Culture Clash

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Culture Clash

• Europeans vs Native Americans and West Africans

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Goals Of European Exploration

• Wanted to expand empires by forming profitable
  colonies
• Exploited Native Americans and West Africans to
  make larger profits

3
Impact On Native Americans

• Took their land
• Tried to make them into slaves
• Majority of Indians died from disease

4
Impact on West Africans

• West Africans sold each other into slavery
• Slavery introduced to new world by Portugal
• American Slavery - 1st multi-generational form of
  slavery

5
Columbian Exchange

• Trade Routes that exchanged products between the
  New World and the Old World