Cameron Chilcoat, Nathaniel Hook, and Nikunj Chawla
Mr. Hennen
World History II: 1600 CE - Modern
4 May 2017
The Mission Essay
Colonialism was the practice of a country acquiring and settling foreign land and then using it for economic gain. Colonialism took a great toll on Native Americans. The movie displayed this mainly by the Americas being divided into multiple countries. In the film, natives who lived on Spanish land, where they could not be placed in the slave trade, were originally placed in missions. Later, the Spanish transferred the land on that the natives lived to the hands of the Portuguese. Due to this, Portuguese slave traders wished to place the natives in missions in the slave trade. By doing this, the settlers on this land were using the land they had settled on as economic gain and were participating in colonialism.
The Columbian Exchange was the mass trading of goods, technology, and culture between the New and Old Worlds. This is seen throughout The Mission ample times mainly in the form of slave trading and European settlements. One of the biggest markets in the …show more content…
In the age of exploration, this belief was acted shown in colonization by the fact that a colony would only be able to trade with its mother country. After the trade with the mother country, the products from the colony would be sold to other countries at far greater prices than that of which the colony sold them. Though, in The Mission, direct examples of mercantilism appear sparse; mercantilism was the driving force behind much of the plot. It was just hidden underneath. A center point in the plot was the plantations which the Portuguese operated. The Portuguese settlers would trade the crops grown at these plantations to the people of
Mr. Hennen
World History II: 1600 CE - Modern
4 May 2017
The Mission Essay
Colonialism was the practice of a country acquiring and settling foreign land and then using it for economic gain. Colonialism took a great toll on Native Americans. The movie displayed this mainly by the Americas being divided into multiple countries. In the film, natives who lived on Spanish land, where they could not be placed in the slave trade, were originally placed in missions. Later, the Spanish transferred the land on that the natives lived to the hands of the Portuguese. Due to this, Portuguese slave traders wished to place the natives in missions in the slave trade. By doing this, the settlers on this land were using the land they had settled on as economic gain and were participating in colonialism.
The Columbian Exchange was the mass trading of goods, technology, and culture between the New and Old Worlds. This is seen throughout The Mission ample times mainly in the form of slave trading and European settlements. One of the biggest markets in the …show more content…
In the age of exploration, this belief was acted shown in colonization by the fact that a colony would only be able to trade with its mother country. After the trade with the mother country, the products from the colony would be sold to other countries at far greater prices than that of which the colony sold them. Though, in The Mission, direct examples of mercantilism appear sparse; mercantilism was the driving force behind much of the plot. It was just hidden underneath. A center point in the plot was the plantations which the Portuguese operated. The Portuguese settlers would trade the crops grown at these plantations to the people of