Discuss The Positive And Negative Effects Of Americans On The New World

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While the arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought new food, technology and livestock to American Indians, they also brought diseases and dangerous weapons the Natives could not defend themselves from. Many history textbooks and classrooms teach of the negative and positive impacts the Old World had on the New World, but students usually don’t learn of the lack of morals the Europeans had for Natives. The events that took place in the 15th Century cannot be classified as only a part of history, but it must be classified by the lack of humanity Europeans showed to American Indians. From the slavery, rape and abuse of the Natives to the forcing out of Natives from their homeland, the Europeans decreased the population of the Natives by over

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