The atlantic world And contract
- Discuss the motives for this period of discovery—gold, trade, slavery and labor, conversion and the Atlantic colonies. What do you think was a more forceful and driving motive for the European states? Why?
- How do you think we as historians would see these events from the indigenous side of contact? Why are the majority of these sources from the European perspective? How would this create a Eurocentric perspective of these events?
- Describe how and why the native populations were decimated by non-native diseases. Was this bound to happen despite the intentions of Europeans? How were they more protected than native peoples?
