How Did The Portuguese Colonize North America?

The French colonies in North America did not attract many settlers; therefore the French also enslaved Native Americans in farming and mining. The French exploited existing inter-tribal alliances and rivalries to establish trade with the Huron, Montagnais and the Algonquis. This tribe then competed to be the exclusive intermediaries between other Indian traders who also lived along the St. Lawrence River and up to the Great Lakes. Native Americans did the majority of the work, tracking, trapping and skinning the animals. The French traders then exchanged textiles, weapons and metal goods for the furs of animals.

Discussion Forum Unit 3 After the Ottoman Empire blocks the spice trade route when they took Constantinople in 1453, force to the European powers to search for new route to reach India and Easter Asia. Through this intent to fine new routes Christopher Columbus arrived in the new world 1492, establishing in the Hispaniola Island today Santo Domingo city, Dominican Republic, from (UNESCO, 1990) “were departure for the spread of European culture and the conquest of the continent. From its port conquerors such as Ponce de Leon, Juan de Esquivel, Herman Cortes, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda and many others departed in search of new lands.”

Portugal played a big role in European exploration. Some of the best explorers came from Portugal. Such as Vasco de Gama, Prince Henry, Ferdinand Magellan, and Bartolomeu Dias. These explorers traveled around the world and brought new ways of life and teaching back to Portugal. Most of the explorers of Portugal used a sailboat called the caravel.

The word pre-Columbian is used to discuss the history of the Americas in the era before European impact. Pre-Columbian was frequently used in discussing the abundant civilizations of the Americas. During pre-Columbian America, there was nothing, but wilderness and Indians. There were about thirty thousand square miles of desert. The Indians set fires to the trees to kill the area.

Many trades and exchanges throughout history bring very diverse cultures together. Nothing like widespread exchange over two hemispheres had never existed before 1492. Even though the cultures participating in these exchanges were viewed as different since they lived on opposite sides of the globe, they also had many commonalities. The Western Europeans and the East Asians were impacted greatly by the Colombian exchange. The western Europeans destructed and changed most of what they encountered while the East Asians blended and assimilated into the “new” cultures.

XV century inaugurated the start of the European Expansion with Portugal and Spain being the first most successful countries in discovering and colonizing new lands. Spanish colonization of America, without any doubt, was one of the most important events of that period. Stories about lands with many wonderful goods, spices, and other riches encouraged European men, who wanted to enrich themselves and find a better life over the sea, to travel and explore, claiming new lands to become dominions of the sponsoring party, in this case, the Crown of Spain. Christopher Columbus’ first voyage, backed by Queen Isabella of Castile, aimed to find a route to Asia through the West, but was not successful in its goal. However, the result of this unprecedented voyage was more than revolutionary: it discovered the New World.

A major factor that I had learned when perusing the articles in module two and chapter two was that in the Spanish conquest of America, labor had played a significant role to the Spaniards. Any of the gold that had been discovered in the Spanish conquest was proportioned to the monarchy, then leaders and administrators, and lastly the conquistadors. This had left the conquistadors with minuscule amounts gold and disappointed, in correspondence, the conquistadors were given encomiedas. The Spaniards had presumed they were superior to the Indians and had the right to possess them because they had been situated on the monarchs’ property. The Spaniards confronted the Native Americans with guns, germs, and steel.

Miguel Cabrera is a well known painter from the 18th century who painted From Spaniard and Mulatta, Morisca in 1763. This painting is from the caste series Miguel Cabrera did during his life in the Colonial Spanish Americas (Arana). A caste series is a set of sixteen paintings that trace racial mixing. In the painting, a family of a Spanish man and a Mulatta women are depicted with their children whom contain attributes of both of their parents. This painting of a multicultural family shows much of the social, economic, political, and historical time period of Latin America.

In 1512, a watershed moment in history occurred: the Portuguese became the first European power to come across the Indonesian Archipelago. What had been found could not be unfound; European contact with the East Indies and mainland Southeast Asia would be a defining force in shaping the region for the last half of the millennium. In the next century, the British East India Company (EIC) and Dutch East India Company (VOC) were established to facilitate trade between Europe and Asia. Around the same time as the "discovery" of modern-day Indonesia, Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines and declared it a colony on the behalf of the Spanish Crown. Prior to European arrival, the people of Southeast Asia were no stranger to sea trade.

South America, one of the world's regions with highest risks of natural disasters, is a continent in the southern hemisphere of the globe, between Central America and Antarctica, caught up between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The region is home of striking contrast between two extremes: a modern, democratic and wealthy population; and a traditional population, often excluded from power, affected by poverty. It has a very broad local history, until 1492; and a modern history starting from the discovery of the continent by Christopher Columbus in 1942, signing the beginning of colonization by Europeans during the sixteenth century. From then until the nineteenth century, the century of independence; Europe had a dominant role on the continent.

Latin America, in the late 19th century, was a time for the flourishment of independent nation states and a new social and political view for the people that fought for independence. The structure of the colonies, in the colonial period, were established by a system based on race which influenced many aspects of life in Latin America and in the years to come. The Spanish and Portuguese set up administrative systems, such as the cabildos, viceroyalties, and audiencias in colonial Latin America, in order to manage local municipal governing and maintain rule by the crown. In order to extract resources from the colonies, the Iberian crowns set up a cascade system through which laws passed from the crown to be implemented by the cabildos.

Constantinople fell to the Ottomans and the European trade routes to Asia closed down. In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe to the Americas thinking he was going to India. He arrived in India, which was actually the Caribbean, and called the Native Americans “Indians”. Christopher Columbus went back to Europe and told people. When the word got out Christopher Columbus and his fellow went back to the Americas.