We owe America´s success to our founding fathers who broke from England, before that the pilgrims who came here to escape religious persecution. But in the beginning it was the famous explorers who set out to discover new lands for European monarchies that shaped the country and society we live in today. European exploration was a movement during the years 1440-1550 in which Europe's prominent countries: Spain, France, and Portugal, were on a race to conquer the unclaimed lands of the New world. Colonization happened once explorers, hired by the monarchies, claimed lands for their country, and citizens looking new life took a ship to the New World and settled there. However, these lands were not uninhabited, the native people in the Americas
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For example was the famous Conquistador Francisco Pizarro who discovered the Inca tribe of South America. Before this time period the Incas were an advanced civilization of people who flourished under kings with institutes for learning, sophisticated calendars, and there own religion and social orders. Many explorers deemed them as savages, cortes calling them ¨horrible and abominable,( DoC 1) Deeming them as savages, for their naive behavior, Pizarro sought to take advantage of them. Enslaving the Incas to tool farmland and the mass rape of women and children are some of the cases that exemplify the the barbaric treatment that was forced upon the Incas. There leader Atahualpa knew the Pizarro was a bad man and attempted to kill him before he killed his tribe. Unfortunately Pizarro was captured first, held for ransom, and them executed when the ransom was paid. This brutality …show more content…
One of the more prominent diseases were smallpox brought over from Europe. For years the Europeans had been domesticating pigs, horses, sheep and cattle, [infecting] themselves with a wide array of germs¨ (Document 6). Their immune systems were build up leaving them less susceptible to harmful diseases. The Indians had spent thousands of years in insolation, not having any contact with germs that weren't there own. With the arriving of the europeans this brought mass amount of diseases that the indian immune system could not handle, for example smallpox. Miguel Leon-Portilla writes, ¨the sick were so utterly helpless, they could only lie on their beds like corpses¨ (document 4). In the text Portilla describes the the amount of grief and sickness that overcame may Aztecs during Cortes conquest of Mexico. Yale historian David Brion Davis calls it, ẗhe greatest genocide in history(6). This is comparable with if we go to foreign countries, we sometimes get sick because our body is not use to the germs that are found there. Thatś why the Ebola outbreak a couple years ago was such a threat, is there was ever big population to get the disease is america we would be defenseless because our bodies do not know how to go fight off certain diseases. This is why babies get sick a lot to, especially when they are first
For example was the famous Conquistador Francisco Pizarro who discovered the Inca tribe of South America. Before this time period the Incas were an advanced civilization of people who flourished under kings with institutes for learning, sophisticated calendars, and there own religion and social orders. Many explorers deemed them as savages, cortes calling them ¨horrible and abominable,( DoC 1) Deeming them as savages, for their naive behavior, Pizarro sought to take advantage of them. Enslaving the Incas to tool farmland and the mass rape of women and children are some of the cases that exemplify the the barbaric treatment that was forced upon the Incas. There leader Atahualpa knew the Pizarro was a bad man and attempted to kill him before he killed his tribe. Unfortunately Pizarro was captured first, held for ransom, and them executed when the ransom was paid. This brutality …show more content…
One of the more prominent diseases were smallpox brought over from Europe. For years the Europeans had been domesticating pigs, horses, sheep and cattle, [infecting] themselves with a wide array of germs¨ (Document 6). Their immune systems were build up leaving them less susceptible to harmful diseases. The Indians had spent thousands of years in insolation, not having any contact with germs that weren't there own. With the arriving of the europeans this brought mass amount of diseases that the indian immune system could not handle, for example smallpox. Miguel Leon-Portilla writes, ¨the sick were so utterly helpless, they could only lie on their beds like corpses¨ (document 4). In the text Portilla describes the the amount of grief and sickness that overcame may Aztecs during Cortes conquest of Mexico. Yale historian David Brion Davis calls it, ẗhe greatest genocide in history(6). This is comparable with if we go to foreign countries, we sometimes get sick because our body is not use to the germs that are found there. Thatś why the Ebola outbreak a couple years ago was such a threat, is there was ever big population to get the disease is america we would be defenseless because our bodies do not know how to go fight off certain diseases. This is why babies get sick a lot to, especially when they are first