Ch. 14 P.1

The early modern world brought upon one of the largest shifts in trading and population that the world would come to know.  Not only did Europeans expand their empires to the Americas where no one had previously explored thoroughly, but they brought an enormous change in population.  As Europeans arrived in the fifteenth century, so did infections and illnesses which brought upon the decline of the Native American Indian population.  Another factor for the Indian’s decline was the inhumane treatment of the Europeans towards them in agricultural work.  In other parts where the Indians were scarcer, Europeans brought Africans as slaves to do the agricultural work and most were to die after a few years of arduous work.  During the early modern world the major regions of power were located in Mesoamerica and the Andes.  This started shifting in the nineteenth century to the United States as it became a highly developed country.