According to King Afonso, there have been detrimental effects of the Portuguese presence in his kingdom. Some of the effects were the slaves being kidnapped, diseases being brought from the West, and the Portuguese people stealing and trading the noblemen. One effect was that when the Portuguese people were sick, they turned away from Christianity because God was not helping them.This made King Afonso very stressed, “ ...and the rest of the people in their majority cure themselves with herbs and breads and other ancient methods, so that they put all of their faith in the mentioned herbs and ceremonies if they live, and believe that they are saved if they die; and this is not much in the service of God.” When the people are getting sick, they
In King Phillip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England, Virginia DeJohn Anderson described livestock in early New England, brought over by European colonists and used in the unsuccessful attempt to assimilate the Native Americans, led by King Phillip, into English ways. King Phillip’s bad relations with Indians, stemming from livestock, caused him a title transition from livestock keeper to war leader. The use of livestock by the Native Americans was ineffective to their way of life due to their previous hunting practices, gender roles in society, their spiritual beliefs and practices and land boundaries; causing growing tensions between Native Americans and European settlers during the 1600’s, arguably
... The plague was brought over by the Spanish who where immune to the disease, but the Aztecs weren't so lucky. Many where killed over the course of seventy days, including the new King Cuitlahucs (92). Obviously this had a dramatic impact because they lost their leader. Those that remained where very weak with a milder form of the disease (93). Obviously this affected their strength to fight.
...ble ways to prevent getting the disease. As the seriousness of the Black Death progressed, Europeans became angry, blaming Jews for causing the illness, and acted upon it by burning them. The empires of Islam tried to figure out the causes and ways to prevent the plague from spreading.
An important fact to remember is that in those times, opinions and actions were either based on or blamed on religion and superstition. For example, people started marching across the country, punishing themselves on the basis that the plague was the result of all of man’s sin, whilst trying to persuade people of their cause. Also, charms were used by some cultures, such as the “Abra Kadabra” charm, which was either carved, or worn as protective jewellery to ward off the evil spirits causing the plague. It looked similar to the image below.
Las Casas emphasizes on three main issues throughout his account. First, in almost each chapter, Las Casas writes about the luscious qualities of the land and the different indigenous peoples that inhabit them. Second, he explains and describes in detail how the natives were rapidly being massacred by the invading Christian Europeans. Finally, Las Casas discusses how God had brought justice to the Europeans for their diabolical acts upon the natives. Las Casas, a former slave owner himself, realized that those whom he previously enslaved were just as much human and capable of learning and practicing the Christian faith as he was. As a bishop, he realized he could do little for the Natives except document his experiences (in as much detail as possible) and hope that the royal administration would have sympathy for the Natives and establish laws to protect them from the Europeans.
The introduction of Old World diseases was a substantial catalyst in the building of American colonial societies. Diseases such as smallpox devastated the native people’s populations. According to one estimate, within the span of the 16th century, the native population of central Mexico was reduced to about 700,000 from at least 13 million. (The Earth and Its Peoples, 475) Other regions were similarly affected by the disease and others such as measles, typhus, influenza, and malaria. These diseases, in effect, cleared the way for European settlers, although, in a somewhat gruesome fashion.
Microbes from Europe introduced new diseases and produced devastating epidemics that swept through the native populations (Nichols 2008). The result from the diseases brought over, such as smallpox, was a demographic catastrophe that killed millions of people, weakened existing societies, and greatly aided the Spanish and Portuguese in their rapid and devastating conquest of the existing American empires (Brinkley 2014). Interaction took place with the arrival of whites and foreigners. The first and perhaps most profound result of this exchange was the imp...
... the disease that accompanied an average race of people that made the difference in the conquest of the Americas
unable to farm their lands because they were sick. This plague did not attack only the humans but also
Pangloss simply responds that the disease was a necessity in this "the best of all possible worlds", for it was brought to Europe by Columbus’ men, who also brought chocolate and cochineal, two greater goods that well offset any negative effects of the disease. (526)The multitudes of disasters, which Candide endures, culminate in his eventual, if temporary, abandonment of optimism.
From 166 A.D. to 180 A.D., The Antonine Plague spread around Europe devastating many countries. This epidemic killed thousands per day and is also known as the modern-day name Smallpox. It is known as one of deadliest plagues around the world.
The Black Death affected the peasants in several ways. The disease killed everyone and anyone it reached, regardless of their age, religion, or beliefs. The people began to question what God’s purpose was and wondered why he would send such disaster and harm to their towns and cities. The peasants alread...
With the start of the plague Europeans looked desperately for help to answer their many questions, on why God would allow such a thing to occur. People throughout Christendom had prayed devoutly for deliverance from the plague and when their prayers weren't answered they began to change their methods of administering the traditions which were attached to the church. They were left alone to live life without the powerful God which left awe and fear in all, during a very difficult era. Religion affected every aspect of everyday life and without it a new period of philosophical questioning lay ahead.
European missionaries were significant spreaders of cultural influence and the dominant sources of disease transmission.
The conquerors were not only invested in the spread of their religion and their beliefs, but also in what they could learn and gain through their interactions with the land, animals, and people. These conquerors stayed in Brazil to examine: the vast coastline filled with mangroves, lagoons, and coral reefs, the wetland, the plains, the tropical savannah, and even the tropical rainforest now known as the Amazon Rainforest (Meyer, Brazilian Geography, 2010). The number of plants and animals that the Portuguese were able to discover was enormous, and thus incentive to stay