- They were closer to the Americas than other patential competitors
- better invention and techniques than others
- reason to expand which was to gain the America's argriculural land
The great Dying:
The contact between Native American people with Europeans caused diseases to be given to Native Americas such as smallpox, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria, and later yellow fever. This caused Native Americans to die in appalling numbers, losing 90% of the population.
The Great Dying and the impact of age large Ice Age created an acute labor shortage and certainly did made room for immigrant newcomers, both colonizing Europeans and enslaved Africans.
A quite different kind of colonial society emerges in the lowland areas of Brazil, ruled by Portugal, and in Spanish, British, French, and Dutch Colonies in the Caribbean. Europeans found a very profitable substitute in sugar wit was such in demand in Europe, where it was used as a medicine, a spice, a sweetener, and preservative and in sculptured forms as a decoration that indicated high status.
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