They also spread religion, languages and a new economic system. The Europeans brought over knowledge that was useful such as “people of the Americas realized that crops with higher caloric value could not only feed more people, but also allowed people to work harder because they were more energized.” (Doc 3) An important crop was potatoes which could be left in the ground until they were ready to be eaten. Essential animals were pigs and horses.…
During the 15th century, European nations began to send explorers throughout the world; these explorers helped create new trade routes, which greatly affected Europe’s prosperity and the interactions between European countries. The Europeans influenced other countries and cultures by establishing trading stations, creating colonies, imposing their ideas upon various native people, and introducing new diseases, and non-European cultures also changed European trade, social life, and ideas. European nations created a global trading system that changed the food cultures of a multitude of countries, and scholars in Europe began to describe and analyze the different people, cultures, and places that Europeans encountered. Demand for a workforce…
Dog – 12,000 years ago iv. Horse – Central Asia Seth Adler c. First used animals to cultivate the land and were later used to sell leather and milk. d. Both environmental and cultural factors contributed to agriculture. (1) Those who favor environmental reference climate change around 10,000 years ago.…
However, the Europeans that began to inhabit the western frontier were scared of the Native Americans that they came in contact with. They were scared of what they did not know and they wanted the land that the Native Americans were living on. At first white Americans thought that if they could simply civilize Native Americans and make them more like white Americans then they would be more open to European ways. However, as the number of white Americans grew the land owned by the Native Americans was craved even more.…
Between 1500 and 1830, there was a prominent effect of racial ideologies on societies particularly in the regions of NOrth America and of Latin America and the Caribbean. There was a big impact on cultures and societies because of racial prejudices and stereotypes that changed society’s view on people of specific races. In both the North and South regions of the Americas, the societal and cultural effects of racial ideologies was most often seen in the interaction of the native and foreign people. Foreign people often viewed themselves as higher than indigenous people which led to racist norms in society. However, the difference between the European Nations and their beliefs caused the effects on North and Latin American societies differs greatly.…
Before the Age Exploration, Natives were never involved with trading routes. When the Europeans forced the Americas into trading, the new diseases brought to them were foreign and so they couldn’t treat the diseases before it killed a large percentage of Natives. In addition, Europe might have gained sovereignty but soon lost it. The purpose of exploration was to better Europe’s economic state, because a large percentage of Europe’s population were poor and sick. But exploration only ended up making the poor people poorer, putting Europe in a worse economic and political situation than it was already…
Since the Native Americans did not know about God or have as advanced technologies, such as guns, the settlers deemed them as lesser people. Their success made the Europeans angry and jealous that they were not superior and then became concerned about fighting with the Indians than their own needs that they needed to set up so that they could survive there. The Indians were actually the only thing that were keeping the settlers alive and the constant guerrilla warfare that went back and forth between the two groups diminished the trust between both of them. They were constantly fighting with the Native Americans which was a poor idea because they were their main source of food.…
Conquistadors from Europe in the old world. (Europe, Asia, Africa) Came to the New world (North and south America) looking for gold and glory and to convert others to Christianity. They took natives who lived in the new world as slaves, they slaughtered them, and treated them cruelly. The Europeans had caused the genocide of Native Americans, the mass killing of this religious and cultural group, and it was all on purpose.…
Through the Columbian Exchange, Europe began to flourish as a result of the food transported from the Americas. While Europe benefitted greatly, the America’s inherited Europe’s weeds, diseases and an infestation of pigs that ate their crops. That is not to say that Europe did not help the Americas as well, however the give and take within the exchange was extremely one sided. One of the greatest resources brought to America from Europe was domestic animals. For tribes that depended more on hunting than crops, the mustangs provided them with the ability to hunt and travel more effectively, greatly enhancing their quality of life.…
A very few of the Europeans had well thought-out that the Native Americans were a match to their society or an equal I would say, all just because of their dissimilarities in religion, dress, practice, agricultural, housing, and their individualities. However, the Spanish, Dutch, and the French sought out profit through the access to the new equipment, trading of knives, axes, cooking utensils, weapons, and a long list of other belongings, and the utilization of the resources, knowing that the Native Americans would be the main key into their triumph. The Europeans response to the Indian tribes such as the Iroquois had begun to allocate more devotion to the fur catching; furs and pelts had provided the tribes the much means in buying royal goods. The Europeans furthermore wanted to transform the Native Americans into the Christianity way of being/faith. Consequently, the financial gain and their beliefs were the two most factors that was most affected by the changing aspects for the European and indigenous American…
Europeans re-settled grounds that had been abandoned by the ninth and tenth century intrusions. It also opened up incipient grounds for agriculture. Other than this Europe experienced numerous innovative advances in this time. The utilization of the horse collar and horseshoes made…
No European domestic animal however had a bigger impact on the new world people than the horse. Horses were a…
The third part of the book, How the West Won, by Rodney Stark, continues to discuss the ways that the middle ages are different from the way we understand them. They were a time of great innovation and change. So much of culture was formed during these times. Many historians and history teachers just brush over these stories and facts, if not completely ignore them. Stark attempts to show how western culture was developed during times of great change.…
Following the civil war, the railroads towards the west helped in opening up a lot of land for settlement and economic development. White settlers traveled from the East to farm, ranch, and mine. Along with the white settlers, African- Americans made their way from the south to the west for economic development. Even the Chinese who worked on the railroads traveled to the west furthering its diversity. Settlers from the east changed the face of the “Great Plains”.…
In the dining halls of noble houses, servants came out of the kitchens with steaming platters revealing roasted chicken, vegetable stew, and freshly-caught fish baked in a cream sauce. Such were the meals of the Renaissance, the beginning of a new age of creativity and culinary innovation. From these Renaissance innovations came practices that inspired modern cooking traditions throughout Europe and North America. The English hunted animals for food, like the rest of the world.…