Answer to Question #252925 in History for nghiapham

Question

In what ways did Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous Peoples create a New World?

Answer 1

The New World refers to the western hemisphere, especially the Americas, after the European “age of discovery” beginning in the early 16th century. The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian (before European contact) inhabitants of North America, Mesoamerica, and South America as well as Greenland.

Africans came to the New World in the earliest days of the Age of Exploration. In the early 1500s, Africans trekked across the many lands in North, Central, and South America that were claimed by Spain, some coming in freedom and some in slavery, working as soldiers, interpreters, or servants.

The Europeans brought technologies, ideas, plants, and animals that were new to America and would transform peoples' lives: guns, iron tools, and weapons; Christianity and Roman law; sugarcane and wheat; horses and cattle. They also carried diseases against which the Indian peoples had no defenses.

Indigenous Americans also created pottery, paintings, jewelry, weaving and textiles, sculptures, basketry, carvings, beadwork, and other objects that comprise a major category in world art history.