I never understood this. From what I was taught in history class, masses of native north & south americans died because of European diseases. And for each latin american country, of course there are large african and native descents, but from what I read each country has a massive part of Spanish heritage.
Nowadays, how many humans live between El Paso and Ushuaia? More than half a billion? Yet Spain is only a country of 40m people. How is this possible?
In: 36
Spain ruled as an imperial power, but that doesn’t mean all the people who lived there were from Spain, although Spanish became the primary language of governance in most of the empire. People immigrated from Spain but also many countries of Europe including from present day Italy and Germany. They also brought slaves from Africa. Not all the indigenous peoples died out, there are huge portions of many countries with indigenous or mixed demographics.
Latest Answers