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(1450-1750) America, Home to the Native Americans, home to the Aztecs, the Incas, and a lot of woodland creatures. This is where the natives home was, where they could farm and hunt and gather. But, everything changed for good when Christopher Columbus, trying to reach the East Indies, discovered the “new world” or America (1492). This sparked the age of exploration when rumors of the new world’s wealth spread. Later, in the 16th century, the Spanish built a large empire in the Americas. The Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztec and the Inca empires. Spanish explorers traveled through the borderlands of New Spain, claiming and conquering more land. Some of these explorers include De Soto, Coronado, Cortes, and Pizzaro. Theses conquests …show more content…
include a lot of battles with natives and diseases. Then, almost a century later, the English settlers arrived in North America and began colonizing. Although the Spanish began colonizing in the new world earlier than the English, in the way they colonize, they both share similarities and differences in the way they do things. The Spanish and the European’s colonization of the America’s share similarities and differences in the categories dealing with economics/environment, social, and political subjects. Economics/Environmental: Encomienda.
This is a system of forced labor on the Native Americans. This also gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or make them work. This is what the Spanish used when colonizing. They put the natives into forced labor to mine things like silver and to be put to other kinds of work. Unlike the Spanish, the Europeans did not use Encomienda. They displaced the Natives but did not subjugate the natives like the Spanish did. At first, the Europeans did not focus on the use of Encomienda or indentured servants but mercantilism. While the Europeans used mercantilism, the Spanish also did. Mercantilism. The purpose of colonies was obtaining raw materials (esp. gold and silver) and serving as markets for Spanish and European goods: profit. While private investors financed the Europeans, the Spanish did not have any private investments. The Spanish also built European-style cities. The America’s were soon brought into the global trade network. That includes the Spanish and Europeans. While the Spanish’s main products were sugar, silver, and gold, well at least down south; the Europeans main product was cotton, wheat, and …show more content…
tobacco. Social: indentured servitude: when a person comes to America and was placed under contract to work for another for several years usually not for money but for more like traveling expenses.
In the British/English colonies, this was used more than any other labor source. The Spanish also had a type of labor source. Although the Spanish also had a type of labor source, the depended on slavery more than indentured servants. The servants they used were the Native American’s and African Americans. The Europeans also used African Americans. The Europeans that usually came to the new world, usually came with their family. Because of this, there were no mixed races between the Europeans and the natives. On the contrary, the Spanish did have multi-racial societies. The Spanish even set up a strict hierarchy. Peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattos, and native/ African Americans were part of this hierarchy. The Spanish treated the natives harshly and subjugated them while the Europeans did not. Both the Spanish and the Europeans had set up plantations for their indentured servants or
slaves. Political: although they both got to explorer the new world, the Spanish had gotten a head start on it for they had begun explore and colonize almost a whole century earlier than the Europeans. The dates aren’t the only differences politically. The English government had no desire to create a central empire in the new world while the Spanish was under the strict control under crowned viceroys. This means that the Europeans had more political freedom than the Spanish. Different motivations by English settlers led to different types of colonies so many colonies had their own legislatures. The Spanish were subject to the crown in theory, but because of communication time and distance, they were largely independent. The Europeans were also independent which is part of the reason some of the colonies came here. Because the Europeans came a century late, there were not a lot of native empires to explorer. In conclusion, Although the Spanish and the Europeans started colonizing a century apart from each other, they share similarities and differences in the categories political, social, and economical/environmental. Because of Christopher Columbus and his misguided and failed attempt to reach the East Indies, the new world was found. This is important because America would probably not be the way it was if this didn’t happen.
After the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the powerful Old World scrambled to colonize it. The three major nations involved in this were Spain, France, and England. Spain took more to the south in the Central American and Mexico areas while France went north in the Canada region. The English came to America and settled in both the New England and Chesapeake area. Although the people in these regions originated from the same area, the regions as a whole evolved into different societies because of the settlers’ purpose for coming to America and the obstacles faced in both nature and with the natives.
It was the age of discovery that first provoked intrigue and curiosity of new lands, particularly the Americas, and how the Europeans could expand to fit their society within the borders of this unknown and unexplored land. By the 1580s, more had been learned about the Americas, but any colonization until this point had not even been attempted. And so it was the English, under Queen Elizabeth I's rule, that were issued to establish a colony along the east coast of North America. However, when this great accomplishment was finally made in 1587, it was not long founded until its ultimate fate ended in the disappearance of the colony three years later, instantly creating one of the greatest American mysteries that will ever be.
