American History - Assignment Example

November 24, Discussion Answers Part A. What factors seem to have contributed to this success? Would it have been possible for the Indians to resist Spanish encroachment? I agree that the Spanish had much success against the Incan Indians in Central America because of their superior arms and military power. I also agree that the Spanish were well armed with supplies from Spain, and they also had better supplies and were better nourished than the Indians, although the Spanish did not have better crops, as the Indians were superior in planting and harvesting local crops than the Spanish were.. The Spanish also had knowledge of metals such as iron and bronze which allowed them superior weaponry and armor/shields.

But the Indians had the advantage of knowing how to live off the land, and its topography, more so than the Spanish. They had natural superior knowledge of the topography and survival on smaller amounts of supplies than the Spanish. If the Indians could have gotten the Spanish out of their comfort zone, they could have resisted Spanish encroachment much more easily. Part B. It was a good point that the Incan Indians were susceptible to European diseases such as small pox and measles. Many Indians were wiped out because of Spanish disease.

The Spanish weapons were far superior (more high tech) than those of the Indians, which was a huge advantage. Although the Indians had more numbers of people, the Spanish nullified that with their superior technology and weaponry. Also not mentioned was the Spanish desire to convert and conquer native Indians and convert them to Christianity. That was a wave of conversion which the Indians were powerless to survive, as the Spanish did so all over the world. Part C. This answer is almost unintelligible.

I agree that the Spanish were well armed by the King and Queen of Spain, and had a stronger military, I think the person wanted to assert that the Spanish got to know the topography well too, but this would have certainly been a disadvantage for them, as they could not have known it better than the native Incan Indians. I also disagree with the scond part of resistance against the Spanish. No matter how strong an Indian leader, he would have been helpless at the hands of superior Spanish power and desire to settle and convert the local “savages.

” The Incan Empire was on the decline at this time, but even with their great architecture and customs, they could not have resisted to any great extent the advances of the SPanish. The Spanish had the strongest Navy and colonialist tendencies in the world at that time, and few cultures other than the British were able to resist her advances, and only then with naval dominance and superior weaponry to the Spanish. The Incans definitely had none of those, and tribal diplomacy would have been fruitless against the SPanish colonialist goals there.