Caitlin Allison
World History
Bk: 2
Columbian Exchange Editoral
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange had many positive effects for many people all over the world. However, for the native people already living in the New World the Columbian Exchange could have been the worst thing possible.
Of course the Europeans tried to enslave the native people before going to Africa to get slaves there. They had to do that because the native people would refuse to eat and work on the plantations. Native people knew the land and could escape easier because of knowing the land and they would not give up so easily to people they once trusted.
Native people wanted to trust these people coming off the ships because to them they looked like Gods and they gave up their religion so easily because they thought it was the right thing until they figured out these people were not Gods at all.
The people traveling from the Old World had many diseases that they had immunities to but the people in the New World had never encountered these diseases and died very quickly when infected. It is said that about 90% of the Native people died when the Europeans came from the Old World.
Because of the Columbian Exchange many native religions and populations wre lost in time. The Native people were giving up their religion and then died not being to pass down the knowledge that they had and many societies disappeared all together.
World History
Bk: 2
Columbian Exchange Editoral
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange had many positive effects for many people all over the world. However, for the native people already living in the New World the Columbian Exchange could have been the worst thing possible.
Of course the Europeans tried to enslave the native people before going to Africa to get slaves there. They had to do that because the native people would refuse to eat and work on the plantations. Native people knew the land and could escape easier because of knowing the land and they would not give up so easily to people they once trusted.
Native people wanted to trust these people coming off the ships because to them they looked like Gods and they gave up their religion so easily because they thought it was the right thing until they figured out these people were not Gods at all.
The people traveling from the Old World had many diseases that they had immunities to but the people in the New World had never encountered these diseases and died very quickly when infected. It is said that about 90% of the Native people died when the Europeans came from the Old World.
Because of the Columbian Exchange many native religions and populations wre lost in time. The Native people were giving up their religion and then died not being to pass down the knowledge that they had and many societies disappeared all together.