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Compare And Contrast The Effects On Native Americans And The New World

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When Worlds Collide The Spanish, French and English employed different strategies for colonizing and converting the New World. The effects on natives and the New World environment mainly affected food and resources, peoples, and religion. The strategies employed by the Spanish, French and English caused differences in how the relationships developed between the peoples of the Old and New Worlds.
When the Spanish arrived to the New World they brought crops of wheat, sugar, rice, and coffee. Europeans also introduced horses, cows and pigs. In turn the Native Americans gifted the Old World with gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, beans, vanilla and chocolate. The amount of silver in Europe tripled from the introduction of …show more content…

Specifically, native populations were afflicted with smallpox, bubonic plague, influenza, scarlet fever, measles and several other diseases. In return the New World gave syphilis. Since the Spanish only brought male soldiers, they procreated with the native Indians. Initially, the Spaniards tried to force the indigenous people into slavery, their customs, religion, and way of life. Eventually, the Spaniards became the best at incorporating the native customs within their own customs, merging two civilizations into a unique new one. The French trappers and soldiers, also male, had a more cooperative relationship with the native peoples, willing to learn from the natives, trade with the natives, and live among the natives. They chose native Indians as their mates and regarded the natives as their trading partners. However, the English tended to bring their own wives and shunned the language, customs, and populations of the native population. Therefore, the English mixed their heritages less than the Spanish and French. As the mixed race children were raised, they inherited not only the genes of two races but the language, laws, and customs of both races, integrating

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The French traded differently and trade exchanges would be timely affairs this lead to the French taking native wives; therefore, evolving Métis people. The Native peoples began dependent on firearms, ammunition, and European food, as they spent all of their time hunting for the Europeans; therefore, they did not have time to provide for their tribes. Traditional the economy was

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The Columbian Exchange between the new world and the old world significantly change people’s lives. After 1492, Europeans brought in horses to America which changes the nomadic Native American groups’ living from riding on buffalos to horses. This interchange also change the diet of the rest of the world with foods such as corns (maize), potatoes which are major diet for European nowadays. 
Besides all the animals from old world to the new world, Spanish also brought in the diseases that Native Americans were not immune of, such as smallpox which led to a large amount of Native Americans’ deaths.

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The Europeans were introduced to the New World in 1492 by Christopher Columbus. Columbus was sailing to find a new trade route to Asia,to spread religion & for glory. It impacted both the New and the Old Wolrd in many ways. The Europeans found new land to take over and the Native Americans in the New World were introduced to diseases, and many of their cultures were

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Prior the Columbian Exchange, Europeans were not able to grow any crops in their cold climates. With the Columbian exchange, Europeans were able to grow corn, potatoes, beans, avocados, tomatoes, and pumpkins. Corn was the most useful crop that was brought back because it was able to grow in the cold weather. With the increase of food and favorable growing seasons the population of the world began to grow.

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Among the new technologies they brought included sailing ships, wheeled vehicles, firearms, iron technology, and more. The New World was also introduced to horses and other domesticated animals that improved farming. In addition, ancient American items traveled to the Old World. Europeans were exposed for the first time to New World foods like potatoes and corn, which became European staples. The Old World also benefitted because they were able to establish ports and plantations on fertile New World grounds to facilitate exchange and production of goods.

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These things brought many changes to both the New World and the Old World. For example, the plants that were brought into Europe had many effects in the way the Europeans say them as. For example, Long-Solis (2003) said, “Maize and beans, subsistence crops throughout much of the Americas, prospered well in the Mediterranean Basin. Tomatoes and chili peppers adapted easily to the new atmosphere.” All these plants brought into the Europeans had an effect in the European diet.

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The New World and the Old World each brought their own concepts of nature to create a new agricultural system. It was clear to see that "crops with higher caloric value", such as the potato "allowed people to work harder because they were more energized" (Columbian Exchange). The New World provided Europe with healthier food options such as corn and beans. Not only did crops play an important role in the Columbian exchange, animals were another key component in the rebirth of the

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The Spanish, being mainly or entirely Catholic, brought their religious views to the New World. The Spanish used force in their attempt to convert all indigenous people. The natives that did not convert were killed, tortured or both. The Spanish saw this as cleansing the natives of their old ways and allowing them to be reborn. The southern

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In contrast, the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs and Incas much quicker. Some of this was due to help they received from other groups of Natives and the situations that were present in these societies when the Spanish arrived. Most of this was due to the debilitating effects European diseases had on Native Americans. Another difference between the two groups’ interactions is the different ways the Africans and Native Americans reacted to the Europeans’ presence. Since the Americas had been isolated from the rest of the world before 1492, they did not know how to react to the arrival of the Europeans and were frightened by how different they were.

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In addition, Foner states, “New France witnessed considerable cultural exchange and intermixing between colonial and native populations.” The relationships the French strived to create and develop led to a cultural exchange between the peoples. In truth, France may have only been kind to gain a profit, however, their relations with the Native Americans truly benefited from their kind

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As the Europeans found native along the coasts of the New World, they found them easily malleable and able to be used, so they enslaved them and those who fought back were wiped out. Europeans, as well as the Africans, had built up a resistance to many diseases such as smallpox and were therefore not really affected as much by the diseases if they became sick. However, the Native Americans had not had contact with the disease and it quickly spread rapidly and slowly helped the Spanish rid themselves of the natives so they could take control of the land. Geoffrey Cowley offers insight on just how profound the effect of smallpox was when he writes, “ ...When the newcomers arrived carrying mumps, measles, whooping cough, smallpox, cholera, gonorrhea and yellow fever, the Indians were immunologically

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