Differences Throughout The Age Of Exploration

Entry 1: What were the differences in the way Indians were treated between the different countries? In the Europeans eyes, Indians were known as inferior and the Europeans acted as if the Indians were actually the primitive species. Considering the Indians had a different lifestyle than the Europeans and the Europeans were more advanced in their technology and political structure, made the Indians inherently less than. Compared to the treatment of the Europeans toward the INdians, the Spanish were much more courteous.

While Europeans believed that land could and should be owned by the individual, Natives believed that everyone had the right to land considering their lives were shaped by the seasons, overall leading them to a nomadic lifestyle. With the Natives only believing in land being territorially owned while Europeans believed in the purchase or granting of land, conflicts were sure to arise. 6As soon as the Europeans stepped upon the shores of New England, they were passively killing Native Americans. Europeans carrying pathogens would begin to harm natives unknowingly, Cronon wrote: “The 1633 epidemic saw mortalities in many villages reach 95 percent” (Cronon 87) showing the range of how much the diseases affected the Natives.

The Columbian Exchange In 1492, Columbus first steeped onto the continent of the Americas, marking the begging of the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange has a far reaching impact on both eastern and western hemispheres. Thereby, the discovery of the New World led to the introduction of Native American slaves and corns in the Old World, and the introduction of horses, smallpox, Christianity and Encomienda System in the New World. It greatly changed the lives of both Europeans and Native Americans.

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.

When the settlers of Europe first came to the new world, they were introduced to the Native Americans. The settlers wanted the Natives to follow their culture and its benefits such as education, religion, and the usage of the environment. The Native Americans refused the request, stating they have their own type of culture, believing it to be the most superior; as a result, the Natives’ statement angered the ethnocentric settlers. Consequently, this caused a conflict between the two groups because of their culture differences. Firstly, the main culture difference consists of religion, tradition, and way of living.

Between the period 1500-1800, Christianity made its way to the Americas, changing many societies in Latin America. The overall cause for the expansion of the Christian faith was the Western Schism, the split in the Roman Catholic Church, which resulted in lots of tension for the Christian faith and pressure on the Church to spread the word. A little later, the New World had been discovered and Europeans were beginning to come to the New World. Here, the Europeans brought disease, chattel slavery, and their faith, referred to as the Columbian Exchange. Those Europeans began to make efforts to westernize the New World as well as the indigenous people, which resulted in the Christian faith to be encouraged to the point that indigenous people were

In conclusion, the Spanish enslaved the Indians, overworking them to the point of death, while preaching that their religion would set them free. Let us state how the “atrocities of the Spanish conquistadors against the Taino Indians [had caused them to flee] to another island.” The Taino Indians were chased off of their own land and Chief Hatuey was “captured and sentenced to burn at the stake for having organized an uprising against the

These new settlers knew that Native Americans would be important, in order for them to be successful in the new land. Europeans wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity. The Europeans looked for ways to gain economic control and they thought that religion with play an important role in this. Disease and infection were a huge problem for the Native American people after the settlers came. The Native Americans had never been exposed to these types of infections and diseases before and experience a decrease in their population as family members died from this.

In the 16th Century, Spain became one of the European forces to reckon with. To expand even further globally, Spanish conquistadors were sent abroad to discover lands, riches, and North America and its civilizations. When the Spanish and Native American groups met one another, they judged each other, as they were both unfamiliar with the people that stood before them. The Native American and Spanish views and opinions of one another are more similar than different because when meeting and getting to know each other, neither the Spaniards nor the Native Americans saw the other group of people as human. Both groups of people thought of one another as barbaric monsters and were confused and amazed by each other’s cultures.

As the conquistadors came to the New World they encountered the many different clusters of native peoples such as the Maya, Inca, and the Aztec native groups. After and during the conquering of these native peoples, the Spaniards brought colonists as well as representatives of the Catholic Church to the New World. The Catholic Church played a large part in the conquering of the new world by driving their way into the native world and converting the indigenous people as well as weakening the resistance making it easier for the Spanish to take rule and maintain their rule for three hundred years. The Catholic Church played a large role in the ruling of the native’s homeland. One of the first contributions they made to the ruling of

Throughout the colonization of the New World, Spanish conquistadors and priests were united in their belief that it was Spain's absolute right to establish Christianity in the Americas. However, there were differing opinions on the best methods for converting the indigenous peoples into Spanish subjects. Though Spanish conquistadors and priests never questioned Spain’s absolute right to establish Christianity in the New World, there were disagreements over the proper methods used to convert Indians into Spanish subjects. On one hand, some believed that violence and coercion were necessary to force the conversion of the native populations.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set out on an expedition to find riches in a new land and ended up on the coast of America. Initially, he thought he had finally discovered a new world, when in reality the land had been inhabited by civilization that had crossed the Berling Strait from Asia into America. They had occupied America for tens of thousands of years before Columbus arrived. However, Columbus believed that he had reached the East Indies, so he referred to the inhabitants as Indians. Due to Columbus’ geographical misunderstanding, the inhabitants were wrongfully named, “Indians,” instead they are Native Americans.

The Spanish, English, and French would all agree that the New World was a bountiful land, and a place where they could all potentially make a profit. These three groups began colonizing so they could gain profits off the land. The Spanish were mining for gold and silver, the English were harvesting agriculture, and the French were trading for fur skins, and through their attempts to gain money and power they all interacted with Native Americans. During colonization, the Spanish, English, and French treated the Native Americans they encountered with varying degrees of severity, and little kindness in most cases; consequently, their treatment heavily impacted relations with Native Americans.

The Spanish wasted no time taking over the villages, and killing the people already there. The English tried to ally themselves with some of the groups, but in the end, they too would start to slaughter the natives. The settlers cared less about the indigenous tribes, and peoples, and more for the money, which in

I don’t know that I have ever read or heard a story of a Native American being treated well by settlers or even now days. Why were Native Americans treated so horribly?. Did the settlers have the right to push Natives to the west for their own happiness?. How much have things changed in history with the Native Americans?. “The Diary of Mary Rowlandson” is a good example of how Native Americans were treated horribly.