New World Dbq

After finally getting out of the old world, the European explorers land upon a “New World” meeting the new, native peoples forming a relationship between them. This relationship was not quite ideal for each group; European exploration and colonization into the “New World” had a strong negative impact on the native people. The impact of exploration and colonization on the native peoples was enslavement, disease, and the forced changing of the natives religious views. Upon entering into the “New World” and meeting the native peoples, European explorers felt these natives were inferior to them and began to enslave them. The native people were forced to change their own land and “they planted their lands with all the trees and fruits” according …show more content…
Miguel Leon-Portilla wrote, “Sores erupted on [their] faces, [their] breasts, [their] bellies,” these natives were completely distraught by this disease. The effects of the disease that infected the native people came in the worst patches. The disease infected the Tenochtitlan “striking everywhere in the city” causing the population to decline increasingly due to the “killing a vast number of our people” (Document 4). The native peoples were killed off quickly and painfully once the exploration and colonization began in the New World. According to Geoffrey Cowley many native people were infected by a number of diseases they had no immunity towards, some of these diseases include “mumps, measles, whooping cough, smallpox, cholera, gonorrhea and yellow fever” (Document 6). The native people infected were infected in large numbers and many of these diseases seemed to be fatal; the population of native people suffered significantly from diseases. The majority of the population was wiped out due to this spreading of