https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3 Period 3 en-us 2016-09-03 18:44:31 UTC 2016-09-06 12:40:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png mj00174 https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121459815 The Columbian Exchange started after European countries began colonizing The New World in search of land and resources to claim. Spain, led by Christopher Columbus, was one of the first European countries to claim land in what is currently known as the USA and one of the first to make contact with Native Americans and establish the mutual turned parasitic relationship between Natives and Europeans.]]> 2016-09-03 19:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121459815 mj00174 https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121460362 2016-09-03 19:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121460362 mj00174 https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121460721 As Europeans became much more familiar with Native lifestyles the began to see the differences in each other's cultures and began to see themselves as superior to Native Americans. This "understanding" soon lead to the creation of the encomienda system that enslaved Native American because they were essentially "animals". The Native Americans did not have a form of written language no did they have guns because they had no need for such things to survive. But Spaniards such as Juan Gines de Sepulveda saw this as proof of inferiority. Many missionaries saw the Native Americans as needing European assistance to advance their technology and to convert them to Christianity. This was then used as an excuse to enslave Native Americans because they could be "claimed like land". This system was used to manage the gold mines and sugar plantations of the Spaniards and became brutal to Native Americans and aided to the sharp decline in their population.]]> 2016-09-03 19:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121460721 mj00174 https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121461319 After maritime technology was improved for international Natives and Europeans began trading goods such as food and other resources also while introducing each other to "new" animals and diseases. With the Columbian Exchange underway, European countries populations were slowly stimulated by the introductions to new crops. It also stimulated European economies and slowly shifted the countries out of feudalism and into early capitalism. Native Americans were introduced to horses which were revolutionary to the hunter and gather lifestyle of many nomadic native tribes. But in addition to horses and other domesticated animals, Europeans also introduced new diseases to the Native Americans. Native Americans had no developed resistance to these diseases so they suffered great losses to their population which can be estimated up to 90%.]]> 2016-09-03 20:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121461319 mj00174 https://padlet.com/mj00174/3v7qv66ms7x3/wish/121462982 Soon after the introduction of the encomienda system, Spaniards like Bartolome de Las Casas began to speak out against the brutality of the encomienda system and the idea that Native Americans were not humans. He even went as far as to say that Africans were "better suited" for the brutality (comments he later retracted).Eventually the encomienda system was removed due to the sharp decline of the Native American population and was replaced by the Asiento system after Emperor Charles V abolished the provision requiring slaves to be born under Christian dominion to prevent the spread of Islam.

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