Editing Latinoamerica (section)

===La Colonia===

So, you are a Conquistador Español and has managed to get into your pocket the rights for a small town of natives with their surrounding lands, what do? What indeed get a Cura so he could marry you with the most important local woman and start teaching your new subjects the ways of catholicism and civilization.

In time more and more Europeans started arriving into the New World, sometimes nobility with their respective spouses, sometimes just second sons of impoverished hidalgos, with many mixing with the local natives and creating different castes based on the degree of European or local blood and the usual discrimination laws which come with these sort of things and the resulting social unrest, meanwhile the local governors, now chosen by the Crown, started expanding over the old native cities or just made new ones whenever they found good conditions, soon the population started to recover as the Vicerroy often reserved for the government the right to brutalize the subjects and tribal and ethnic warfare was seeing as counterproductive.

From an economic and political point of view the american colonies were both a blessing and a curse to the old monarchies of Spain and Portugal, while they had massive resources available and their own respective markets they became dependent on the influx of resources from the colonies, gold in particular, producing an inflation which eventually broke their economic capabilities, this, combined with the simple fact none of them could make a positive accounting balance (fighting the protestants and ottomans took incredible amount of resources) eventually weakened the grip of the european countries in such way that when the ideas of democracy and independence entered the new continent it was a death sentence for the colonial dominions, and if that sounds like the roman empire, or certain futuristic Imperium, that's because that's how empires collapse.

As Spain suffered from social unrest and foreign invasion (oh the irony) the colonies saw uprisings from native populations tired of getting exploited, it really didn't end that well for them as often division was the norm of the day and without the support of the descendants of the Europeans they were missing both in terms of logistics and capital, but then in the North and Europe, a new idea took hold.