Alfred Crosby's Ecological Imperialism describes the expansion of Europeans across the globe. Crosby explains the relationship between European organisms and the conquest of non native lands, disease, flora, fauna, and animals all play a part in the rapid expansion of the peoples from Europe to the New Worlds. Traditional it is been assumed the outward expansion of the Europeans was due to their superior technology, weapons, or even religion. While these did give them great advantage, it was
The European colonists and the Native Americans of North America had very different views on nearly everything they encountered in their lives. Living in vastly different cultures lead both groups to have two extremely different outlooks on four main topics; religious beliefs, the environment, social relations, and slavery, differences which the colonists used to their advantage when conquering the peoples of the New World. The colonists, by saying that the Native Americans were primitive and
Discuss the Relationship between sugar and slavery in the Early Modern Period. "No commodity on the face of the Earth has been wrested from the soil or the seas, from the skies or the bowels of the earth with such misery and human blood as sugar" ...(Anon) Sugar in its many forms is as old as the Earth itself. It is a sweet tasting thing for which humans have a natural desire. However there is more to sugar than its sweet taste, rather cane sugar has been shown historically to have generated