In the 1830's the Plains Indians were sent to the Great American Deserts in the west because the white men did not think they deserved the land. Afterwards, they were able to live peacefully, and to follow their traditions and customs, but when the white men found out the land they were on were still good for agricultural, or even for railroad land they took it back. Thus, the white man movement westward quickly begun. This prospect to expand westward caused the government to become thoroughly involved in the lives of the Plains Indians. These intrusions by the white men had caused spoilage of the Plains Indians buffalo hunting styles, damaged their social and cultural lives, and hurt their overall lives. The lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century were greatly affected by the technological development and government actions.
Beginning in 1492, Spain had been the first European nation to sail westward across the Atlantic Ocean and colonize the Amerindian nations of the Western Hemisphere. The empire that came from this exploration extended from Virginia on the
The Spanish and English cultures were scarcely similar and notably different because of the interaction with indigenous people and the timing in which the interactions occurred. The Spanish and English were very different in how they interacted with the indigenous people. The Spanish main reason for coming to North America was to spread Catholicism. In the Catholic church if two people were both Catholic then the two people would receive the sacrament of marriage. After marriage the two would create a Catholic of their own. This had created 5 new races of people. The races of humanity was then looked at as social classes. The highest social class was a full white European, then a mestizos, which was a someone who was European and an Indian, followed by Indians, African slaves, and lastly a Zambos,
Both these labor systems were introduced for the same reason, which was the need for more laborers. Plantation owners that grew tobacco required more workers since tobacco took intense labor and they needed people who were willing to perform this work. Using slaves and indentured servants were the owners’ ways of fulfilling these requirements because they were accessible and most of the workers could tolerate the living conditions in the South, compared to the frail Indians who died on contact with Whites. Regardless of this similarity slavery and indentured servitude shared, plantation owners still had different methods of going about to obtain their workers. While indentured slaves were imported from England at their own will, African slaves were captured and put on crowded ships, forced to endure the suffering of the “middle passage,” which is the transatlantic sea voyage that brought these slaves to the New
After the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, European Nations competed in a race against one another to claim pieces of the new land. Before Columbus found this land, the sea separating the New World from Europe seemed endless, and mundane. The Europeans were only interested in the land to the East. But with the New World as a new hat thrown into the ring, the Europeans tossed aside their old toy to go play with a new one. This time period of conquest over the New World was known as the Age of Exploration, and by the 1700s, they kept their pickings. A New World meant more land to build homes and plant crops, and more money to be earned by buying out new houses and selling new crops grown in foreign soil. Spain claimed Mexico, and the Southwest portions of what would be known as America. France got their hands on most of present-day Canada, as well as Louisiana. The Dutch set foot on land they called New Amsterdam, however, The English, who had settled their first colony in Jamestown, Virginia, drove the Dutch out and claimed New Amsterdam for themselves, later renaming it New York. The English claimed more land as time passed, and eventually they had formed 13 different colonies in the Eastern part of America. The English Colonies were separated into 3 different regions. The New England Colonies (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire), the Middle Colonies (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware), and the Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia). The New England Colonies were the earliest of the 3 regions, founded by English Settlers seeking religious freedom. The Middle Colonies were also founded by settlers seeking religious freedom. The Southern Colonies,...
The Spaniards arrived at the Americas prior to the English. The Spanish mainly wanted to explore in the first place because after the Black Death, the population increased, and thus, so did the frequency of commerce. There was a sudden new interest in new products and the new strong monarchs who sponsored the journeys wanted to be more affluent. Therefore, explorers such as Christopher Columbus attempted to go west to target Asia. However, he ended up on Cuba and called the natives Indians. The Spanish soon started to consider the Americas less of a blockage and could now see it as a source of resources. In 1518, Cortes arrived into Mexico with his group of conquistadors, or conquerors, which is a proper name because the men after gold exterminated native areas using their military skills, brutality and greed to turn the Southern America into a vast Spanish empire. The smallpox the Spanish unknowingly carried also helped wipe many people out. When they saw the religious ceremonies of the Aztecs that produced many skulls, they thought of these people as savages and not entirely human. This of coarse was quite hypocritical because the Spanish have killed before during the Inquisition for their faith. It was this contempt that made them think it was all right to slaughter the natives. Spanish colonies were established when conquistadors had gotten a license to finance the expedition from the crown to fixture encomiendas. These encomiendas were basically Indian villages that became a source of labor. The Spanish dreamed of becoming wealthier from South America, but they also wanted a profitable agricultural economy and to spread their Catholic religion (the Pueblo Indians converted to Christianity), which became very important in the 1540s.
