American People Creating A Nation

An invasion is commonly known as a military offense in which a large group of set personnel enter an opposing groups territory with an intent to liberate, re-establish, or conquer said group's territory and all within. Although Europeans that colonized North and South America were not there to liberate or re-establish the indigenous people of the regions they met, they did conquer them. In The American People Creating a Nation and a Society, it states that from the year 1492 to 1518 Europeans explorers, such as those of the Spanish and Portuguese, tried and overwhelmingly failed to establish permanent settlements. Despite laborious and costly efforts from the Spanish, they were only able to set up simple settlements in the region of the Caribbean …show more content…
It is abundantly clear within human nature we have the inner drive to explore and wonder of new lands we know nothing about but when the indigenous people of the Americas were discovered, they were also conquered for another human characteristic: greed. European explorers were given charters of land they didn't own by their rulers who know nothing of the land they were asked to settle. As stated in Chapter 1 of The American People Creating a Nation and a Society, because of this European ideal of settlement and expansion, natives to the land alike were later set to suffer from horrible and widespread disease, brutal enslavement, and the ability to do anything but watch in horror as their land suffered “ecological alterations” at the hands of conquering …show more content…
These explorers, were by many accounts, were performing a duty to their crown by finding and taking hold of the new lands they found. Despite these Europeans belief that the land they acquired were new, it was only new to those from the east. Many different cultures and societies were firmly established in the regions that the Spanish, English, Portuguese, and many other wished to conqueror. This theme of Europeans directly overlooking the native people of the New World in order to conquer their land was a central theme in the book assigned, Pocahontas and the Powhattan Dilemma. In early discussions from The Invasion of America slides, many Europeans believed that because the indigenous people of the New World had no written history that they then had no history at all, unlike other Europeans, the English sometimes “doubted their right to take the land of others [Native Americans].” However, whatever moral or legal problems the English thought of taking the Indians land, they quickly favored the idea of justifying their right to the land as by denying the Native