The Columbian Exchange in the Americas: Change Over Time The Americas were influenced by many different factors. These factors led to the population dropping and population skyrocketing. Advancing technology and biology made an impact as well. From 1492 to around 1750 societies from Europe and Africa greatly influenced and changed the Americas. The Europeans introduced a deadly wave of small pox and the measles, where slaves from Africa were brought over to grow and harvest sugar cane.
Slavery began in North American; the first black slaves were brought to settlements in Virginia. It is believed that at first, these slaves were thought of as the white servants brought over from Europe. However, the black servants were treated differently than the white servants, and then were considered slaves. Europeans sometimes justified their slave trade with the fact that Africa had their own slave system. However, The European slave trade was much more cruel, whereas the African system was similar to the European feudal system.
The Texians became quite displeased with Mexico’s shift towards centralism and their abolition of slavery in 1831. The Mexicans were also becoming quite peeved, as America had already tried to procure Texas for some time. The Mexican authorities mainly blamed the Texain disturbance on American immigrants since the majority of them didn't even try to acclimate themselves to Mexican culture. The Texians cracked first. They engaged Mexican troops in October of 1836, starting the first official battle pf the Texas Revolution.
Clash of cultures When looking at the clash of three different groups like the Europeans, the Indians and the west Africans, and their different beliefs and religions, it is clear to see how there was so much war, blood shed, disease and death. The Natives lived here in what the Europeans called the new world for many years before the Europeans even thought of coming to what is now called North America. There were many different tribes spread out all over the land from Canada to South America and down through Brazil. Many of the tribes lived off the land in different ways depending on their location, some grew crops, others hunted and some fished. Some tribes were violent and always at war others believed that piece and kindness was the way.
Explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean islands in 1492, sparking a wave of exploration that would have extreme consequences for the people who lived there at that time. His encounters in the Americas with Native Americans started a repetitive cycle of encounter, conquest, and death throughout the Western Hemisphere. Columbus first had very friendly relationships with the Taino people, but that soon changed. The Tainos offended the Spanish and failed to pay proper respect to Christian symbols and Columbus felt he had authority over them and could decide their fate. The Spanish forced Native Americans to convert to Christianity.
During these arrival of European explorers, they began a new era of disease within the villages and caused the death of hundreds and hundreds of Natives. Although, they were not the only one to introduce disease and death, the Natives passed on death as
The first people recorded living there were Native Americans called the Jaradite Nation. A few years after Columbus’s discovery, citizens from Europe came over to the Americas and made it a colony under Europe’s rule. The movement was peaceful until the Europeans became greedy for land and started pushing the Native Americans westward across America. While trying to take care of all the land the colony’s inhibitors kept getting sick. To solve the workload problem, colonist started importing Africans to make them work cruelly making America what it is today.
The Indians did not really differentiate the Europeans and the slaves that they brought with them to the newly discovered lands. The Indians seemed to view them as both as outsiders coming into their territory. The French was the first to settle into Mississippi and with them they brought slaves with them to work the lands. The French settled
Even when some where free, spanish enslaved indians around the Americas in order to create a faster way to profit themselves. In addition, slave indian migrations took place soon after the decline of some natives population around the andean region. To make matter worst, Portugal who first introduce african slave migrations in New Espanola expanded slavery trade around the globe into brazil who needed worker in their sugar fields. The introduction of slavery reduced the other labor forces; nevertheless, it didn't really work in all the Americas. For example, Mexico and Peru who had incorporated slaves as primary agricultural labor force had a less common slavery rate than Portugal/Spain did in Cuba and Portugal in Brazil.
These cures were mostly attempted by plant or herb remedies and often failed to provide protection for the Indian population. Trade routes also help spread disease through the native American population. In 1585, when disease started showing a pattern of its presents it occurred strange to the native American population according to Thomas Hariot. He also stated that they neither knew what it was, nor how to cure it. In the case of the pueblo Indians from new Mexico, a small pox