Exploitation from Columbus discoveries
...riendly Indian tribes. This exploitation grew as the colonists began to take more land and wealth off the Native Americans, and even unsuccessfully attempted to use the natives as forced labor. The viruses that most Europeans carried and were immune to reeked havoc on the population of the Indians. In the south, the Spanish and Portuguese were continuing to exploit the Aztec and Inca civilizations. The Aztecs thought the Spanish to be gods, and the false idols demanded that Montezuma pay the Spaniards tribute of gold and silver. The Aztecs accepted in the beginning, however the Spanish became even greedier and continued to demand more and more offerings and tributes, and the same diseases that plagued the Indians up north also caused widespread death among the tribes in the south. Even after the fall of Tetochitilian, the Aztecs and Incas were still exploited by the Spaniards to keep feeding the greed of the European nations. The African population has always stayed in a state of unrest, with civil wars and tribal conflicts abounding throughout the continent. The European explorers eventually discovered these people and realized the trade potential ...