What were the effects of cortes’ conquests in the new world?

It led to the destruction of a culture, temples were destroyed because of them being considered heresy and the decimation of the population by smallpox and wars.

It cemented Spain as a world power because many riches were found in the New World and many mines provided a lot of silver to Spain.

Besides the decimation of the history, buildings, and population they did see modernization and a lot of good things happened too. But it is an opinion of may that the good things are not impactful enough to justify such a tremendous loss of life.

cultural history is your answer

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