Chapter 14 Part 1

I found the first part of chapter 14 interesting because I like reading about how things got started in the world. I thought it was interesting how everything started in Africa and then spread out to the rest of the world. How the other continents would have had a lot less if the first humans did not first travel to other places. What if the people never decided to migrate East, West, North, or South? How long would the majority population have survived if they never left Africa? How would America look if people from different continents didn't find the Americas? The migrations to the Americas brought good and bad for the natives living there. The people that were already living there, let's call them Native Americans, were living a content and good life before the Europeans came along and indirectly caused 90% to die. The Europeans brought diseases to the Americas that the Native Americans were not immune to, making them fatal. But if the diseases hadn't caused the majority of the Native Americans to die, I'm sure that the Europeans would have ended up killing them anyway because they knew how easy the Native Americans would have been to conquer because they were so ignorant to the technologies that the Europeans had. Although the arrival of the Europeans brought a lot of bad things to the Americas, it also brought a lot of the things that the present day would not have. There are a lot of animals and plants that we would not have had if the Europeans would not have migrated over here. Therefore, the Europeans had a big impact on the Americas, good and bad.