Diverging ideas about what it meant to live on the land and the proper way to treat it resulted in forced takeovers by the Spanish, leading to the deaths millions of Native Americans. The religious differences between the two helped the Spanish justify why they subjugated the Native Americans and religious errors of judgment made by the Native Americans made it easier for the Spanish to dominate them. Misjudgments regarding the mental and physical strength of the Native Americans also made the Spanish more eager to engage the Native Americans, but over time they realized that the battle would not be so easily won. These first divergences and errors of assessment would have a lasting negative impact on the relations that not only the Spaniards had with the Amerindians, but also the rest of Europe decided to cross the sea to the new foreign countries..