The advantages are that The Europeans gave the Native American’s manufactured goods, like cloth, iron cookware, guns and tools. One of the main advantages of the European exploration in Native America was the Europe provided Native American tribes with very useful goods from Europe such as cloth, iron cookware, guns and tools. They did this in return for fur pelts for the French and Dutch. Conclusion After my research I realized that the Europeans have done no good to the Americans. They caused harm and lots of damage to the country and their culture and traditions.
The Columbian Exchange is often praised for the positive things that it brought about such as the exchange of new animals, plants, and food between the old world and new. However, not all aspects of the Columbian exchange were positive. According to Alfred Crosby, “the migration of man and his maladies is the chief cause of epidemics” (Crosby 37). In the article “The Columbian Exchange” by Alfred Crosby, many the outcomes from the voyage were detrimental to many cultures, most of all the Native Americans. Columbus’s arrival to the “New World” was the first act in a century’s long drama of colonization and conquest.
The Carolinas came later and was created and advertised as a location for the poor under-class to have a second chance at wealth. In those days wealth was measured in the amount of land that you owned so the untapped vastness of the Carolinas brought many a colonist over with hopes of rebirth. Caribbean also falls under the category of financial yearning as its profitable sugar market helped its English population to flourish and grow. Always present when discussing the matter of new colonization is the idea of religious “freedom”. The colonies of Georgia and Maryland were primarily
There was also the emergence of new governments that were more united and powerful than the feeble ones of the past. The main motivation was financial gain, there were stories of vast amounts of gold and other riches and settlements were needed in order to establish trade routes to the Far East. What made these settlements possible was advancements in ship building that made it possible to travel over the worlds vast oceans and also advances in navigation. According to Guns, Germs and Steel chapter 3 page 78 “Pizarro came to Cajamarca by means of European
World War I brought about enormous economic change to various parts of the world. Latin America was greatly affected in the aftermath of the World War economically. Latin America was not a heavily industrial economy. They were mainly a basic agricultural economy, with natural resource industries becoming much more important. Those natural resources were the mainly invested by the “Great Powers”, the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
During the occupation of British in India, they made a lot of profits due to the abundant resources in India. After British left, a civil war broke out in India. This was a fight between the Hindus and Muslims of India which ultimately led to the creation of India and Pakistan as two separate countries. I believe the British Imperialism hurt India and its people. The British Imperialism hurt Indian and its people because the British using India’s resources and living off the profits that were gained from there.
Though there are some beneficial events, it was an overall devastating era. After the war of 1812, the people of the United States felt enormous pride in winning a war against the almighty Britain and used their nationalism to inspire improvements, such as Henry Clay’s American system. It consisted of the Second National Bank, a strong banking system, the Tariff of 1816, which raised money for the protection of American manufacturing goods, and internal improvements such as networks that build roads and canals which made better transportation to flow foodstuffs and raw materials from west and south to north and east. This shows that America had become a more self-sufficient government and started growing its own national identities. Nationalism also helped the push for westward expansion and the Monroe Doctrine.
James Axtell discusses how large of an influence the Indians were in “Colonial America without the Indians”. Within Axtells text DeVoto goes to say that without the Indians, America would not be America as we know it. The interactions were hugely impactful. The contact with Indians taught us how to survive. They showed us how to farm, showed how to hunt effectively, introduced medicine, showed the Invaders where gold was, amongst other incredibly influential tasks.
Europeans survived in the Americas solely because of their relations with the Indians. Europeans would accrue great profits from trade with the Indians. The Indians, however, would suffer because of their contact with the Europeans. Whenever Indians would encounter their European counterparts, their dealings would almost ultimately result in violence and spread of disease. Based on the above, it is evident that only Europeans benefited from contact in North America.
Imported diseases took the worst tolls in less populated areas like the Aztec and Inca empires. These diseases were so easily transmissible that they hit areas before the first European explorers even arrived in the areas. When the epidemic diseases finally arrived in the Pacific islands, it had the same terrifying affects as the Americas. When it came to food and crops, the Columbian exchange increased the human population because of the spread of food crops and animals that it sponsored. A nourished world was an important factor in the growth of the world’s population, which began in the 18th century.