This week, we’ve explored the driving factors that contributed to European exploration and colonization of the Americas. Keep in mind that while European nations fueled these voyages, the people that arrived in the Americas were both European and African- a mix of free, indentured, and enslaved status.
Let’s talk about the consequences, outcomes, and legacies of European and African arrival in the Americas. The impacts on the Indigenous people throughout what we now call “North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean” cannot be underestimated.
Please craft an initial discussion post that speaks to the following points:
- What were the outcomes of arrival/conquest/colonization of the Americas for Indigenous people and nations?
- What were the outcomes for Europeans? For Africans?
- How do we see legacies of the “collision of three worlds- the Americas, Africa, and Europe”- in today’s world?