Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Bolivia Colonization
In South America, there is Bolivia. In Bolivia, there used to be the Aymara people who were basically the natives. These people lived in the Andes Mountains. Around the 1500s, Spain came and completely changed how these people lived. Hence, a colonization. They had the Spanish language embedded on them, religion mixture of Roman Catholic with indegious belifs and Seventh Day Adventist. The Spanish then made it mandatory for the natives to labor in the rich silver mines on the altiplano in 1570. In the end, millions of these people died from the henious, filthy conditions in those mines.
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That sounds very bad, and very similar to other spanish colonizations in South America. They did not treat the natives well, manipulated them, and even transfered diseases to them. All these were extremely negative effects on their culture. The positives were that they introduced new religion(although this could be negative also) and they introduced a new language.
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