What Impact Did Humans Have On America

There are many parts of history that have been left unclear because so much time has lapsed. Thanks to fossils or remains, among other things, historians have been able to piece together many things. In the 1500’s the first contact was made in the Americas. During this time, the America’s and the world as we know it was changed radically. Humans influenced America the most because of their ways to manipulate animals, diseases they spread, and their eagerness and ambition to take control. Humans have influenced the world in many ways, just as they did for America so many years ago; starting with their ease to manipulate animals. According to James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, “…with a firebrand, setting fire to the plains and timber so as to drive off the mosquitoes, and also get lizards and similar things which they eat, to come out of the soil. In the same manner they kill deer, encircling them with fires, and they do it also to deprive animals of pasture, compelling them to go for the food where the Indians want.” 7 (New York: McGraw Hill, 2010). This way they manipulated the animals to their benefit; and this was found during the first contact. Just after the first contact, the manipulation
Diseases were brought to the Americas, and because the current habitants of the Americas were not accustomed to them, they did perished. Europeans had some sort of immunity built in their bodies as a result of said common contact with these animals. James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, “The animals were an efficient way of proving protein to the expedition, but their importation into North America very likely sparked a chain reaction of unintended consequences.” 10 (New York: McGraw Hill, 2010). In a way, animals had some influence in the Americas, but it was because of humans that these changes or influences