USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Contrary to popular belief, it was not the European guns or fierce soldiers that conquered the native Americans, but instead it was the common childhood illnesses brought from the Old World by the European conquistadors. Diseases such as smallpox, measles, and typhus annihilated most of the American native populations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Encounters between explorers and populations in the rest of the world often introduced new diseases, which sometimes caused local epidemics of extraordinary virulence. Trade routes and new world conquests devastated indigenous populations, as they were exposed to new pathogens and newly domesticated animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Europeans pushed the native Americans away by killing and plundering them, to claim the lands for themselves. Once the killing and plunder reduced, the Europeans wanted to settle there and exploit the natural resources of America.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty or private property rights to land – imperium and dominium.