Columbus arrives with deadly diseases

Q#4 Changes and Conflicts from diverse world collisions?After the 1492 collision of Europe, Africa and the Americas, various changes and conflicts occurred, some of which proved necessary and positive, while others turned deadly. As further research of the New World was unveiled it was clear that much of the New World was made up of diverse plantation from the one found in the Old World. Tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes where some of the crops found in the New World that fed both Europeans and Indians. Three fifths of the crops today originated from the America's. The Europeans in exchange to the Indians for the food gifts, presented them with Old World crops and animals.Columbus therefore returned to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1493 with seventeen ships that unloaded twelve hundred men in an almost like Noah's Ark of cattle, swine, and horses. The horses where rapid in expansion they reached North America through Mexico and in 2 centuries reached up to Canada. Various North American tribes adopted the horse giving there culture a better chance at hunting down buffaloes. Columbus also brought sugar into the New World creating a sugar revolution, therefore causing Africans to immigrate in order to work the sugar fields. But along with this joyful change unbeknownst to the Spaniards they had also brought various diseases, such as germs that caused smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria. Eventually these diseases destroyed the majority of life in the New World, reducing the population from 1 million to only 200. The New World was unprepared as they had gone years without any real epidemic. Although not intended by the Spaniards the disease became one of the worst, unparalleled to any in history, igniting vengeful slaves as they realized the Spaniards where responsible. The Indian slaves where not able to fully Infect their owners with the previously stated diseases, however they where successful with infecting and introducing to Europe for the first time the sexually and deadly transmitted disease called syphilis, what a way to strike back.

Q#2.Origin of the Indian Cultures

The possible route the Nomadic Asian Hunter
 took when crossing the bridge.

Throughout the America's Indian cultures have left a story to be unveiled, beginning from their pottery to historical land marks such as their temples,pyramids and cities. Indian cultures have mesmerized the minds of the contemporary beings, simply because they were able master the complex nature of cities with no technology. One can only ask who did these outstanding Indians such a as the Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans originate from? Some 35,000 years ago an Ice Age congealed the oceans into giant icebergs allowing the sea level to drop and creating a bridge that connected Eurasia with North America. This bridge allowed small herds of nomadic Asian hunters, the so called "immigrant" ancestors of these Indian tribes to cross into North America. The crossing continued until the dismantle of the bridge which was 250 centuries later. With the Ice Ages conclusion, a climatic warming made way for new ice less valleys allowing those who had immigrated to move as they pleased. Eventually throughout the years as the Europeans arrived, the 54 million immigrants began to split up into copious tribes creating the endless Indian cultures. They where as diverse as 2,000 languages, and countless different cultures, religions, and ways of life. Incas lived in Peru, Mayans lived in Central America, and Aztecs lived in Mexico. 

Q#1.What set the stage for North American History?

The geological and geographical conditions that set the stage for the North American history can be traced back to as much as 225 million years ago, when chunks of terrain began to drift away from what once existed as a colossal continent known as Pangaea. In this dismantle copious landscapes that now belong to North America where created, but perhaps the most influential event to set the stage for North American history has to be The Great Ice Age. During the time The Great Ice Age happened some 35,000 years ago, the Ice Age solidified much of the world oceans into enormous glaciers, lowering the level of the sea. Once the sea level decreased , it unveiled a land bridge connecting Eurasia with North America in what is now known to be the present-day Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska. During the existence of this bridge small nomadic herds immigrated from side to side this continued for 250 centuries in which the American continent began to slowly populate. Eventually the ice age ended and the sea level arose again and the bridge disappeared. With the bridge now gone the people where now isolated but with the climatic warming that melted the bridge, also made way for ice less valleys to travel creating various opportunities for further immigration.The Ice Age not only helped populate North America but it also shaped it to be what we know it like today.