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The Shocks of European Colonization
From 1492 to 1608, a new era, called "The age of discovery," had
evolved into a full blown conquest for the unknown. Explorers explored the
unknown in the uncharted sea with their crew and boats in search for the
unknown. This innocent quest for the unknown grew fatal when greed
interceded in their discoveries. During this age of discovery, Europeans
invaded the "New World," cruelly enforced it's culture upon the Indian
culture and used Africans rudely and injustly in slave trading.
When Christopher Columbus discovered the new world, little did he know
that he would begin an eternal deterioration to the Indian culture. Indians
had an extremely rich culture because of being native to the Americas for
centuries. The Incas and the Azteks made empires based on gold. These
Indians had a plethora of gold but explorers such as Cortez of Spain who
saw this brought back stories of an overabundance of gold. As a result,
conquistadores invaded the Americas, killing and rampaging the azteks. They
also spread deadly diseases to the Indians who had a deficient immune
system in contrast to those of Europeans. Not only did these outrages
happen to these two cultures, but this happened to the North American
Indians. Englishman pushed Indians out of their homes and set up their own
society.
The Africans brought over from Africa did not do so great either.
Portuguese pioneered the market for African slave trade and Africans have
suffered ever since. Due to an inadequate immune system, many Africans
were killed. By 1619, the first africans stepped foot on America. By 1672,
slave trading had gone out of control. Merchants captured 200 or more
Africans, hauled them on ships, and packed them in like sardines to ship to
the Americas where they would be auctioned off then forced to a life of
being a slave. In America, they had no legal rights because they were
considered property.
The Africans and Indians were both victims of Europeans. Horrible
atrocities were committed to them and both suffered horribly.
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