Colonization of America

Europeans came to America out of a desire for gold, God, and glory. Many notable explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortez traveled to the New World and encountered native populations. Columbus tried to convert

The Europeans began their explorations of the Americas between 1492-1682 because they started to think America as the “New World”. The Americans had what the Europeans wanted and needed. Between 1492 and 1682 in America, the Europeans went out to search for riches and other goods. Since the Europeans were in a lot of war, they needed money to pay for the war and weapons. They thought America had what they needed, which was goods and riches such as gold. They made up their mind and went to America to bring back riches. Another reason was when a religious group of Roman Catholics went to the New World to practice their religion. The group didn’t want to be persecuted, so they traveled to America to also expand their religion. Back in Europe in the late 1400s, there was only one religion, and it was Christianity. The Europeans wanted people to believe in only Christianity,

One motive for the Europeans to take the American territory was to gain an economic strength through the use of colonization. When the Europeans first stumbled upon the Americas, they saw thousands of miles of pure, fertile land. Mentioned in Christopher Columbus’s letter to Luis de Sant Angel, the many sea ports along the East Coast of Northern America made it easy to infiltrate. Along with the discovery of items such as corn and tobacco, which were easily tradable and could grow on either continent. When the Europeans came to the New World, they did one of two things; used the land and forced trade, or destroyed it.

The reason America was discovered in the first place was because Columbus was looking for a water route to Asia. Columbus was sailing to avoid the tax and unfriendliness of the Ottoman empire. When Columbus realized that he was not in Asia and instead was in an whole new world basically, he sent captured indians back the Pope to show him that the Natives could be used for labor. After this, many conquistadors flooded to America looking for wealth and profit. Some well known conquistadors we're Hernan Cortes, who took over the Aztec Empire and all of their wealth and sent it back to Europe. Francisco Pizarro was an conquistador who dominated the Incas and sent the gold and silver back to Europe. Many other Spanish people saw the wealth was brought back and thought they could get in on the loot also. Colonization boomed after wealth came back to Spain. Another example of why wealth was an motivator for colonization is the population increase in Europe. Since more people we're being born, landlords we're profiting off lending land to serfs. With all the money the landlords we're gaining, they wanted to spend that money on new, luxurious items such as cotton and sugar. Since the demand for these products we're high, more and more people flooded to America to gain the new exotic items that we're not previously available. Both religious conversion and desire for wealth had an significant impact on the lives of Native Americans and

Zeus was the youngest of the children born from Kronos and Rhea. Kronos swallowed all of the his children one by one because of an old prophecy he had heard that one of his children will overthrow him. When Rhea found out she was pregnant with Zeus, she was not going to let the same thing happen to him, so she gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and tricked Kronos into swallowing a rock, leading him to believe that it was the baby, making all of the other children come back in reverse order, so now the oldest one is the youngest. This made Zeus to now be the oldest, and the strongest, of all of his siblings, being that he was never swallowed. He is the God of the Sky, and also controls thunder and lightning, which he often uses to his advantage. Zeus plays a huge role in Hesiod’s Theogony, as he is portrayed to of been riddled with bad temper, and we see that a lot in some of the actions he takes through it.

The discovery of the Americas greatly impacts the European countries as people, like the Spaniards and the Portuguese, began to expand their power and settlement there. A long time ago, around the time when America was discovered, Europe was going through a great religious change. There were lots of disputes in Europe about the Roman Catholic Church and its teachings. One german monk, Martin Luther, did not believed in the teachings and rituals of the Catholic Church. He did not believed that good work will earn salvation or grace like the church did. He was angry when the church purchased indulgences, meaning that individuals could use money to reduce their time in purgatory. Luther believed that only your own inward faith in God can earn

labor. Eventually, this had lead to Spain’s failure and resulted in a time of "rapid inflation

The very reason that Columbus himself sort forth on his voyage was to spread Catholicism. The French saw that they had the potential the trade with them, the English simply wanted the land they occupied, the Spanish saw the Indians as a form of labor, they also believed they could bring the Indians closer to the Spanish god. The Spaniards had a very difficult time converting the natives as their religion was very different from the one that the natives had been practicing. They believed that these “savages” were worshipping devils and they had to be saved. Cortes, forced Christianity upon the Indians and as he “cleansed” the temples of the idols, breaking them in public. Anyone who opposed the conversion was thought to be guided by Satan himself. The ecomienda system as well as the policy of repartimiento were instituted by the Spanish. The Spanish King Ferdinand also passed the Law of Burgos which were lays that said how the Indians were to be treated. He basically said that the Natives either had to choose to convert to Catholicism under their own free will or force will be used against

The history and culture surrounding America’s pre-colonization is often forgotten to our presidents and our tax rights. However, the natives whom have been impacted have not forgotten this. The Cherokee people have held on to the basics of their way of life and customs, while being forced to incorporate white culture into their daily lifestyles.

The religious motivation for European exploration and colonization’s of the Americas was the rivalry of European countries to impose their own form of Christianity to non-Christians in the Americas, Asia and Africa. The economic motivation for European exploration

- The discovery and colonization of America propelled foreign trade and increased the volume of merchant

The Spanish, British, and French were just three of the many European countries who came to the Americas. However, the three of them did not have all the same goals, with this newly discovered land. On the surface it may seem that the three countries just wanted to expand their empires, and make new settlements, but there was other motives to moving to the Americas, and some of them were not too great.

The two things that prompted Europe towards exploration and later on colonization was religious conflicts and trade. An example of how religious conflicts prompted Europe towards exploration was the Spanish victory against the Moors. During the 18th century, the Moors, Islamic invaders from North Africa, began to conquer Spain. But throughout the next centuries, Spanish Christians started to reconquer these lands and as a result, they began to organize new independent kingdoms. This religious conflict helped to unite Isabella and Ferdinand. As a result, this unification created a new leadership and power which allowed them to launch Columbus’s voyage. Another religious conflict that prompted European exploration and colonization was the Protestant revolt in Northern Europe which is also known as the Protestant Reformation. This revolt which took place in the early 1500s was when Northern European countries revolted against the Pope’s authority which eventually resulted in religious wars. This conflict inspired Catholics and Protestants to explore the Americas, Asia, and Africa to spread their own version of Christianity. Another factor that prompted exploration was trade. Trade prompted exploration because since the land route to Asia had been captured by the Ottoman Turks, European kingdoms could no longer use it and had to search for new routes for trade. As a result, these kingdoms began to look for new trade routes by exploring through the ocean. In hopes of finding a

The time period between the 1600s and 1700s was a time of a major change in the land of the New World. The colonization of Europeans into the North America had considerable impacts on the Native American lives. European empire at the time, such as the French, England and Spanish empires, often fought against each other for power and control. After the European tried to colonized, the Native American suddenly found themselves dealing with European power politics. The arrival of Europeans into the New World meant new political relationships for both the European and the Native Americans. Each side had thing to gain and loss in this kind of relationship, especially military alliances and new trade goods. European power politics and rivalries were a major factor in the development of European and Native American relations because they created relationships of mutually beneficial relationships of trade and alliances.

The Europeans were originally unaware that the Americas even existed. Explorers had accidentally landed on North America centuries before the discovery of the New World. Christian Crusaders played an important role in the indirect discovery; they wanted to have the goods that they had no previous knowledge of.