Transatlantic Encounters

European exploration and colonization of the New World affected the peoples of the Americas greatly. The reason why there are barely any South American natives still alive today was caused by the insatiability greed for land/gold by the European explorers. Cortez's annihilation of the Aztec Empire, Pizarro destruction of the Inca Empire, and the disease epidemics spread from the white settlers, brought deaths to thousands of the aboriginal people.…