The Meaning Of When Worlds Collide

The meaning of “When Worlds Collide” is when the Old and New World were exchanging people, foods, animals, plants and diseases through the Columbian exchange. The Natives had varying interactions with Spanish, English and French colonists. Some of the interactions were positive but most of them were negative.
The time of exploration began when Christopher Columbus set sail to find a better route to India but actually discovered the Americas. He discovered the “Indian” tribe, the Tainos, they were barely dressed but had gold earrings and jewelry. He brought them back to Spain to show his people what he had found. He went back to the Americas with seventeen other ships and when he got there the Tainos had killed the Spaniards left behind. This made Columbus angry so he enslaved them. Columbus died in 1506 still thinking he discovered a route to India and by 1520 the Tainos were gone. After The Treaty of Tordesillas, the Spanish went further west and discovered Aztecs. The Spanish conquered them in just two years. Because of the cruel behavior De Las Casas spoke out and gave Spain a
The Englishmen who came over were “Gentleman”. This later caused problems because they had never worked for themselves. The Powhatan’s helped out them for a while but then the English did not need them anymore and killed them. John Smith was an English explorer who came up with the philosophy “If you don’t work, you don’t eat”. He was captured but was saved by the chief's daughter Pocahontas. John Rolfe another Englishman married Pocahontas. They had a child together and he took her back to England, she died and so did Rolfe soon after. Later, the Columbian Exchange was in full swing. Europe brought with them sugar, wheat, rice, horses, cows, pigs, and different diseases such as smallpox. The Natives gave them gold, silver, potatoes, corn, tobacco, and syphilis. Silver nearly destroyed the European market because there was so much of