Christopher Columbus Negative Effects

The Americas before the arrival of the Spanish and Christopher Columbus were extremely different. Prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Spanish crew, the Americas were beautiful and an amazing sight to be seen. The Americas had luscious forests, magnificent wildlife, and extremely astounding terrains that had almost never even been stepped on. The land was green and the amount of new animals were thriving. But as soon as the Spaniards stepped foot onto these beautiful continents, everything instantly changed, and not in a good way. There were five main groups that were given in depth detail about the background information of each and the effect the Spaniards had on these societies as a whole. The first group was the Mississippians.
In a majority of the civilizations, the whole population was swept away. This meant that there was literally no one to help tend and care for the land that was previously kept alive and flourishing by the people in the societies. There were many contributions to the death of large populations by a small amount of people. One of these contributions was the factor of diseases. Many of these people had never been introduced to these diseases so there were not immune to them and they did not have any medicine to help them fight the diseases off. However, there were some positive effects of the arrival of the Spanish. One is that is the Spanish had never came to the Americas, our lives would be extremely different than they were right at this moment. There were many plants that were brought over from Europe that were planted in the Americas. These little tiny seedlings eventually turned into plantations. In conclusion, there were both positive and negative effects of the arrival of the Spanish into the Americas that changed these two landforms drastically. But if conquests to the Americas had not been made, the whole world would be different in ways we may never even