In the late 1400s, Columbus traveled from Europe and discovered North America. This discovery led to the start of the cultural exchange between the "New World" and the “Old World”. The cultural exchange is the trade of goods, people, and ideas. This transatlantic exchange had many long-lasting positive and negative effects, including trade, intrusion, and disease. Firstly, the transatlantic trade between Europe and North America had a huge effect on trade. Antoniio Vasquez de Espinoza, a Spanish priest, wrote the “Description of the West Indies” where he discusses the university in Peru. The document states “The university and Royal schools are so distinguished that they need envy no other in the world... The Professors are in major part
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Document one discusses the new Spanish laws of the Indies and it quotes “Set the said Indians at liberty unless the persons who hold them for slaves show title why they should hold and possess them legitimately.” (Doc 1) This quote discusses the laws that the Spanish created to free the Native American. This caused intrusion in Africa because once the Native American slaves were set free, the Europeans needed new slaves and took Africans. Another source that discusses the effect of intrusion is When Worlds Collide by Kenneth Auchincloss. It explains that if Columbus hadn’t found North America in 1492, the intrusion would have occurred eventually (Doc 4). So, the effect that the cultural exchange had on intrusion explained in this document is that it was …show more content…
Dinesh D'Souza wrote, in “The Crimes of Christopher Columbus”, that “Yet although European enslavement of Indians and the Spanish forced labor system extracted a heavy toll in lives, the vast majority of Indian casualties occurred not as a result of hard labor or deliberate destruction but because of contagious diseases that the Europeans transmitted to the Indians.” (Doc 5) This source explains that although the enslavement of the Native Americans decreased their population, the diseases that the Europeans brought to America is really what dramatically effected the Native American population. However, the trade of diseases worked both ways, causing the diseases from America, for example syphilis, to also spread to Europe. The Native Americans, however, had not developed any resistance or immunity to the diseases brought from Europe, and their number started to rapidly decrease. Another source that discusses effect of diseases from the cultural exchange is “The Great Disease Migration” by Geoffrey Cowley. He states, “The disaster began almost as soon as Columbus arrived, fueled mainly by smallpox and measles.” and Cowley also compares the effects of smallpox in America to "that of the Black Death on the history of the Old World." (Doc 7) This article discusses how trade effected disease in the “New World” and how it created a huge dent in the Native American population. The last
Document one discusses the new Spanish laws of the Indies and it quotes “Set the said Indians at liberty unless the persons who hold them for slaves show title why they should hold and possess them legitimately.” (Doc 1) This quote discusses the laws that the Spanish created to free the Native American. This caused intrusion in Africa because once the Native American slaves were set free, the Europeans needed new slaves and took Africans. Another source that discusses the effect of intrusion is When Worlds Collide by Kenneth Auchincloss. It explains that if Columbus hadn’t found North America in 1492, the intrusion would have occurred eventually (Doc 4). So, the effect that the cultural exchange had on intrusion explained in this document is that it was …show more content…
Dinesh D'Souza wrote, in “The Crimes of Christopher Columbus”, that “Yet although European enslavement of Indians and the Spanish forced labor system extracted a heavy toll in lives, the vast majority of Indian casualties occurred not as a result of hard labor or deliberate destruction but because of contagious diseases that the Europeans transmitted to the Indians.” (Doc 5) This source explains that although the enslavement of the Native Americans decreased their population, the diseases that the Europeans brought to America is really what dramatically effected the Native American population. However, the trade of diseases worked both ways, causing the diseases from America, for example syphilis, to also spread to Europe. The Native Americans, however, had not developed any resistance or immunity to the diseases brought from Europe, and their number started to rapidly decrease. Another source that discusses effect of diseases from the cultural exchange is “The Great Disease Migration” by Geoffrey Cowley. He states, “The disaster began almost as soon as Columbus arrived, fueled mainly by smallpox and measles.” and Cowley also compares the effects of smallpox in America to "that of the Black Death on the history of the Old World." (Doc 7) This article discusses how trade effected disease in the “New World” and how it created a huge dent in the Native American population. The last