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The Native Americans who live today are a small fraction of their population in the mid-fifteenth century. The European countries that came to the Americas in search of new territory treated the Indians poorly and affected the population drastically. Spain was one of the first to come explore the new world and made their way through Central America. The Spanish explored the New World in search of gold, glory, and god, they sent many different types of people to the new world, and they had an overall negative affect on the Indians. Spaniards were constantly in America spreading religion or seeking gold and glory. Spanish priests went into the New World on a missionary goal. In these missions the priests evangelized to the Natives. Here the Natives would learn of the catholic religion, the Spanish laws and lifestyles. The missionaries tried to tame the natives so that they could live in a village under the King. The few golden trinkets that the Indians wore sent several people on a gold hunt and fleets of people came