ENGL 2327 Lecture 8: Explorers and Their Agendas
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There are two sides to each story, and america"s story is one with at least two very different perspectives. As long as humans have inhabited the earth, they have been searching for something. Debate over who really discovered america vespucci or columbus. Reality is land bridge allowed passage into the new world by nomadic people from asia long before explorers discovered north america. Eventually the explorers discovered a land filled with resources and potential. Europeans, although they were late to the game, arrived bringing hopes and dreams as well as disease and destruction of the status quo, and as they say, the rest is history. Europeans borrowed from the amer-indian civilizations agriculture economics government arts & crafts religion. With the europeans" arrival came the rearrangement, displacement, and destruction of a wide variety of native american civilizations all over the americas with the europeans came slaughter, slavery, and many diseases that proved lethal to the natives between 1492 and 1617,