Write a paragraph describing how global exploration impacted indigenous peoples around the world. Include specific examples of indigenous peoples and their colonizers.

European conquest and colonization had deeply disturbing, devastating effects on Indian peoples of America, of the New World. Under Spanish rule, for example, they were enslaved and forced to work for Spanish landlords; their cultures and languages were destroyed and erased; their original beliefs disappeared, censored and condemned as idolatry, paganism and witchcraft; new diseases decimated them. So, the coming of the Europeans was not a happy event for Indians.