Colonial Empires in the Americas

"To Celebrate Columbus is to congratulate the process and history of the invasion"- Winona LaDuke, president of the Indigenous Woman's Network. This man viewed Columbus as a thief, slave trader and a the perpetrator of genocide. While the European Colonies like the Spanish, Portugese, British, French and Dutch were constructing all across the Wester Hemisphere. This was a time when new societies were swiping out old ones and Europeans and Africans came into contact for the first time ever. The early modern era was a time when people mingled and this represented a new globalization process which still lingers in the twenty first century today. By the mid-eighteenth century, Europeans extended their empires throughout the Americas.Since the winds of the Atlantic ocean blew towards the east coast of the Americas, which were different that the Monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean,  be Europens me motivated to reach the Americas. Manny people had different incentives to begin a new life in the Americas for example; persecuted minorities. During the"great dying", many people in the Americas died, wipping out a vast majority of their population. Afterwards, the columbian exchange brought horses, pigs, cattle, goats and sheep which had never been brought to the Americas. Since there were no natural predators for these animals, they multiplies immensely. Mesitzos were offspring of native american women and a spanish men. They represented a majority of the population of Mexico and cultural blending had become a central feature of the country's identity. Many surviving indian women wanted security of life in a Spanish household, where their children would not be affected by harsh demands on native peoples. Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico, fathered children with two of Moctezuma's daughters. Sugar became very well known and African slaves from Africa were depended on for the sugar industry to remain stable. Portugese and Spanish colonies were a wide variety of mixed-race groups. In North America, one percentage of african ancestry in a person made them "black". In Brazil, people with African ancestry were not considered black, but some other mixed race. A person wo was white was more privileged and had better opportunities. The United states usted to be the "dregs" of the colonial world. The U.S. was more democratic and economically stable that the divided, unstable Latin America.