Effects Of The Collision At Cajamacra

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Collision at Cajamacra One of the greatest impacts on modern human history was the shift in the population which was essentially caused by the Europeans colonization of the New World. As the Europeans venture out to explore what to them meant to look at unknown and unclaimed land, they soon found out that the land was not without their inhabitants. This ultimately led to the meeting between Old World and New World which set in motion to conquer and claim the land and their people as their own. The effects had created the destruction and diminish of several thousand Native Indians groups whose contact of the New World had change everything they once knew. The collision at Cajamacra showed how in one dramatic moment between Old World and New …show more content…

It soon expanded out into Asia and because of the Norse it came to Europe. In 1492 A.D., the discovery made by Christopher Columbus of the Caribbean Islands had started the beginning of the collision between Old and New World societies. The collision at Cajamacra was one of many whose outcome had shared the same fate of their similar end. However, what makes this one different than the others was the capture of Atahuallpa. Atahuallpa was the Inca Emperor and, “absolute monarch of the largest and most advanced state in the New World,” and Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who was under the command of the most powerful monarch in Europe, King Charles I of Spain (Diamond, 68). According to Diamond, in November 16, 1532 Atahuallpa was capture within minutes by Pizarro, who held him for the largest ransom ever received in history until he was …show more content…

The case of the collision of Cajamarca brings forth to light the differences between Old World and New World societies. Our human ancestors from the beginning survive as hunters-gatherers but that change 10,000 years ago as the Holocene period sought to shift into food production. It was a new lifestyle, one that began with the rise of the Natufian culture. In lecture 10, it stated that, “Natufians were foragers who lived by hunting and gathering, but they had settled down and lived in particular locations” (Love, 10). The Natufian culture has been linked to have trade networks, however, cultivation evidence was found in Levant. Changes had become inevitable and sedentary people were trying to adapt to obtain food. The Neolithic Revolution was important in three ways: sedantism (Natufian), food production, and domestication (animal domestication was crucially important to Old World, not New World). The shift from hunter-gatherer to sedentary was gradual and slow that emerge from the Middle East and eventually spreading to Asia, Europe, and Northern African. Eventually, the effects of the Neolithic Revolution created agricultural advantages that help with the growth of population, trade, government, and

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