How did Europe affect Latin America?

When the Europeans came to Latin America they forced away the native language of people that lived in Latin America. The Latin Americans were forced to learn the language of the country that colonized them. For example: Portuguese in Brazil, Spanish in Peru, etc. Spain colonized most of this region.

What is the greatest European influence on Latin America and why?

Although most of Latin America was colonized by Spain, the countries of Portugal and France also had major influences on the region. Due to war and disease, native populations were decimated. The European countries’ demand for free labor led them to engage in the African slave trade.

What are the 2 main European influences in Latin America?

The richness of Latin American culture is the product of many influences, including: Spanish and Portuguese culture, owing to the region’s history of colonization, settlement and continued immigration from Spain and Portugal.

How did the European colonization of Latin America change their culture?

Like language the European colonists brought their religion to Latin America and taught it to the indigenous people. Roman Catholicism was the leading religion of both Spain and Portugal. Today over 90 percent of Latin Americans say they are Catholic.

What are 3 causes of the Latin American revolutions?

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• -French Revolution inspired ideas.
• -peninsulares and creoles controlled wealth.
• -only peninsulares and creoles had power.
• -Almost all colonial rule in Latin America ended.
• -upper classes kept control of wealth.
• -continued to have strong class system.

What did Europeans bring Latin America?

The Europeans brought technologies, ideas, plants, and animals that were new to America and would transform peoples’ lives: guns, iron tools, and weapons; Christianity and Roman law; sugarcane and wheat; horses and cattle.