Strayer, Chapter 14 (pp. 397-401)

 In the reading it explains the colonization of North and South America. In the east coast of North America is where the British settled. The Portuguese and Spanish settled in the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and in the andean areas. The Europeans has a major advantage in finding the America's because the winds in the atlantic moved the ships in the direction towards the America's. Also the had more of a developed society, such as disease, religion, Catholic. When the Europeans came into contact with the native americans, it gave them multiple diseases and that was when the great dying started accruing within the natives. The Columbian exchange market took place mostly in Mexico and the Caribbean. In the market, settlers would exchange food, metals, animals, and diseases that killed the native americans.In Mexico, Spanish settlers forced the remaining native americans to mine for gold and silver.