Americas

Based off of reading “Contact: Europe And America Meet”, contact between the Indians and Europeans exhibited more drawbacks than it did benefits, so I believe contact was bad. The Europeans mindset of the Americas was glorious at the beginning, but once they reached the land and saw the Indians that all changed. The Europeans believed that power and wealth is they only important aspect. They fought the Indians for their land at the price of gaining a higher social class. I believe the contact…

North and South America also known as “Americas”? Several thousands of years before Christopher Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas, a different group of people discovered America. The nomadic ancestors of modern Native Americans who hiked over a “land bridge” from Asia to what is now Alaska more than 12,000 years ago. In fact, by the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas. Today, I…

“The Discovery and Conquest of Early America from 1492-1776” The New World and the Struggle to Build a Nation A quick overview of early explorers and European settlers in the New World, with analysis of their methods, principles, religions, and treatment of indigenous populations, leading to the destruction of Ancient Empires and establishment of new colonies. Starting in the late 1400’s, Spain began looking towards the West, across the Atlantic Ocean, to expand their growing empire. Recent…

“Within the first 100 years of the Europeans landing in the Americas, nine-tenths of the natives died out because of diseases the Europeans brought with them, such as smallpox and the plague. Corn, chocolate, and hemp were some goods that the Europeans got from the Americas. Most Spanish men were obsessed with three things: Gold, God, and Glory. To obtain these things, they had to go to the Americas. Hernan Cortes, a Spaniard, heard about El Dorado and went to Mexico in 1519 to find it. He ran…

Document Response to Chapter 2 "The New World" After reading the required documents, I feel that I have a stronger grasp of what happened during Christopher Columbus arrival in America and the events that followed after. The first document are series of letters written by the king of Congo, Mzinga Afonzo, who converted to Christianity, to the king of Portugal. In the first few letters, king Afonzo expresses his concerns that the trade with Portuguese will eventually bring more harm than good to…

praised as a hero of their time? In this paper, reasons why Columbus’ discovery of the Americas did not make the world a better place will be explained. Native Americans were killed in the millions, alien plants and animals wiped out native foliage and game, and with the sudden boom of sugar, tobacco, and cotton plantations, slave demand grew exponentially. One excellent example of why Columbus’ discovery of the Americas had a negative impact was the immense decimation of Native…

ball not flat. When people read the map, then they can learn the history of the “Age of Discovery” in the 16th cemetery. Maps may be very different at the different time. Just like the video said, the reason why Christopher Columbus arrived South America but not Asian countries is because of the map. He wanted to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach Asia, but the information at that time was not clear at all.…

Contrast European Colony Development in North America With the discovery of North America, European countries realized they could benefit from the colonization and resources of this new land. Spain, France and England each had their own reasons why they wanted to colonize North America, and each countries strategy to do this was different from the others. England had a big advantage when it came to the colonization of North America; even though, this advantage led to the American…

critical retelling of an important epoch in Latin American history. In 1799, Alexander Von Humboldt reached Latin America, a place that through struggle and bloodshed would transform over the next forty years. In Americanos, Chasteen brilliantly shows every step that gradually transformed Latin America from the colonies Humboldt saw in 1799 to the drastically different Latin America of 1840. Americanos is well-organized and separated into six sections that help to make sense of all of the…

Due to biases in texts, the true nature of the events when Christopher Columbus came to the Americas is not common knowledge. When Christopher Columbus came to the America’s, with the help of the europeans, they murdered and enslaved Indigenous people to the point of extinction, that being the most notable of their atrocities committed. In a text by Joy Hakim called A History of US, she quotes an excerpt from Christopher Columbus’ personal journal. The texts reads, “They remained so much our…