How Did Globalization Affect Indigenous People

Globalization has caused many changes to the world, some being extremely beneficial and others being detrimental to many groups of people. With people traveling to different parts of the world that had never been visited before they brought along with them diseases that these indigenous people have never been introduced to before. Smallpox was the main disease that claimed many lives but it was accompanied with others such as measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, and influenza that helped the death toll rise in the beginning of the sixteenth century. The reason that these diseases were so harmful to these indigenous people of the pacific islands and the Americas is because they have never been introduced to these diseases so their immune systems were shocked and had no way of fighting back. These diseases did take the lives of some Europeans but it was mostly children and older people because their immune systems we also weak. These diseases hardly effected the population that was in the work force so their cities and communities were able …show more content…
Along with many new crops came with it new animals such as horses, cattle, pigs, and chickens just to name a few. Even though the Columbian exchange killed off populations of indigenous people in the Americas and pacific islands, it actually helped the world population as a whole because there was a lot more food that was able to feed the surging number of people migrating to these new lands. In 1500 the population of the world stood in the range of 425 million and by the 1800s it reached upwards to the 900 million ranges. This exponential growth in population would not have happened if it weren’t for the migration of people to different parts of the world because they brought along with them these many different crops and animals that improved peoples diets and quantity of food available for