Answer to Question #231231 in History for sparta

Question

What difficulties do historians encounter in using Columbus’ journals and 16^th-century European engravings as sources for understanding the encounter between European explorers and indigenous peoples of the New World c. 1492 (The Americas)? How would you advise historians to approach these sources?

Answer 1

Colonization cracked many ecosystems, getting in new organisms while eradicating others. The Europeans transported many illnesses with them that destroyed Native American inhabitants. Colonists and Inborn Americans alike observed to new plants as likely medicinal properties. Would advice historians to effectively consider all the parties in these scenario to effecively know all the encounters available.