What Was The Cause Of European Colonization Of North America?

The European invasions taught us that there was merely no remorse for the deracination’s that unfolded during the 15th to 18th centuries. There were numeral deep causes that led historians to believe how this process of Native American displacement took place. I intend to rank what I believe to be the three top crucial causes that led to the sweeping of European colonizations of North America from merely important to most important. In doing so I will explain why each cause is greater than the next. This ranking incorporates the impact of Irish and German immigrants to British North America between 1730 to 1775, the slaving raids, expansion, and war on the Carolina’s during the early 1700’s and the European invasion of North America from 1513
Columbus left Spain in 1492 with about 90 men, give or take, and three ships. Columbus reached the island of Espanola (present day Haiti) after exploring Cuba and was greeted with an accurate representation of what Indians were really like in North America in 1492. (Schaller et al., American Horizons, p.20, 2017.) They, specifically the Tainos, warned Columbus of some violent encounters that may come with his explorations. They warned of another group [Caribs] of how violent they were, how savage they were, and Columbus took this information and saw first hand how true this was. Soon, message would get back to Spain and the European’s perception of Indian’s was born. Furthermore, after Columbus went back to his homeland, he set out for a second departure known as the Columbian exchange. The Columbian exchange took place in Columbus’ second voyage back to the Caribbean islands. (Ibid., p.22.) During this exchange, plants, animals, sex, disease, and so much else was traded around between the Tainos and Columbus and his men. Columbus brought back, as described on map 1.5, a vast array of animals, plants and even disease. In exchange, the Tainos gave them plants and even some disease of their own. A lot of these diseases coming from the animals that they traded, it declined the Tainos population led them to make war with the colonists because they [Tainos] had no immunities. With the Greater Antilles greatly devastated by war and disease, Columbus and his team departed into the present day continental US in search to look for the American mainland. (Ibid., p.25) These departures were motivated by the colonist’s desire to find precious metals, Indians to enslave and more land to conquer. (Ibid., p.25.) I believe this cause to be the most important cause over the other two primarily because Columbus’ departure for the Americas