They wanted the resources that the natives had; fur, fish, timber, gold, and acquistionl land.
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The Incas were a Native American tribe in Mexico and lived by their culture while the Europeans came to enslave the people they found and take their land.
Lots of land, to show their European powers did they take land; so that they were feared. But they spread unknown diseases to the native Americans, i.e. usually by raping, felt good when I did it, lol jokes
They were looking for someone to work the land for them.
Near extinction, cultural calamity on a vast scale, loss of land…
When the Europeans arrived, thousands of Native Americans died of smallpox. Not only that, but Europeans slaughtered thousands of Natives under the order of President Andrew Jackson. The surviving Native Americans were forced on to reservations.