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maks197457 [2]
3 years ago
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PLZ HELP ME ASAP. Upon arrival of European powers on American soil, a quick end came to many native populations. Numbers were de

vastated the longer Europeans were present. Many empires such as the Aztec and Inca were taken by force. The natives’ weapons of arrows and rocks were no match for gunpowder, steel swords, and horses. Yet even after hostile takeovers, the Native Americans continued to suffer in numerous ways. According to Las Casas, the harshness of the Encomienda system took many native lives. Examples of such harshness included beatings by colonists and exhaustion caused by never-ending labor. Natives were forced into slave labor in order to process colonists’ crops such as sugar cane and tobacco. These crops were referred to as “cash crops”. Cash crops are crops grown not for sustenance but because they are extremely profitable. The colonies would have natives tend to these crops and they would then be exported to other European nations for high prices in order to make manufactured or processed goods. Native slaves were worked for long hours in extremely hot temperatures with very little food, water, or breaks. They suffered savage beatings for working too slow and some were killed for refusal to work due to their exhaustion. Poor health is another struggle natives faced upon European colonization. Many natives died from hunger once colonists started to take their land. Colonists’ cattle trampled native crops such as corn and squash. But possibly the most devastating factor in declining native populations were the diseases brought by Europeans and against which the native people had no immunity. These included smallpox, typhus, chicken pox, mumps, and measles. Hundreds upon thousands of natives fell to such diseases. Entire villages were wiped out in mere days of the first symptom. Native cities throughout the Americas became desolate from the fast spread of disease. Native American empires such as the Aztec and the Inca fell to the Spanish and Portuguese in the 1500s. The Aztec alone had between sixteen and eighteen million people under their rule before Europeans landed on the continent. Why were these empires unable to fight the inevitable take over of European powers? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
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Digiron [165]3 years ago
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In the terms that this story is presented, the native populations were unaware of people outside their world and were unaware that these people had an attitude that was explorative and exploitative. They were unable to prevent invasion at the level of weaponry, tactics of mass production, oratory/diplomacy to negotiate a mutually acceptable outcome and medicine to fight off infections that the invaders bodies had adapted to but which the locals bodies had not. In effect, they came together at a time where one was advanced in technological and scientific terms and they had an attitude that didn’t respect the equivalent value of human life. It is impossible to know whether the Europeans arrived looking to live in harmony but it seems likely that they came from a time where they expected hostility. The weapons they brought which is referenced in the text was able to penetrate the defences and armour that the local people had developed within their own stage of development. Rather than work in symbiosis and harmony, the invading European forces saw themselves as superior to the indigenous people as their weaponry supported. With an attitude that the local people were a problem inhibiting then from their beliefs that they had a right to take what they needed, it was inevitable that there was going to be conflict. Unfortunately this progressed to a point where the sustainability of the local populations was threatened and in many place the populations were wiped out or left in a pitiful state relative to their former beauty. This, by the way, is a parable for what humanity is doing even to this day to our natural world. And it is going to either kill it, and us with it, or at best damage it a lot more before we realise we must start conserving it right now.
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