Christopher Columbus Disease

Christopher Columbus is famously known for the discovery of America. And who is famously known for the following saying" Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492". Christopher Columbus was born in the city of Genoa, Italy. Christopher was supposed to follow his father's footsteps and become a wool weaver. But instead, Columbus became interested in the sea. According to the book by Bonnie Bader, the Genoa port was a busy port on the Mediterranean Sea. Christopher grew up and became a strong and very skilled man, and who also became a map maker along with his brother Bartolome. one day while in the map store Christopher heard about finding new routes from Europe to Easter lands known as the indies. Their goal was to find spices such as pepper, ginger, cloves, cinnamon as well as precious metals such as gold. With this in mind finding a new route to India became his number one goal. But this goal became very hard to achieve due to the fact that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were not very convinced about Christopher's plan and

Culture wasn’t the only thing that the Europeans brought over to the Americas. Along with their customs and rules, came the diseases that the Native American’s have never been exposed to. The Europeans brought many communicable diseases such as small pox and measles which were transmitted to the Native Americans through trade goods or someone infected with them. This quickly annihilated most of the Native American population.

The problem of epidemics like smallpox, measles, and other European, Asian, and African diseases negatively affected the abilities of Native Americans to resist the invasions by Europeans. These sicknesses made native peoples too weak to resist. This pattern was no different in North, South, and Central America. As Europeans entered the lands, so did the diseases and they spread, causing the natives to become weak enough for the Europeans to easily invade.

Disease was a major factor in the change of the Native American culture. When the Europeans came they brought diseases that the Native Americans immune systems had never faced before. These diseases wiped most of the Native Americans. Some of the diseases were Smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever. However there was one disease that was taken back to Europe, and that was Syphilis. The diseases brought to the New World weakened the Native American population so they were easier to conquer by people like Pizarro and Cortes.

Even though Columbus did find his way to the Americas, it was not North America he discovered. In fact, he never stepped foot in the United States during his four expeditions. Columbus actually made landfall in various islands located in what is now known as the Bahamas, which had hundreds of thousands Native American inhabitants that had already made

Prior to the European invasion into the Native American culture, Native Americans did not have to worry about deadly diseases (Brands 5). On page 5 of the reading, it says, "Although Native Americans experienced illnesses such as tuberculosis, they no longer suffered the major epidemics that under normal conditions would have killed much of their population every year" (Brands 5). Clearly, due to the rarity of major diseases spreading within the Native American lands, Native Americans themselves would be unable to manage any kind of potential epidemic that may arise. Consequently, by the time Europe had invaded what later to be was called America, many deadly diseases began to spread, and these diseases affected the Native American population

People have had this concept in their mind that there were no people in America before Christopher Columbus made his trip to America. This misconception can be backed up with a lot facts from primary sources. For example, The McGraw Hill Discovering Our Past textbook explains one of the early people in America who were the nomads. They were people that moved from place to place in search of food. The Olmec, The Maya, and the Aztec were also groups of people that were in America centuries before Columbus was even born. Lastly, of course our Native Americans were officially the first one to discover America and live in it.

Christopher Columbus known today as an infamous explorer begged many times for a journey to the East Indies, and was turned down for ships. Finally the Spanish queen had given three ships to sail for the journey, after Columbus said he was going to Italy for assistance. Later in the year 1492, Columbus sailed to the East Indies only to land in the island of Hispaniola, in America. This voyage involved three small ships, the Pinzon, the Nina, and the Santa Maria commanded by Columbus himself. All ships had left Spain, on August,3,1492 and arrived in Hispaniola months later on December, 3,1492. Believing he was in the East Indies, when meeting the natives he falsely named them “Indians”. In the history of Modern America, Americans regard Columbus as an amazing explorer and hero even though he was exaggerated with being not the true founder of America, with his horrible treatments to natives, and with his

Columbus' voyage was originally to find a shorter trade route to India when he accidentally landed in the Bahamas and frankly, Columbus did not even know he had discovered the New World. He truly believed that he made it all the way to India. Because of this, he even named the natives of this land "Indians".

Before the European colonization of America, each continent had their own separate diseases and illnesses. When the two lands made contact, the Native Americans were not accustomed to smallpox and were devastated by this new disease since they knew of no remedies or cure. De Sahagun writes that “...many [Native Americans] were disabled or paralyzed by it, but they were not disabled forever,” and that “The Mexica warriors were greatly weakened by it. ” This caused the militias of the Native Americans to be fragile and allowed for the Spaniards to push forward in their invasion of the new land. The African people had their own diseases as well, however, the impact was not as forceful as the effect of smallpox. This small environmental factor was key in deciding the fate of further European

Despite all of this the Native American people still got sick due to the lack of respiratory hygiene. The Europeans brought a number of germs and diseases with them, that surely turned into great outbreaks. Many Indians contracted these diseases and died, ironically enough the Indian individuals who acquired the disease have not yet met a European. The ailment was passed on inland by distant neighbors. Native Americans took very good care of each

A consequence of the first contact was that many Europeans had brought disease into the world. “Before 1492 Native Americans had never been exposed to smallpox, measles, malaria, or yellow fever”. Europeans lived in close proximity to animals that acted as disease victims and suffered outbreaks more than once. Native Americans didn’t have immunity with the diseases because they never had experienced what europeans were diagnosed as childhood diseases. Native Americans that got smallpox, measles, influenza, chicken pox, and typhoid had high fevers and ended up dying quickly. “In some cases, people who were sick may have otherwise survived if provided with basic care.” The First Nations weren’t prepared with quality health care during this time

Before the Europeans came to North America in 1492 people were already Indigenous to the land. When the Europeans arrived in North America the Natives welcomed them. They took them into their homes and allowed them

Thousands years prior to crossing paths with the Europeans, the Native Americans had invented creative cultures. They found ways to use plants for multiple purposes including medications, food and dyes. They established a way to domesticate animals to suit their needs. They built cities, produced monuments and even developed a working political order. Native Americans were able to not only adapt to the changing environmental conditions, but they did it in a way that worked in their favor every time. They only began struggling to preserve their cultures when the Europeans became a factor in it. The Europeans brought along deadly illnesses such as Measles, mumps, whooping cough. The Native Americans became very susceptible to these illnesses

When the Europeans came to North America, they carried numerous diseases with them. Keep in mind that the Europeans traveled by ship for months and some ships had an infestation of rats and mosquitoes. Vaccinations did not exist during the Exploration years so, explorers and the Natives had diseases of small pox, pneumonia, and yellow fever. The Native Americans were dying by the numbers because of the European diseases that they came into contact with the Europeans. Several Native American tribes had healers which the Europeans thought were Doctors. The Native Americans used nuts, berries, and certain plants to heal either a snakebite, scratch, wounds from animal attacks, and skin diseases. The Europeans thought that some of the Indian practices were witchcraft because of the heavy European Christian beliefs. The Native Americans actually helped to cure several European diseases. When the first Colonists of Virginia arrived, the population was declining because of the disease and starvation. As time went on, the immigrants from Europe began to increase due to the Civil War, crowded population, or famine.