due to diseases brought back from the Spaniards. The Spaniards brought diseases, like smallpox, measles, and typhus, which the natives had no cure
Once the churches established power, they then built hospitals, orphanages, and schools to instruct the native of America to convert to Christianity. To control the Indians, they brought the Indians to live in the villages where they were converted, taught trading, and was encouraged to grow crops all while being under the control of the church. The women in the colonies had alternate methods to marriage. They had the option to either become a nun or be married. The America was sought after to profit economically. To some of the countries, like the Spanish conquerors, America was just a region for profits. For example, an Aztec observer commented that the Spanish conquerors “longed and lusted for gold. Their bodies swelled with greed, and their hunger was ravenous; they hungered like pigs for that gold”. In the beginning colonial authorities tried to rely on human labor for their local sources. However, throughout time the population of indigenous people of America was slowly fading. The reason for their decline in population was due to diseases brought back from the Spaniards. The Spaniards brought diseases, like smallpox, measles, and typhus, which the natives had no cure