Essay On Guns Germs And Steel

Economically they didn’t have the vast trading networks that the Europeans had. They did have some reginal trade but not across the entire continent. I think had they had a larger trade system they could have helped each other out technologically increasing their ability to resist some of that conquest.

In the early 1400’s ,the Europeans began to have control over the world by setting colonies in the Americas, along the coast of Africa, and parts of southeast Asia. This is referred to as the Age of Exploration . This Age was  caused by advances in technology and it was motivated by the desire for glory, religion , and economic factors. The accomplishments of the European Age of Exploration were that ideas and goods were being exchanged, wealth allowed them better ships and navigation tools, and they had the chance to claim land and territories. These factors contributed in bringing a European Golden Age.

Illnesses such as smallpox killed the majority of Native American populations significantly weakening the Naive Americans allowing for Europeans to more easily conquer them. The transfer of crops from the Americas to Europe allowed for a more population growth and shaped their cuisine to this day. Potatoes and native to the Americas yet they are and were a staple of European diets, most notably the Irish. European discovery of resources in the Americas led to millions of African slaves being shipped to the Americas to work in mines or plantations. This widespread slave trade has influences race relations to this day.

First, the Europeans had the means to explore and colonize the New World mainly because of their advances in technology. As Schweikart put it, “a wide range of technologies coalesced to encourage long-range voyages of discovery.” For example, the Arabs’ development of the astrolabe helped sailors establish the sun’s altitude above the horizon. Vikings farther north introduced new methods of hull construction, allowing vessels to withstand violent ocean storms. Sailors on the Baltic coast tinkered with larger and more controlled ship designs. Improved ships

The New world gave the Old world many riches and foods. This allowed the European Culture to expand into more of an agricultural country, allowing the population to rise. Although the New world did receive an abundance of plaques and illnesses from the Old, it also gave the Old world syphilis. Giving the Europeans their first lethal sexually transmitted illness. Both the Native Americans and the Europeans had suffered from illness and disease. With the ships the Europeans had brought over the ocean they had along with them animals including horses, cows and pigs. This allowed the Natives to travel more on horseback and instead of hunting they could raise

In 1492, spice trade led to Europe's exploration and discovery of the Americas, their advanced weaponry allowed for the colonization of the Americas and also slave trade in Africa. Europe was on the verge of an economic explosion before this time and the Columbian Exchange and Triangular Exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas was the push they needed for their economy to boom. The Europeans began to grow wealthy at the expense of Africa and the Americas. The growing economy started to create a middle class and the Europeans began to see themselves as superior, socially and economically, especially

Europeans brought diseases to the Americas, such as smallpox and measles. The original descendants did not bring the diseases because they traveled through the cold and they had no domesticated animals. Many of these diseases were caused by domesticated animals. At

We are all aware of the fact that when the Europeans traveled to the New World, they conquered it. This has been taught to us throughout our lives. However, there are many theories as to why the Europeans dominated the New World. There may have been many factors that led to the fall of the people living in the New World. Thus, I believe the main three reasons I received, alliance that was formed, and disease that was contracted from the Europeans.

Answer 1.The environmental factor that promoted the Europeans to colonize other places is because the European people had a large population of people. Because of the large population of people there was limit supply of natural resources and available food supply to support the country. Furthermore, majority of the people in Europe was in poverty, this situation means that society did not have stability in the Europeans society. The supplies in Europeans were dwindling fast and they needed another alterative. For example, when people started to build dams, the fish population suddenly declined. Europeans lakes and rivers were dirty and the seas that surrounded them were starting to be depleted. Additionally, the fresh water supply started to decline, the rivers were not reliable for the farmers. As a result, this situation caused Europeans to look for other places to explore. Lastly the Europeans had a lot of wars which caused many issues. North American was and ideal place to settle and had an abundant supply of natural resources.

The investments that these new incomes went toward being that of a professional military. The military is a stronghold for these partially diminished countries. The military allowed them to take control of other countries, which in essence would give more revenues. One of the new militaries innovates for the Europeans was gunpowder due to the Chinese, Mongols that introduced the new technology.

Europeans explored and settled in the Americas all throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and were generally successful. Although there were a number of factors that contributed to European successes in the New World, biological exchange was foremost. Biological exchange was the most significant force behind Europeans’ success in the Americas because it helped Europeans to wipe out Native American peoples, both physically and culturally, and to introduce European practices and resources that would help Europeans to flourish in the New World.

There were many large-scale transformations that the European empires generated. One of the many examples of the transformations would be the fall of the Native American civilizations. When the Europeans started to build their empire, the Native American population started to fall. Another example would be that the European and African peoples started to construct new societies within the Americas. Silver mines in Mexico and in Peru started the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean trade. The Europeans also exchanged plants and animals with the Americas

Europeans brought many new technologies to the countries that they imperialized. They built railroads and other types of

In the book “Ecological Imperialism; The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon “ written by Alfred W. Crosby explores domination of Europeans in the western domain. He refers the early Europeans as “Neo-Europe’s” (Neo-Europe’s are places in the temperate zones of the world in which they are most like Europe.) giving importance on areas like North America, South America, Australia and New-Zealand. In his introduction of the story. He stresses his point whether the Europeans dominated their atmosphere and culture because of their use of technology. "European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place...They compose the majority of those very few nations on this earth that consistently, decade after decade,

The diseases, plants, and animals moving with the Europeans were the significant factor in European expansion. “No single influence can have been more destructive than disease, which works its way through a susceptible population irresistibly, taking advantage of every flaw, choking out lives day and night” this quote should be taken into consideration because diseases has the ability to wipe out an area of a population rather than using military power to persecute a group. Europeans did not only spread diseases and bring more animals but they’re culture and beliefs were also spread out. Crosby argues that the success of the Europeans and sometimes failure, is directly linked to science. Through this argument, he observes the similarity of ropes between Europe and its Neo-Europe’s. It is this tool that they used to command superiority in the Neo-European zones. Another point made by Crosby is to that through diseases Europeans brought, the ability in an area to control its population and dominate it, and how the way that the earth formed after the breakup of Pangaea benefited Europeans. “People from complex, dense civilizations carry a broader range of diseases and immunities than people of less dense civilizations. Crosby mentions Europeans did not simply discover and settled in the new earth. Instead, they brought with them some components of the “old world” which included flora and fauna to create a new breed of humans described as “Neo-Europes” When the two come into contact, the latter usually end up the sickest. Alfred Crosby also makes a very convincing argument that the locations in which the Europeans chose to conquer and exploit played an enormous role in the success of European imperialism for example like the new world and the fur