Based off of reading “Contact: Europe And America Meet”, contact between the Indians and Europeans exhibited more drawbacks than it did benefits, so I believe contact was bad. The Europeans mindset of the Americas was glorious at the beginning, but once they reached the land and saw the Indians that all changed. The Europeans believed that power and wealth is they only important aspect. They fought the Indians for their land at the price of gaining a higher social class. I believe the contact between them was bad because of the spread of diseases. Since the Indians were not immune to the Europeans diseases such as, smallpox and measles, most of the Indian population was wiped out, between 50 and 90 percent. Later when the Europeans returned
