What method Did the Spanish use to change native American culture

The Spanish used a number of techniques to change the culture of the indigenous peoples of the New World. Most obviously, they used conquest to exert their will and claim lands. The Spanish had superior tools and weapons, but also benefited from the natives being decimated by new diseases the Spanish inadvertently introduced. In conquering the lands of the natives, the Spanish instituted European economic, political, and justice systems over the Indians.

The Spanish also attempted to subvert the culture of the Indians by converting them to Christianity. They abolished the traditional religions of the Native Americans and forced them to worship a monotheistic God. Churches and missions were constructed throughout the New World to achieve this.

Another way that the Spanish abolished traditional native culture is through intermarriage. Unlike the English, who remained separated from the Indians, the Spanish intermarried and established a new ethnicity of people that would be called mestizos. This intermingling with the native population resulted in a blending of Spanish and Indian cultures which further destroyed ancestral native knowledge.