They were taken to Malaga, Spain, and sold for about $25 a piece.” Most of the time, the enslaved people were very scarcely fed. If a slave or someone working for very little money had children, the children would most likely die of starvation because their parents could not get food or because their parents didn’t have the time to take care of them. Because of starvation and other harsh methods to torture them, “by the 1600’s, the Indian population had shrunk by more than 80% in some areas,” which is evidence that the majority of native American lives were taken after the Europeans sailed to America and starved them (World Civilizations, 810). The Europeans fed the indigenous people of the new world little to no food, which resulted in their death rate speeding up substantially. The next reason why Europeans went to severe measures to harm native Americans, was because of their religion. The explorers brought Catholicism to the new world and assumed that everyone would convert easily and give up their own