HISB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Malaria, Common Cold
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Troubled beginnings: by the end of the 1500s, england, spain, netherlands, portugal, and. France have all colonized in the new world, and it seems like a new beginning for the falling apart europe: the rivalry among the states for land and economic control fueled this conquest. Although spain sponsored columbus and technically got to the new world first, england would end up dominating because of this competition. In fact, the spain and portuguese rivalry sparked columbus leaving. This was a very traumatic experience: there is a collision over land use (mentioned in the last lecture). Land to the aboriginals was shared amongst everyone, and land to the europeans was property. This made it easy for europeans to oppress the native. The virginia company: founded in 1607, it is one of the first main english colony. The south (virigina, maryland) becomes the slave and production region. They produced crops for an export market on scattered plantations using forced labor.
