Neil Salisbury and Joyce Appleby composed two articles about the era the “New World”. The two articles are closely related and have several similarities, for instance they both talk about how the discovery of the “New World” affected certain people. Salisbury went into great lengths about the indigenous people of the Americas, and Appleby wrote about how the encounter affected the Europeans. Both of the documents have substantial arguments and both are greatly supported, however, it was brought to my attention that Mr. Salisbury’s article was far more convincing than Ms. Appleby’s. Neil Salisbury uses artifacts to defend his argument, but he also states, “… a number of scholars have been integrating information from European accounts with the
