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I found a text that has described the colonization of the Americas by the Spanish. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain to the island of Haiti in the Carribean. During the next few voyages that Columbus took, he believed that he had reached Asia which was his main goal. Of course, he didn't find a western root to Asia. In the following centuries, the Spanish set up many colonies in the New World in the Carribean, Mexico, and South America. They used natives to mine silver and farm sugarcane that they planted on plantations in the Carribean. This led to a dwindling native population. Many natives were treated a lot better and had more rights than the slaves that the Spanish brought over from Africa. This also led to a complex social hierarchy with pure Iberian Europeans at the highest of the hierarch. The colonies eventually revolted against Spanish rule in the 19th century and all of the American mainland colonies won their independence.