Jan 14

 

I think it is unfair how the Native Americans got diseases from the Europeans and died.  Also how the Africans were made slaves is completely unjust. Although their skin is a different color, they are still human beings and deserve to be treated as such. It is very interesting how a lot of the plants and animals came from the Americas. Thus in order to attain food, Europeans and Asians had to make trade with the Americans. According to the text book, "wheat, rice, sugarcane, grapes, and many garden vegetables and fruits, as well as numerous weeds, took hold in the Americas... even more revolutionary were their animals - horses, pigs, cattle, goats, sheep" (Strayer, 624). This just shows that there was a lot of food being imported to other countries from the Americas.