During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. There were exchanges of ideas, products and crops that greatly advanced the cultures of all involved, but on the other hand, new diseases, and harsh treatment of one another were also present.
Before the arrival of the Europeans to present day United States, the Native Americans treated their homeland with respect and with spiritual properties. Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. This all changed when the European settlers arrived. The Europeans believed that humans h
During the European exploration of Africa, similar events occurred. Europeans brought the crops of maize, manioc, and sweet potatoes, which they had received, from the Native Americans, to Africa. These crops fed the great increase of population that was occurring in Africa at the time. What the Europeans took from Africa was something that would last through out the majority of the world until fairly recently, slavery. The Africans themselves had traded slaves for centuries prior to the arrival of the Europeans. The Portuguese set up trading posts along the shored of Africa, trading gold and slaves. They set up a huge traffic of slaves to work in their native sugar plantations. This huge boost in the slave economy was a significant change to that of
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