HS102 W2Assignment.docx HS102 Narrative Essay HS102 Week 2 Assignment Grantham Unive

HS102   W2Assignment.docx  HS102  Narrative Essay HS102  Week 2 Assignment  Grantham University  During the time when Europeans began to navigate around the world, they brought changes to the people that were inhabitants of the land they settled. Amongst those inhabitants were Africans and Native Americans. The early settlers on the land broke down many of the ecosystems and began to bring in new organisms but they would ultimately eliminate the other life forms such as the Native Americans Indians of the lands. Organisms were not the only thing brought into this New World by the European settlers, they brought harmful diseases. Those harmful diseases would contribute to the eradication of the Native American population. The Atlantic System, also known as the Triangular Trade, would send 12 to 15 million Africans to the Americas and the Carribeans to work hard labor as slaves in cotton fields and sugarcane fields