Part 4 & Chapter 14

The Early Modern Era began in the 1450s and ended in 1750. To many of the historians, the term "early modern era" were used to suggest that during these three centuries we can find signs of a new era being born by the change in globalization, societies, and the growth of what is now called continents, especially for Europe.  One of the major changes was in globalization because of the many voyages they went on traveling through the oceans. They were able to spread out and expand their empire. The Western European empires had taken over most of the Americas by maritime expansion. A maritime voyager had three main things in mind, Gold, God, and Glory. When discovering the Americas, one of the main voyagers had been Christopher Columbus. When they had met the first peoples of the Americas, they referred them to as savages. Christopher Columbus had very mixed thoughts about the savages. He thought they were friendly, gentle, they handsome structure, and they thought of the men were so strong that they had the strength of 40 or 45 men. They already had a plan of taking over the land, but found that they didn't have to force them to convert them to their lifestyle. They were able to convert them to their religion and their lifestyle. But because the aboriginals weren't use to some of the things they had brought from Europe, they had gotten sick causing the "Great Dying", which drastically changed the numbers of Native Americans. It cause 80-90% to die, and exposed them to new diseases. Which did help the take over of the Americas.