Native Americans Vs Columbian Exchange Essay

1. Considering groups, the Native American, and the men of Columbus, and the other Conquistadors all had tremendous impacts in very negative way with each other I would have to choose Native Americans. Prior to what could be perceived by some as an invasion by Columbus and The Conquistadors , the Native Americans were able to enjoy the purity, and beauty of the Americas with no slavery, invader battles, landing taking and diseases they must have had a simpler life of living off the lands and flourishing. Not to say the natives had a perfect life as they would have had internal strife and hardships over the years, pre-invaders life was better than the aftermath. Being one of the “invaders” it appears by most of the readings they had a horrible trip to get to Americas and their hardships of trying to establish settlements was a pricey endeavor with nightmare living conditions and being so far away from their homelands it was no vacation. The “invaders” annulation of cultures and natives homelands does and would not have been my choice to live my life.
The continent of Europe seemed overall to have benefited best from Columbian Exchange. The import of goods from North America/ Caribbean region to Europe changed their lifestyles with fresh produce, maze, sugar and the addictive tobacco. The bad import was the diseases syphilis. The wealth associated with sugar cane plantations brought financial power to European countries, with the wealth came strength and power. Also with the quest for wealth come greed and the impulse to want more land, want more product, more arms, more ships more of everything. The other continents did import varies positive goods , such as sugar , rice, cattle and other livestock , but they appear to have imported more negative impactful items such as numerous diseases; malaria, yellow fever , and the devastating small pox , to which in my view outweigh the positive