Josh+Adams

By: Josh Adams It was a crisis in 1491 when Europe was running out of land. The population of Europe was growing rapidly out of control but there was no more land that they could expand upon. One brave explorer by the name of Christopher Columbus, had mapped many places in the world and studied other maps. He was the courageous man who discovered the Americas. He journeyed to the Americas with 87 men, mostly criminals, trying to find a western route to India but he landed in the Gulf of Mexico. Columbus went back to Spain to report what he had found and then people wanted to go there themselves. European farmers traveled there in hopes of new land and a new live. With them, they brought their domesticated goods. Farmers brought animals such as cows, horses, and pigs. They also brought with them the many plants they grew in Europe. These new animals and plants trampled and ruined the soil of America. As well as the Europeans who discovered the endless forests. Wood was very valuable in Europe. Europeans cut down thousands of trees to ship back to Europe for a healthy amount of money. This however caused erosion and eventually whipped out the forests on the coast of North America. Queen Isabella, the queen of Spain, also sent many soldiers to the new world in search of resources. They found many natives of the land. The Spanish soldiers hated the natives and wanted to exterminate them. Generals such as Balboa, and Alvarado whipped out entire tribes at once, stealing their resources. The farmers and civilians talked bad about the Indians calling them worthless. They did not share any land or provisions with them and yet, they still expected more form them. Since the Europeans had animals like horses, the Indians did not know how to defend themselves against the Spanish soldiers. Their pigs also ate the Indians crops and food supplies. The old world destroyed the new world for their benefit and gave nothing back. The animals they brought with them ruined the plains and ate their crops, the people destroyed the forests and whipped out tribes by killing them. The new world received more land, better food supplies, wood, and other resources but gave nothing back to the Indians, destroying the new world and making their own version of it.
 * __ Did the Old World Build or Destroy the New World? __**