Saturday, October 5, 2019

Reflection, Module 5: European Colonization I

During this particular Module it was filled with a lot of information it is kind of a reflection of the last module such as giving info on who started it and how, but this is way may in depth. In the last module, we talked about the Spanish starting this whole colonization thing now in this chapter we going to get in how each European colony wanted a piece of this money pie. So as we all know the Spanish started this whole colonization in the Americas and it was starting to become HUGE! especially in the early 1500s. So the New World Colonization had three different parts to it which were the Conquest, Commerce, and Settlement; they are broken down by each "colony" so the Conquest was the Spanish those people were literally trying to take over the world, and honestly they were pretty close to doing it. This took place during 1519 - 1550s, and then we move on to the Commerce these are the colonies that we didn't see too much of they were simple and really wanted a piece of the money pie just like everyone else. I honestly wish that the other colonies were just like the French, the Dutch, and the Swedish. But we all know that is very wishful thinking like I explained before the French were there just to get some lute they worked with the Indians. These people had their own agenda. And last but not least we get to the Settlements which were the English/ British colonization, and these were the most idiotic people in my opinion because they expected to come to a new world and have everything handed to them so when reality hit it hit hard. They had to keep sending people just because they did NOT know how to survive which is extremely sad, during the early 1600s they began trying to survive and then slaves began to become a lot bigger than expected. These colonizers tried to used slaves out of everyone but the only ones that they really latched to were the Africans and this is because the whites had made their own race and didn't want to be apart of anything colored. From this module, I learned how everything began also how they separated and the outcome of each of these colonizations, I learned out from the readings and the class videos. Fun fact I can not forget how I learned about Pochohantas coming into this whole history line!

Gama, Vasco da, et al. “European Colonization in North America: Spanish, French, Dutch, & British Colonies (Unit I, Segment 1 of 5) - Ppt Video Online Download.” SlidePlayer“European 

Exploration of the New World.” Spain, bullisglobalhistoryspain.weebly.com/.slideplayer.com/slide/4761954/.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for your blog post, you made some very valid points, and i do agree, spain was defintely trying to take over, they were one of the most wealthiest country in the 1500s.

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  2. Hello Essence,

    The fact that people consistently perished due to lack of knowledge on survival was somewhat comical. It went to show just how much they were dependent on the Natives that they always try to establish superiority over. Instead of learning to coexist and gain knowledge from them they decided to let greed get the best of their judgment and cause suffering to so many people.

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