How did European contact change the Americas?
[2023-10-05 12:56:41]
The exchange of Colombia is a way to understand the impact of contact between Europe and America since 1492. Before 1492 there was contact between the two hemispheres, but since the year was not sustained or systematic, the impact of the contact was not immediately apparent.
Contacts between the Americas and Europe have obvious winners and losers. The Europeans are winners, winning wealth in the form of new high-calorie foods such as gold and other goods, potatoes, maize, turkey, etc., exploding the population of Europe. Unfortunately, the Native American people are losers.
One of the main problems that Europeans bring to the "new world" is influenza, small variola, measles. As indigenous peoples have never been exposed to these diseases, it is estimated that between generations or children have not established immunity, 90% of the population will die within a few years from the initial contact. This influence is known as "virgin infectious disease".
Europeans also brought invasive species flora and fauna. Various domestic animals, including chickens, horses and cows, reach and destroy local plants and often compete with local animals for resources. So far, pigs are the most devastating to the local environment, often eating in the wilderness, eating all visible things, and carrying diseases spread to local animals and humans.
Culturally, Europeans have thoughts on capitalism, Christianity, female obedience, private property, and a central family structure. Interestingly, the Colombian exchange changed American and European culture tremendously and permanently. For example, consider the importance of tomatoes (American crops) to Italian food culture and the cultural importance of horses (European animals) to certain tribes in the western United States.
The influence of Europeans in North America overrides the relationship with Blackfoot Alliance. The first merchant in Europe did not meet black people until the middle of the 18th century, but the horses brought to North America by the Spanish arrived probably through western trade between 1725 and 1731. Almost at the same time, they received guns from neighboring countries. Cree and Asiniboine traders. During the most part of the 18th and 19th centuries, the black legs of the equestrian occupied their hunting area and almost always fought against Cree, Asiniboine, Crow, NezPercé, Shoshone and other countries. They often visit the North Saskatchewan River Hudson Bay Company and the Northwestern Company, but fight against southern American catchers and free traders until the 1870 American Army of Eli, Montana today. About 173 Picatinians were massacred at the fort. US military officer. Pikani witnesses said the death toll is about 220 people.
In October 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived in the Bahamas. Since then, the people who live in the Western hemisphere of the Europeans, now the Americas, the continent known as the Americas, have built a permanent connection with them. The encounter took many forms and made reply from all parties. These reactions are greatly influenced by the environment and the world view of indigenous peoples like the European goals and values. Hernando Cortés and Spanish soldiers face Indians. In Flanders Duran. La Historia Antigua de la Nueva España. 1585 years. The fierce confrontation between the Spaniards under Cortez and the followers of Moctezuma was handled entirely by his father, Duran, in the history of Mexico, written right after the conquest of the early 16th century.