IMPACT OF EUROPEAN EXPEDITION IN AMERICA

IMPACT OF EUROPEAN EXPEDITION IN AMERICA

Europeans in history have been recognized as explorers worldwide. America falls as one of the many parts of the world that the Europeans have traversed and made significant impacts.European nations came to the Americas to increase their wealth and broaden their influence over world affairs. The Spanish were among the first Europeans to navigate multiple seas to explore the New World and settle in the United States(America).

Christopher Columbus was an Italian who, In the late 1400s, having served in the Portuguese merchant navy and gaining valuable sea navigation experience on explorations he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain where he sought funding for his voyage from the Spanish government. After Christopher Columbus had made a similar navigation proposal to the Portuguese government, who declined it, he moved forward to sought aid from the Spanish monarchs. The Spanish government agreed to fund his first voyage since the rulers believed that his success(Columbus) would make them one of the European premier powers.

The name America came from Americus Vespucius, the Latinized version of Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who mapped almost entire America’s east coast and the Caribbean Sea in the early 16th century. Baldwin & Grimaud(1992).

After this expedition, there was no doubt that the land existed north of Cuba and west of the Bahamas. The extent of the land in that direction was massive and remained “unoccupied” until the 1520s because the Spanish taskforce still drove Spanish exploration. A better understanding of the extent of North America developed rapidly after 1517. The question then became, how far to the north the land ran, and was there open water between it? Subsequently, one of the explorers obtained a contract for the exploration and the settlement for his discovery to attempt to conquer and colonize the newly-revealed North America. Clayton, Moore, & Knight (1995). The Europeans were good practitioners of the Christian religion. They, therefore, found it fit to spread it in places such as America. Immigration from Europe to what is now the United States was significant when an infusion of English, French and Dutch immigrants came into North America and became immigrants in a land where the Spanish had already established colonies and Conquered the indigenous populations as the majority. Immigrants from Europe also came to know America had better living conditions and Economic Opportunities. For example, there was a class of peasants and slaves who provided labor for their plantations. There was an Industrial Revolution taking place. America became a host for the growing population, making the Europeans try finding materials to meet the ever-increasing population demands and a new market for manufactured goods. By the mid-1620s, companies had started seeking permission from their respective governments to establish community groups of men interested in making their fortunes in the new world (America). However, the Europeans encountered problems coping with the new land demands, which offered few comforts to the person only interested in Treasure as most of the Europeans wanted to farm. The economic potential of tobacco attracted people interested in acquiring property and money. Virginia became a stop on the way to Inland areas, especially the area around New York. Virginia became a focal point for the economic transformation of the new land. English settlers established and the colonies in the eastern religion of North America.

With Europeans’ arrival in the Western Hemisphere, the immigrants exposed the Native American populations to new infectious diseases, diseases for which they lacked immunity. These infectious diseases, including smallpox and measles, devastated entire native populations. Since the Europeans brought in slaves from Africa, there was an intermingle that resorted to the language of race and red-black people’s evolution. Moreover, it resorted to a pest in the land, the New World epidemics from a global perspective. However, on a positive note, there was the evolution of industries due to the manufacture of tobacco and cotton, which was then the thriving farm produce.

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