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How did Spanish and French exploration differ?While the Spanish were focused much more on conquest and converting indigenous peoples to Christianity, the French more interested in creating trading outposts without large-scale settlement and conquest. Their different approaches had a lot to do with where each group explored and what they found there.
How did the French explorers treat the Native Americans?France saw Indigenous nations as allies, and relied on them for survival and fur trade wealth. Indigenous people traded for European goods, established military alliances and hostilities, intermarried, sometimes converted to Christianity, and participated politically in the governance of New France.
How did the Spanish people treat the natives?The Spanish conquistadors, who went to Hispaniola and then to other Caribbean islands and finally to the mainland, were rough and violent. They took what they wanted, and when the Indians resisted--or even when they did not--the conquistadors attacked and slaughtered them.
How did the French attitude toward Native Americans differ from that of Spain?How did the French attitude toward Native Americans differ from that found in the Spanish colonies? The French treated the Native Americans with respect, learned their languages, and lived among them. The Spanish often enslaved or killed the Native Americans and took their wealth.
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