The Effects of Colonization on the Native Americans Native Americans had inherited the land now called America and eventually their lives were destroyed due to European colonization. When the Europeans arrived and settled, they changed the Native American way of life for the worse. These changes were caused by a number of factors including disease, loss of land, attempts to export religion, and laws, which violated Native American culture. Native Americans never came in contact with diseases that developed in the Old World because they were separated from Asia, Africa, and Europe when ocean levels rose following the end of the last Ice Age. Diseases like smallpox, measles, pneumonia, influenza, and malaria were unknown to the Native Americans until the Europeans brought these diseases over time to them.
Both the Europeans and Indigenous People were treated differently than African American slaves since they had slightly more freedom and rights, but in many ways they are also treated the same. The social construction of race between the Europeans, Indigenous People, and Africans led to the establishment of how one group is different from the other. Europeans are one of the groups that have been racialized during the colonial times. Since the Europeans strived for power and expansion to gain wealth for their motherland, they voyaged around to look for new places to control or get resources from. During their explorations, the Europeans also encountered other groups that were also racialized for a long period of time.
The primary sourced I chose was “Bartolome de la Casas on Spanish Treatment of the Indians” This shows the early contact between the Europeans and the Indians, and how the Native population were highly mistreated in labor causing the deaths of many innocent people. Many Indians had no other choice but to go away to work for several months, to be able to provide for their families during this time they were given a poor nutrition and low paid wages, which wasn’t enough to buy food to feed themselves or even clothing. Of this workers only 10 percent would survive to make it home and see their families while the others would die on the way due to hunger or any other illness. Europeans only saw Indians as slaves and believed they didn’t have their
The Colonial Era consisted of Europeans making settlements on the North American Continent. All thanks goes out to Christopher Columbus during his voyage because he brought together Europe, Africa and America and the completion of the voyage by Magellan who also played a part in being the first person to circumnavigate around the world. With Columbus and Magellan leading the way, Portugal and Spain were able to become their own colonizing nations. There was an obvious difference when it came to the reasons for the conquest between the two countries. Portugal started with sea routes and trading ports in Africa and in the East. The Spanish on the other hand was in search of Gold. The wealth in America made Spain the most powerful. Spain and
The Modern Era was marked by the genesis of European colonization. The great states of Europe, economically and nationally revitalized, spread east into Asia and Africa and west into the New World, where the tough terrain of the land and the difficulty of building new societies demanded a constant source of labor. The British colonies that would one day makeup the United States, with a reliance on arduous economic industries like harvesting tobacco, was especially in need. This need was realized in forced labor, which took on many forms; despite the differences between the forms, each was united by a common grim characteristic: the removal of free will. For this reason, With Liberty for Some considers transported convicts, slaves, and indentured
Spain dominated southwestern and southeastern North America until the late seventeenth century. Within twenty years of that time, however, Spanish influence had gone into decline as a result of English expansion into present-day South Carolina and Georgia (see Chapter 4). Native Americans came to rely on English trade goods and formed alliances with the English settlers against the Spanish. During this time, France had been establishing New France in present-day Canada. Like the Spanish and English, the French were attracted to North America by promises of great wealth in gold, silver, and other precious metals. Like the Spanish, the French also wanted to convert the "pagan" (one who is not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish) Native Americans to
The Europeans came over to the Americas for money, resources, and land. The Europeans wanted the land, so they greedily took it from the Native Americans that were already there. They viewed the Americas as a shiny new toy and treated it as such. They forcefully took the land from the innocent Native Americans. How did they take it forcefully? Well they made the Native Americans their slaves using the ecomenida system, presidos, and congregcions. The encomendia system is when the Europeans