Advantages and Disadvantages.

Advantages and disadvantages

After the plague, the only things that the Europeans had were their colonies as a way to regain wealth and power. Following the Columbus voyages to the Americas, Spain was focused in gain the Caribbean land and conquers the Azteca and the Inca Empires. Incas did not see Spain as invaders; they saw them as liberators because there was a violent dispute between brothers (Atahualpa and Huascar) for the Inca throne. Certainly, Europeans came to invade them reader than to help them in that dispute that they saw as advantage for them. The increase of diseases that the Europeans brought with them also helps them to conquer these Natives societies that decline in number. Those diseases were new to the Natives Americans because they did not have contact with the Afro-Eurasian world until now. But not everything that the Europeans brought to the Americans was bad, they also brought with them animals and plants than later the Natives Americans were able to reproduce. Wheat, rice, sugarcane, grapes and other garden vegetables and fruits were introduced to them. Animals like horses, pigs, cattle, goats, sheep were able to multiply because of the large and rich environment found in the Americans.

When the Europeans went back to their origin destination, they brought with them corn, potatoes and cassava that later spread all over the place. Potatoes and corn help the Europeans to increase in number because those products were cheap and provide calories necessary for the growth of the population after the decline of people because of the plague. As a way to show wealth and power to other civilizations, Europeans also brought with them precious metal such as gold and silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru.   Native woman were also important as a part of the perpetration of futures generations of Europeans. They saw that in marry an European men the possibility to secure her children from the force work that Native Americans were impose to do as part of the encomienda system.

As we can see, there were more advantages for the Europeans than for the Natives Americans that suffered to keep the national prosperity of the Old World.