What was the most significant result of the spanish colonization of central and south america

Spain became rich by stealing the wealth of the American colonies.

A  result of the Spanish civilization was a change in the religion because central and south america had a polytheistic religion that means they believed in lots of gods, but with the spanish colonization they turned in catholics, another change we can see was in the culture, with the Spanish civilization ,central and south america changed their languages to spanish