To me, the more interesting question is this:
Why were there such big cultural differences between the Europeans who settled North America and the Europeans who settled South America?
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese intermarry and mix with the Indians of Central and South America, while the Indians of North America did not mix (or at least very little) with the northern European types (English, Dutch, German, Scandinavian) that settled North America?
Indians in North America were essentially wiped out.
In Central and South America, they were also brutalized, but there was a large degree of admixture with the colonizers. Spanish and Portuguese took native wives, and also reproduced with slaves.
British didn't really do this, or at least not as much.
North America was a caste system that was very rigid. Why was this?
Was it climate? Geography? Cultural differences between the Mediterranean races and the Northern Europeans?
Why were there such big cultural differences between the Europeans who settled North America and the Europeans who settled South America?
Why did the Spanish and Portuguese intermarry and mix with the Indians of Central and South America, while the Indians of North America did not mix (or at least very little) with the northern European types (English, Dutch, German, Scandinavian) that settled North America?
Indians in North America were essentially wiped out.
In Central and South America, they were also brutalized, but there was a large degree of admixture with the colonizers. Spanish and Portuguese took native wives, and also reproduced with slaves.
British didn't really do this, or at least not as much.
North America was a caste system that was very rigid. Why was this?
Was it climate? Geography? Cultural differences between the Mediterranean races and the Northern Europeans?