Monday, November 12, 2007

All Shook Up!

The landscape of America was changed drastically by the colonization of the Americas. The reason the landscape changed so dramatically is because the natives used the land differently than Europeans did. When the Spanish and the English came in they started to cut down trees and build establishments. The Natives needed the land and everything that goes with it to live their daily lives and stay alive, so they worshipped it. Then these arrogant white men come in and start to destroy what they love and worship the most. They enslaved the Natives, but when Native population dropped too low to fulfill the Europeans labor needs they turned to Africa for slaves. These rich white men that came out of nowhere came and messed a lot of people's lives up. In all these events that happened the Old World only changed a tad bit; they got new food, slaves, and tobacco. The New World, on the other hand, was as messed up as could be. People got separated from their families, war, violence, rape, racism, and the white man rules everything became the way of life. The landscape and the people were all thrown around too much and taken for granted by the white man!