FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Columbus explored Hispaniola for 3 years.
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European diseases such as Small Pox and overwork through a system of labor in which native people worked the land to benefit Spanish landowners.
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The Atlantic slave trade began.
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The Spanish and Portuguese claimed parts of the Americas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Smallpox was the disease brought by Europeans that was most destructive to the Native Americans, both in terms of morbidity and mortality. The first well-documented smallpox epidemic in the Americas began in Hispaniola in late 1518 and soon spread to Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare.
Detailed explanation-3: -When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -Because Europeans, Asians, and Africans had many more domestic animals than American Indians, they had acquired more endemic diseases. Large centers of population like the cities of Europe and Asia also attracted rats that carried diseases like the bubonic plague.
Detailed explanation-5: -Following Christopher Columbus’ arrival in North America in 1492, violence and disease killed 90% of the indigenous population-nearly 55 million people-according to a study published this year.