Taylor Creighbaum 6th Hour Chapter 14 -Empires in Europe expanded via maritime -Brazil was under the Portuguese and European colonies over most of Americas -Geographical position of Europe put it in a better position than Asia because it was closer to new continent -Merchants wanted Asian wealth with no middle man between -Colonies offered a new start for poor or unfortunate Europeans and escape from their old society -Native American rivalries helped Europeans defeat one another -Native American and death rate skyrocketed because they had no immunities to the germs and bacteria foreigners brought over -Because of almost no natives left, Europeans needed new labor force and chose Africans -American staple crops were brought over to Europe…
Black Death -The bacterial disease that atrophied Europe between 1347-1351, taking an equitably greater amount of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that point. The Black Death is broadly thought to have been the result of infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. 5 Facts: • Many doctors believed that bad smells could force out the plague. Therefore, treatments for the disease included applying feces and urine, and other substances that were much more likely to spread disease than to cure it. • Y. Pestis utilized the flea by blocking its digestive tract.…
1. Q: Why was whiskey of such importance to the colonists? A: Whiskey was important to colonists because it was commonly made from corn and other grains, and during this time the harvest of grains was increasing. With the increased yield of grains, farmers were able to convert more grain into whiskey.…
The documentary We Shall Remain- After the Mayflower presented contact and interactions between settlers and Native Americans in the early periods of English colonization. It used a familiar event; the Mayflower and the establishment of Plymouth as a colonial settlement to bring forth the information in a new way. Right from the beginning of the film, it clearly and quite drastically separated itself from other documentaries of its type. While other documentaries, and many have done so, would have focused its story-telling and angle of telling this history on the colonists, this centered on the Wampanoag people.…
The air choked with the stench of disease. The landscape, shriveled and fallow. A syrupy silence hangs over the land. It is 1348; the Black Death is here. Scampering up a mooring rope and into a trade vessel, a harbor rat carries a deadly passenger, the Yersinia pestis.…
Here's a quote I would like to share. “We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.” (quotio.com) By Robert Owens. What if the Whitmans had never been born? What would happen?…
During the early 1900s, the South was plagued by multiple diseases that would negatively impact its people for years to come. This was in part caused by the South’s climate, which helped nurtured a wide variety of diseases ranging from epidemic diseases, like yellow fever, to debilitating illnesses, like hookworm and pellagra. The disease like environment of the South was not only fostered by the climate, but also by the poverty of its people, which led many to be unable to provide a nourished diet for their families. Northerners already viewed the South as an underdeveloped and sickly region at time, so their image of Southerners were only further tarnished by the realization that the people were malnourished and infected with worms. Due to…
In 1906 the upton sinclair's the novel ”The Jungle has to do with the rudkins family and their civilization.” And the struggle they had in their life. They used to live in lithuania because it was terrible for them,so they decided to come to america to have a good like maybe a little of work and half it was because they need the money. But then they got a home for them selve with the whole family. So the whole story pretty much was like an aweful and a good one at the same time.…
During the 19th century, many diseases were spread through the South. Diseases in the South included tuberculosis, diphtheria, yellow fever, malaria, cholera, childbirth, and much more. Slaves and slaveowners each had access to various medical remedies on their plantations. In the kitchen, slaves were able to cook herbal remedies to treat illnesses, or plantation owners could go to a nearby shop in order to purchase necessary medicine. Most treatments occurred on the plantation, so the same methods were used on slaves as well as slave owners.…
The Voyage The ship groaned as the waves desperately pushed at its bow. As I lay in the darkness, I could feel warmth radiate from the woman slumped over beside of me. Men were yelling above deck, but their shouts were blurred out due to the crashing waves. The sounds began to fade as my vision grew blacker, then I woke up. As soon as my eyelids shot open, I heard people screaming.…
Particularly, the spread of the summer sickness had killed several colonists in 1607, which is stated in Document E. In fact, half of the settlers died. Moving along, the colonists had died because they contracted a disease from their own water source. In Document A it describes how they dumped human waste in the river, believing it would flush away. However, that was not the case because the waste festered at the salt-fresh transition and attributed to disease.…
The bubonic plague, once hitting Europe, resulted in the death of 25 million people. Outbreaks during this catastrophe resulted in medieval society falling apart, for instance, the spread of this disease, the efforts to terminate it, and the reactions from foreign nations as well as Europe’s citizens, generated the shortage of labor all over Europe, as well as demands for higher wages, which were never agreed to, and the loss of faith, when people desperately prayed for salvation, with no answer. The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea, passengers on the Genoese trading ships were greatly infected, and their short arrival paved the way for the death of two thirds of the European population throughout the next five years. The plague and…
In American Revolution, the prevalence of smallpox played a major factor that posed a real danger to its success of winning against the British. Historians believed that spreading small pox was the way of British to cause distress among the Americans. The prevalence of smallpox adversely affected the military strategies from the generals and soldiers and also had a great impact on African Americans and Native Americans. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress created the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as commander of all Continental troops (Muelhbauer, 2110).…
Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation were epidemic along the way, and historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the…
When colonist landed in the Chesapeake in what they later named Jamestown, they were met with a “marshy, thickly wooded site [that] served as a breeding ground for malaria” (Davidson, et al 62) and a host of other diseases including dysentery, typhoid and yellow fever. The death rate for the Chesapeake was unimaginable. A Chesapeake man was only expected to live to “a mere 48 years” (Davidson, et al 63). Even as the death rate declined and life expectancies began to increase in the 1630s and 40s, high mortality rates still broke Chesapeake families. One third of children who had reached the age of 18 had outlived both of their parents.…