CHAPTER 13-15

CHAPTER13/14/15

            So much was going on during the new modern area that I thought it was so overwhelmed by these new modern changes.  Just to learn how civilization wanted to conquer land was just making me remember why I hated history so much. 

During the modern era the world becomes smaller, and new empires are being develop in the Americas. The Spanish conquer the Aztec and Inca Empire, who is the most wealthy, urbanized, and populous region of the Western Hemispheres. Within a short period of time the Spaniards established major cities, and a religious and bureaucratic infrastructure.  Which lay a commercial agricultural and economic foundation.   For what, to forced these people into slave labor, to acquire their gold/silver, and their land.  Why aren’t the Spaniard people not working? I found it interesting to find a slogan in the book that describes this prattle, which describes their reason.  One Spanish Official commented, “The Spaniards, from the able and rich to the humble and poor, all hold themselves to be lords and will not serve [do manual labor].” (Pg. 628) This only proves my facts that the Spaniards came into the Americas with the intension to conquer, to enslave, and to steal from the indigenous people of their valuable resources.

        If this was not enough, these European who were acting barbaric at the time also brought disease to the Americas and caused a death toll that was estimated betweenat 10 to 20 million, and declined to about 1 million by 1650.  The cause of these deaths was due to smallpox, measles, and typhus, influenza, malaria, and yellow fever in which these European and the Afro-Eurasian diseases had brought with them. What makes me angrier that some of these death were also caused by starvation and no one can help them because may of these indigenous people were too ill to help each other.