How did European exploration affect the people of the Americas?(native)?

Question

The Native americans....(in the renaissance time)

Thank you

Peachiie

Answer 1

It drove them to reservations where they built bars and casinos. Some have adopted slightly better social organizations such as maintaining indian cultures and education.

Answer 2

Well they depleted the population of natives and intermingled with the rest.

Answer 3

While the vast majority of the native population did die as a result of the spread of disease, and many others were killed in conquest.  For example, the Mississippian culture of the southern U.S., was decimated by the plague of small pox, and utterly destroyed in wars with other local natives over about a ten year period.  In South America, the Incan succession was thrown into anarchy by small pox, well in advance of the Spanish.  When they finally arrived the Inca were in the throws of a civil war.  

Those that remained adapted to changes caused by the entrance of Europeans to the contenents.  The Souix for example transitioned from a sedentary agrarian society to a more nomadic one with the introduction of horses.  This completely changed the socio-political dynamic in the mid-west.

Answer 4

Let's put it this way: Within a century of Christopher Columbus' arrival, roughly 95% of the existing Native Americans had been exterminated.  That's over 100 million people, making it the largest act of genocide in world history.  

Why isn't this talked about in schools on Columbus Day?

Answer 5

The time you are referring to wouldn't be called the Renaissance, it would be The Age of Discovery.  The largest impact European settlers had was in the spread of smallpox and other diseases.  Native Americans had never been exposed to these diseases and had no resistance, so the vast majority of them died long before the Europeans began arriving in large numbers.  Dutch traders and Spanish explorers exposed natives to the diseases and they spread inland rapidly.  Europeans also destroyed the major civilizations in the New World (Aztecs, Incas, Mayans), altering the history of those regions drastically.  If you really want to know what effect the Europeans had, drive around and see how many Native Americans you see.

Europeans were looking for gold and resources, so they raped the New World and exported the goods back to Europe.  Any natives who got in their way were killed pretty quickly.  The natives did expose the Europeans to tobacco and syphillis, so they had some revenge in the end.

Answer 6

It not only adversely "affected" them, it also "infected" them, with any number of diseases...