HIS2150 Study Guide - Mary Rowlandson, Social Stratification, Inward Light
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2- the 1492 landing of columbus and co. in the caribbean marked the opening encounter of sustained european conquest and settlement in the americas, eventually pushing the. Native american people from their ancestral lands and bringing new african people to the new world as slave labour. Africans were crossing the atlantic against their will. 4- the immediate impact of european of the americas included a growth in. Atlantic slave trade, virgin soil epidemics decimating aboriginal populations, new mixed blood people, and new forms of trade. 3- the english, french, and dutch sought to break the iberian monopoly over the americas through privateering, competitive trade, and attempts at colonization. Dutch set up their own colonies, driven primarily by their advancing into the atlantic slave trade. 4- north america was a disappointment to its early european colonizers; rich in some resources like fish and furs, but difficult to colonize due to the many rival native.
