Exploitation From Columbus Discoveries
When Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492, the native peoples of that land were firmly entrenched in their societies and happy and prosperous without the European influence that eventually destroyed the peoples there. When the Europeans began to utilize the land for expanding the European commerce, the Native Americans in the north and the Aztecs and Incas in the south were hard hit by the exploitation of the new arrivals. In the north, the Native Americans were conned into selling their land for mere trinkets, and the colonists leeched knowledge about the land off the friendly Indian tribes. This exploitation grew as the colonists began to take more land and wealth off the Native Americans, and even unsuccessfully attempted to use the natives as forced labor. The viruses that most Europeans carried and were immune to reeked havoc on the population of the Indians. In the south, the Spanish and Portuguese were continuing to exploit the Aztec and Inca civilizations. The Aztecs thought the Spanish to be gods, and the false idols demanded that Montezuma pay the Spaniards tribute of gold and silver. The Aztecs accepted in the beginning, however the Spanish became even greedier and continued to demand more and more offerings and tributes, and the same diseases that plagued the Indians up north also caused widespread death among the tribes in the south. Even after the fall of Tetochitilian, the Aztecs and Incas were still exploited by the Spaniards to keep feeding the greed of the European nations.
The African population has always stayed in a state of unrest, with civil wars and tribal conflicts abounding throughout the continent. The European explorers eventually discovered these people and realized the trade potential in the area that was rich with natural resources. When England and other European countries realized that forced labor of the natives of the Americans would not survive due to the diseases of the European carriers, they...
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