Body Paragraph #2: Effects on European Colonization

One of the first colonization of the Americas that was know to man, was around the time of 1492. The expedition that was lead by Christopher Columbus, was what sparked the European to go on expeditions and colonize rapidly. The Europeans first went thought the Caribbean, then Hispaniola, Cuba, then into the Americas. The Europeans enslaved the indigenous people in order to have a labor force. After spending several years with the indigenous people, the Europeans learned new and innovated ways to cultivate their crops. The Europeans also learned the language and the culture of the indigenous people. They learned that some of the indigenous, the Aztecs. They learned that in order to please their gods, they has ceremonies in which they did human sacrifices and ate the beating heart of the deceased person. The Europeans also had trouble understanding the language that the people spoke. Soon many of them were able to translate one language to another that made it easier for the Europeans to trade and easier for them to later conquer their land. The Europeans did not only get a new way to cultivate their crops, but they also got necessary resources needs to conquer and take land from the indigenous people.