American Slave Trade 1492 Analysis

Between the years of 1492 and 1750 in North America through the Atlantic world the Americas caused slave trade to increase faster than ever before, the crops yielded also increased; correspondingly domesticated animals were introduced to farm work, as the introduction of gunpowder weapons aided the Native Americans in defending themselves.

As the Americas grew farming increased to feed the population of new civilians, therefore Native Americans were forced into slave labor, the problem was native Americans had little to no resistance to European originating diseases, such as smallpox which caused their numbers to decrease rapidly. To fill the gap in human labor workers, Americans started to import African slaves who were more adapted to
said diseases, thus increasing slave trade throughout the Atlantic. With the new use of human labor, excess crops were produced, the increase of crops yielded, made birth rates go up; raising population numbers although the numerous deaths of Native Americans occurring every day. Furthermore, domesticated animals were traded through the Atlantic world from Europe, these animals helped increase productivity. Horses were especially useful, for it allowed Natives to have better transportation and it made them more mobile. In the same fashion, gunpowder weapons such as guns were new to the natives and it allowed them to better resist conquest by the English.
The Atlantic world greatly altered North America and its new and old settlers. Without these changes and continuities we would not have the world we live in today, including the imports and crops we have in modern day North America.