History Essay
Amanda Falkowski
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Analyze the treatment of Native populations in the Americas during colonization.
During the 1500's, exploration and settlement in the Americas was becoming popular
among a lot of European nations like Spain, Portugal, France, England and the Netherlands.
Depending on what each nation wanted with the land affected how they treated the natives in the
Americas. The colonization of the European settlers interfered with the natives' survival and
their way of life. The European settlers exchanged diseases with the natives, used them for
slavery, and forced them to revolutionize their religion and beliefs. Not only did negative effects
happen, the natives also became aware of different agricultural goods and livestock, as well as an
ethnic change which would help alter their way of living positively.
In Brinkley, when the Spanish first settled in the Americas, they were searching for ways of gaining wealth as......
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