How Is Spain Different From Spanish Conquest

Conquests:
Spanish conquest of the natives was cruel and gruesome.
Spanish had smaller army, but they used steel weapons and armor, guns, and alliances with other native tribes who wanted the dominant tribe to fall.
Unintentionally spread deadly diseases to dwindle native population, resistance, and morale
Even when natives proved to be superior to Spain, conquistadors saw the polytheistic religion of the natives, in contrast to Christianity, as incentive to conquer them.

Conquistadores:
Restless young single men left Spain in search of wealth in the Americas.
They had to pay for everything, often getting investors to help and splitting some of the wealth with the investors.
Beginning of the encomienda system - victorious commanders get

Each man wanted to pass all the others and become rich with servants of their own.
Laws were written out to be carefully followed by the Indians, and if not, they would be punished harshly, but the Indians could not read them because it was in a language never seen by them, so they were frequently punished.

Consolidation:
New Spain was relatively alone, and self determining because of the distance from Spain to New Spain and the time needed to cross the Atlantic
Spain never had complete control over its colonial empire because the government and people in New Spain ignored anything they disagreed with in Spain.

Colonists:
Thousands of Spaniards moved to New Spain in search of glory and land
Native American slaves died too quickly, so Spain began importing Africans as the main slave labor in the colonies.
Because only a few Spanish women moved to the new world, interracial babies were born, between Spaniards and Indians or Africans
Strict class system setup, discriminating against interracial people, natives, and Africans.
Peninsulares on top, followed by the creoles, then the mulattoes and mestizoes, with Africans and natives (both slave and free) at the bottom

Empire:
Land in the Americas governed by