Effects+of+Exploring

When exploration happened in the Americas many of the indigenous died. Diseases like smallpox, influenza, and the barebones plaque that the Europeans brought killed much indigenous. It was so devastating that in the 16th century 80% of the population died from dieses. Also the population in present day Brazil went from 4 million just to a low 300,000. The Wyncote tribe lost half of their numbers to small pox. Some Europeans purposely infected indigenous just to lower the population. Lastly the war killed off the indigenous people with about 4milion died because of that, but that was just a minor cause. **Slavery** When the New World was discovered Europeans made plantations were made and the indigenous they captured were forced to work on them. Later Europeans made an Atlantic slave trade system that they would use over the next 300 years to bring slaves from Africa to the Americas. In 1619 slaves were working on plantations. By 1502 the Spanish got in on the Slave trade and started doing slavery. During the time of slavery over 10 million slaves came from Africa (not including ones that died on the trip across the Atlantic Ocean). At the end of slavery at least 5 million slaves died, and that was the lowest estimation.
 * The indigenous population declined.**

**European countries had much more land** European countries had an abundance of land after exploration. Spain, France, England, and Portugal had a 15% increase in land or even more. France had most of North America and a number of Caribbean islands colonized. Portugal got a big increase of territory because they had much eastern South America as their land. Spain probably had the most land after exploration with western South America, Central America, and Mexico colonized.

**Many indigenous People became Christian** In the time of exploration of the new world Europeans tried to convert everyone to Christianity. In the end of the 1600’s about 2 million indigenous people were converted to Christianity. Also Euro-paeans started to force people to become Christian s, so that made more people being converted. Most of the slaves were Christians too. Europeans probably made at least 4.1 million indigenous people become Christian although a lot may have died.


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 * By: Amari Ebbin **