the colonization of the Americas North and South. The British settled in North America along the east coast while the spanish and Portuguese settled in mesoamerica, the caribbean, and the andean areas. The European advantage was the fact that the winds in the atlantic carried the ships in the general direction of the Americas and the more advanced culture of the europeans. The great dying occurred when the europeans came over and the natives contracted various diseases that killed off most of the indian population. The columbian exchange took place in the caribbean and mexico mostly. The exchange was the food which the settlers brought back, the precious metals they mined, the animals they brought, and the diseases that killed off the majority of the native people.
All the settlements in the Americas differed because of where the people came from. In Mexico the spanish made what were left of the indians mine precious metals for them, like gold and silver, but in order for the Portuguese people in Brazil to have a labor force, they needed to import slaves from Africa. They were there for labor in the sugar fields. These two cultures were the same in the sense that they mixed cultures and the spaniards and portuguese had families with the natives where in the americas, color separated the classes, and mixing races was frowned upon.
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