of Discovery
The world we know and live in today is the result of the Age of Discovery, and we owe the present day to that age, and we owe the future to that age. Europe’s motivations for exploration and eventual conquest on all those explorations plays a huge role in where we sit today. We must not forget either, how the interactions we had with Native Americans and the interactions with different cultures impacted our modern outcome. From these motives and interactions, America is presented as a conquest, as it should be, it just so happens that conquest is illustrated from different perspectives and those different perspectives leads to civilizations adaptation to the age of discovery. The Age of Discovery may single handedly be the most …show more content…
The first curiosity for Europe after conquering all near, was to go far and west which lead to consequences. “Columbus’s landfall in the Caribbean had immediate and long-lasting consequences.” (Hansen p. 334) Being representations of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns, this left most of Mexico and Latin America at their control. Motivated by power, Europe began its conquest of the New World. Beginning with the conquest of Mexico (1517-1540), Conquest of Peru (1532-1550), and then the Portuguese Settlement of Brazil (1500-1580). Motivation by Europe to move and find new places for their advancement in man kind hindered those weaker than them. Those countries that hurt from the power of Europe perished and are no longer around today, however, those fast enough to keep up, did, and in todays world we know them as Russia, China and India. Yet, we owe the elimination of civilizations to the interactions of which Europe presented to the new …show more content…
However, Europe’s interactions played a more important role in Global History. Important here can be characterized as negative, and that is mostly how the Christian European settlers ended their interactions with natives and their different cultures. From the Devastation of the Indies, “After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves.” (Bartolomeo p.64). European interaction was one natives wanted to avoid and be nothing apart of. The devastation that these settlers brought wiped out whole civilizations that had been successfully living in these new regions for centuries. The Age of Discovery brought upon disapproval of those who were foreign to Europe and in the end that is what wiped them off the face of the planet as a whole. Although the interactions were mostly negative not all ended in such was as Hispaniola did. The Aztecs welcomed the Spaniards and saw them as a gift and not a threat, however, the interactions as a whole were still negative. The Spaniards moved themselves into the native villages of Mexico, and began their campaign of greed. They took gold from the kings, took homes from the natives, and yet again it ended in a bloodbath for the Christian new comers. “The blood of the warriors flowed like
The world we know and live in today is the result of the Age of Discovery, and we owe the present day to that age, and we owe the future to that age. Europe’s motivations for exploration and eventual conquest on all those explorations plays a huge role in where we sit today. We must not forget either, how the interactions we had with Native Americans and the interactions with different cultures impacted our modern outcome. From these motives and interactions, America is presented as a conquest, as it should be, it just so happens that conquest is illustrated from different perspectives and those different perspectives leads to civilizations adaptation to the age of discovery. The Age of Discovery may single handedly be the most …show more content…
The first curiosity for Europe after conquering all near, was to go far and west which lead to consequences. “Columbus’s landfall in the Caribbean had immediate and long-lasting consequences.” (Hansen p. 334) Being representations of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns, this left most of Mexico and Latin America at their control. Motivated by power, Europe began its conquest of the New World. Beginning with the conquest of Mexico (1517-1540), Conquest of Peru (1532-1550), and then the Portuguese Settlement of Brazil (1500-1580). Motivation by Europe to move and find new places for their advancement in man kind hindered those weaker than them. Those countries that hurt from the power of Europe perished and are no longer around today, however, those fast enough to keep up, did, and in todays world we know them as Russia, China and India. Yet, we owe the elimination of civilizations to the interactions of which Europe presented to the new …show more content…
However, Europe’s interactions played a more important role in Global History. Important here can be characterized as negative, and that is mostly how the Christian European settlers ended their interactions with natives and their different cultures. From the Devastation of the Indies, “After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves.” (Bartolomeo p.64). European interaction was one natives wanted to avoid and be nothing apart of. The devastation that these settlers brought wiped out whole civilizations that had been successfully living in these new regions for centuries. The Age of Discovery brought upon disapproval of those who were foreign to Europe and in the end that is what wiped them off the face of the planet as a whole. Although the interactions were mostly negative not all ended in such was as Hispaniola did. The Aztecs welcomed the Spaniards and saw them as a gift and not a threat, however, the interactions as a whole were still negative. The Spaniards moved themselves into the native villages of Mexico, and began their campaign of greed. They took gold from the kings, took homes from the natives, and yet again it ended in a bloodbath for the Christian new comers. “The blood of the warriors flowed like