How Did European Colonization Affect The New World

The columbian exchange was the most helpful for the europeans (especially spain) because they gained new valuable supplies like gold and new crops that increased popluation tremedously. It also created money-based stimulation. Population increase led to establishing homes and having complete control over areas. Africa no longer had a hold on gold, their population staggered, communities became ghost towns and the Columbian Exchange marked the rise of the slave trade. The Americas got deadly diseases, and new orders enforced on them etc.

Age of Exploration Before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, many believed the world only consisted of Europe, Northern Africa, the Indies, Japan, and China. The Age of Discovery happened inadvertently as countries were trying to find a faster trade route to the Indies. Portugal and Spain led the Age of Exploration as Portugal set off to find a trade to the Indies by sailing south of Africa. Spain then followed as Christopher Columbus suggested an idea to the Spanish Monarchs. He wanted to sail west to get to the east, and he had no idea what he had discovered.

In 1450-1750, labor systems FIFREIF. Latin American created the encomienda system, a form of forced labor, in which Spaniards demanded labor from conquered Native inhabitants. Western Europeans adapted and expanded the African slave trade, using Africans to work in forced labor. In both cases slaves were used for agricultural work. However, the form of which the slaves were acquired are

The Colombian Exchange affected the New World by blending goods from the Old World with New World. It brought new resources, such as plants and animals to both the New and Old Worlds. However it also started the spread of diseases.

The Spanish Empire’s Impact on the New World Christopher Columbus first set foot on the shores of what would later be known as the Americas, not knowing the profound impact it would have. This event marked the beginning of the Spanish’s dominance in what would be called the New World. This moment led to the Spanish attempting to exploit and explore the Americas. The Spanish later dominated numerous colonies in the New World, achieving economic power and centralized control. Additionally, the Spanish spread their customs, beliefs, and faith throughout the regions they colonized.

In the Spanish colonies the encomienda system setup slavery in the form of labor to the natives. In the Spanish colonies, the natives were set under the encomienda system where the natives were used as slaves for their “protection,” in return for their labor. The natives were also forced to undergo a conversion in religion under this system. The Spanish soldiers believed natives were only fit to be tortured and killed. If the natives did not convert, the Spanish would torture and kill natives.

The rise of food production may make the Columbian Exchange seem like it was beneficial to America, but the combination of the depopulation and the rise of the production of food led to harsh exploitation of different people groups (Nunn, Qian). The introduction of new plants required more work from native workers in the plantations (Nunn, Qian). This led Europeans to employ the Encomienda system, in which the colonists, mostly the Spanish colonists, received a grant by the Spanish Crown to have the right to demand forced labor from the Native Americans (Crosby). Even though it was created with the intention of caring and helping the natives, it turned into a destructive system, in which the natives were to be regarded as part of the property

labor. Eventually, this had lead to Spain’s failure and resulted in a time of "rapid inflation

Europe, Africa, and North and South America societies were permanently changed by the movement of goods, people, and wealth in the late 17th and 18th centuries; by doing this it pushed the world closer to globalization. The biggest influence on this drive was referred to as ‘the Atlantic Circuit’, a triangular trade between Western Africa, the West Indies, and Western Europe. This circuit opened up so many industries of agriculture, mostly because of the quick growth of the Atlantic slave trade, but in the end drastically changed the economies of all involved. The Colonization, in combination with the agriculture industries renovated the land of the Americas, and influenced nutrition and diets around the world. Not to mention that the capitalist

From the notes, we took in class the explorers used the Encomienda system to take advantage of the natives. The natives had to do labor and in exchange, they would be protected as long as they agreed to be taught the ways of Christianity. If the natives failed to do so they were either beaten or killed. This rule is very unfair because these people are getting taken advantage of, mainly because they had no choice. The Explorers came to the “New World” basically steal their resources and make them do the work to steal it.

It was in the 1500s that conflict and struggle began between the Spanish and the Native Americans of the New World. The Spanish practiced mercantilism, which means they thought the colonies were required to provide the materials Europeans needed to export profitable goods. The Spanish economy soon declined due to inflation of prices, which in turn, led them to rely on colony plantations for tobacco and sugarcane. This required a massive quantity of workers, so King Charles I of Spain's granted an encomienda system, which gave the Spanish colonists the right to demand the Indians to work as slaves. In 1519, the encomienda system became overpopulated. As more and more natives were introduced to Europeans, they were also exposed to foreign diseases

However, they would be condemned to forced labor while living on the Spaniards conquered lands, or encomienda’s. When the conquistadors came and took the land they were bound by the Crown to collect taxes in the form of resources. After conquering the land, a majority of the conquistadors became the encomenderos of that same land. Although the Crown did not want to enslave the natives they still needed a system of forced labor so they chose encomienda, in return they provided protection to the natives of the land they took over. The Crown considered this a fair exchange yet they required the natives to work and practice the catholic religion while under the protection of the encomenderos.

Impacts of European expansion reached across the world and affected more than the expanding European powers and their colonies in the new world. Life in the world changed when these two cultures that were directly opposite of one another collided. Europe was filled with greed for resources and wealth, the Indigenous people living on these resources were living a simple sustainable life with next to no government or regulation. Once the new world was set up Europeans who ran these new territories called colonists today developed their own society and way of living and would end up revolting against the homeland.

The time period between the 1600s and 1700s was a time of a major change in the land of the New World. The colonization of Europeans into the North America had considerable impacts on the Native American lives. European empire at the time, such as the French, England and Spanish empires, often fought against each other for power and control. After the European tried to colonized, the Native American suddenly found themselves dealing with European power politics. The arrival of Europeans into the New World meant new political relationships for both the European and the Native Americans. Each side had thing to gain and loss in this kind of relationship, especially military alliances and new trade goods. European power politics and rivalries were a major factor in the development of European and Native American relations because they created relationships of mutually beneficial relationships of trade and alliances.

Even though I believe that both sides benefited from this exchange, the Europeans clearly were the winners. The Europeans brought some goods that were beneficial to the New World, while sending back new goods to the Old World. As far as introducing the use of these goods to different parts of the world, everyone was a winner. What made the Europeans the clear winners were the fact that they were the ones that introduced so many new diseases and germs to the people who lived in the New World. Whatever their numbers, the Indian populations suffered a catastrophic decline because of contact with Europeans and their wars, enslavement, and especially diseases like smallpox, influenza, and measles (Foner 22). Never having encountered these diseases,