European Influence On The New World

The New World experienced a great many changes as the Europeans explored, traded, and exploited the native peoples and lands. The way the Old and New World influenced one another was huge, including everything from spread of goods/ideas/diseases, to taking slaves, to colonizing in the New World. It was all driven by European greed, them wanting to gain wealth, not really caring what they did in order to gain that wealth. Different Nations from the East took to making many voyages to and from the New World, taking crops, gold, and slaves among many other goods they found there.
One of the more valuable things brought back from the New World were crops like potatoes, corn, rice, tobacco, etc. These crops helped feed a great many people and created a lot of wealth for those who grew them in the Old World. Economies
All these things being taken from them, the natives suffered from land loss and some tried to fight back against European abuse, but to no avail since they had significantly better weapons and armor than they did, which, in some cases, were pretty much nothing but sticks and rocks.
While explorers gained fame and fortune exploiting the new lands, others spread their religions to the natives, which… really didn’t do them much good as they were being forced from their lands and taken slaves and being killed, but it was sort of nice if you don’t count those that were killed for not accepting… anyways, for better or worse, the New World gained a lot from the influence of the Europeans, their knowledge, their religion, their animals and crops, but they lost their land, their ways of life, and a lot of