Western Europe’s expansion of Atlantic trade, through exploration and colonization, not only improved their own economy, but also the economy of America, through sharing new trade products and crops as well as beginning the slave trade. Western Europe began exploring other parts of the world around the mid-1400s. They first started out with primarily explorers from Portugal and Spain. Some of these people were Christopher Columbus, Francisco
When the greatest Aztec city, Tenochtitlan, was conquered, the first phase of the Spanish conquest was completed. New Spain was established after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521. The Spanish came to North America because they wanted to spread Christianity overseas and gain riches and wealth. The lands brought under their control were of unprecedented wealth. This was an
Chapter 14 Id’s Chapter Thesis: From 1450 to 1750, three regions: the Americas, Europe, and Africa impacted the world for the good as the exchanged goods, ideas, culture, but most importantly this mixing resulted in new people of the world with mixed races and new cultures, crops, economy, etc. 1) The Great Dying “The Great Dying” consisted of the Native American societies. The Great Dying was a phenomenon and was quoted “surely the greatest tragedy in the history of the human species.” In essence it was the demographic effect of diseases brought by Europeans on the Americas. It occurred between 1450 and 1750. It occurred on lands from Mesoamerica to the Caribbean islands.
The largest continuity experienced during this time was the idea of exploration and expansion. Spurred by Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas in 1492, others countries, besides Spain, began to send their own fleets and voyages over to the New World to claim land for their mother countries. The strong demand that European countries still had for sugar and raw materials was another reason that journeys across the Atlantic took place. As those raw materials were gathered and sent back to Europe, the idea of mercantilism became increasingly prominent towards the end of the 16th century, especially in the North American
When Columbus made landfall in 1492, he began a international commerce known as the Columbian Exchange which had both positive and negative effects. according to An interview about Christopher Columbus and the religious motivations for his journey by Alton Pelowski, The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery by Christopher Columbus, The Christopher Columbus Controversy: Western Civilization vs. Primitivism by Michael Berliner, Columbus, and his contributions to exploration were a positive development, both in the immediate and future, for the development of western civilization. In An Interview about Christopher Columbus and the Religious Motivations on His Journey by Alton Pelowski, Christopher Columbus is viewed as a positive American figure. To begin with, Christopher Columbus was a positive figure because of his eagerness to evangelize native americans. This is shown through the words of Delaney “ He was very much interested in evangelizing.
After making this agreement, Spain and Portugal increased their voyages of exploration in search of wealth,power,and glory. (10) 3 European goals for exploration [pic] The three goals of the European Explorations were: 1) they wanted to spread Christianity through missionaries in the Americas. 2) They wanted to expand their empires. 3) They wanted to become rich by increasing their wealth. European nation would increase in power and security.
There was a culture exchange, between the two landmasses. Europeans had brought over disease that the natives had no immunity. The diseases included influenza, measles, small pox, and typhus. These diseases killed millions “in the Maya area of Mexico, as much as 95 percent of the population perished.” (American Civ to 1914, 13-14). Another big cultural exchange was with crops.
Continuties and Changes in Western Europe Between 500-1500 C.E, Western Europe experienced political changes in which there was an increase in urbanization and an expansion of land that all led to an overall reform that helped strengthen the European society. However, through much of the development in Western European political foundations, the religion of Christianity continued to be a driving force of power throughout the empire. As Western Europe continued to grow in population, citizens started to leave the manor system and venture into cities for trade and specialization which led to an increase in urbanization. People in the manor system experienced the leadership of a lord in the setting of a large plot of land that was self-sufficient
Literarily from 1492, Native Indians began to die in big numbers, either from war, enslavement, brutal mistreatment despair, or disease. While the Europeans have a more structured language and written literature, Native Americans spoke a wide range of languages which belongs to entirely different linguistic families (e.g., Athacaspan, Uto-Aztecan, Chinookan, Siouan, and Algonquian) and structured the societies in a very diverse form. By contrast to the Europeans, the Great Basin of the West, the Utes living in small, loosely organized bands are subsistence by hunting and gathering, while the inactive Pueblo peoples of the south west and the Iroquoians of the Northeast had highly developed agricultural economies and complex modes of political organizations. They also held diverse religious and mythological beliefs. It has been documented that among North American people alone, eight different types of creation stories existed and most of them quite different from Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
The entire Métis community took part in these hunts. The Red River carts essentially instituted the great buffalo hunts (Vrooman, 2003). Since the Métis lived on the settlements along the Red River, they had to travel a long distance to hunt, and without the Red River carts this would not be possible. The use of the Red River carts to and from these hunts increased the efficiency of transporting not only the Métis themselves, but also more hides and meat could be brought back home for food and materials. There have been many instances in history where large numbers of Métis people and Red River carts have been cited.