Impact Of The Encounter

The Encounter is regarded as a high water mark in the European arrival into the America’s. The Encounter was the meeting between the Europeans, the Africans, and the Native Americans. Perhaps, the most important meeting was between the Europeans and the Native Americans, When Columbus arrived, he discovered a whole new world that was new to many people at the time. No longer was these groups confined to their own world, as they adapted and learned about the people beyond their back doors. With the Encounter, multiple changes were brought about the civilizations which affected them for the rest of their existence. The Encounter is regarded as one of the biggest moments in history since it shaped the world for what it is today. One of the ways The Encounter affected the development was the exchange of crops between the two civilizations. The European’s crops were deemed much more essential in comparison to the crops of the Native Americans. The Europeans crops brought about a new way of living in the Americas. Since the New World was familiar and habitual to their way of living, that it took the time to adjust to the style of the Europeans. Although in the long run, both civilizations flourished, the New world took hits to their people before adapting to the new way of living. They also argued that both

As for if it were a positive or negative event, it honestly depends on who you ask. For the globe as a whole it was a positive, allowing new civilizations access to items and places they wouldn’t have without the Encounter. However, if you ask the Native Americans, they would say it was a negative since it led to the decline of their land and their people. The Encounter will always go down in history as an event that led to the discovery of our home country, but you cannot help but wonder what would’ve happened if Columbus never found