Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Europeans go Global essays
Europeans go Global essays It is hard to say just how the Europeans took over the New World and ruled globally, but there's always this one reason that really personally blows my mind. It worked for them but its not quite the very nice way of taking care of business. It is how they took over the New World and became rich off of killing and brutally torturing human beings. Stripping these savages of all their gold, gold the savages found no value in anyways. At first they were willing to work because they were given other goods in exchange for their work (fetching of gold). Also they were given a necklace if they produced enough goods. If they didnt produce enough goods (like when they ran out) then they didnt receive a necklace, which meant the savage worthless addition to the world was killed. Then came the torturing, the brutality, and the extinction of the New World people when either @ they had no more gold or goods, or B: they tried to run or fight the Europeans. Oh yes! This was a large upbringing for the European expansion but its not the main reason that the Europeans gained so much power and territory. The settlement of the New World (or the Americas) brought many different items in from Europe. This strengthened the Europeans economy by exporting fruits, insects, livestock, grains, manufactured goods, guns and much more. This gave them very much power especially considering that the Europeans just killed off thousands and thousands of savages. They didnt stop the killing there though. The Europeans also brought diseases to the Americas that the Americas were never introduced to. That too killed many. Then with all of this money and power the Europeans expanded a lot by buying and selling African slaves. While the Europeans were were establishing colonies in the Americas their demand for cheap labor grew. The slaves brought skills in the fields of sugar, tobacco, rice and mu...
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