Question

What was the key reason for Europeans ending Indigenous civilizations?

O they wanted to create wars between Indigenous groups.
O they wanted Indigenous peoples to become more like Europeans.
O Europeans wanted to control their precious mineral wealth
O they wanted Indigenous peoples to convert to Catholicism.

Answer 1

they wanted to create wars between Indigenous groups.

Step-by-step explanation:

While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization.