European Advantages

Europe had many things working in their favor, helping them begin to build their empires in the Americas.  Europeans were advanced in techniques such as, "mapmaking, navigation, sailing techniques, and ship design", which helped them in their attempts to start their empires in the Americas.  Also, Europe was advanced in their seafaring technology, which helped them in transporting people and goods far distances easily across the Atlantic Ocean.  They also had advanced gunpowder weapons and ironworking technology, which they brought to the Americas.  Another advantage that significantly helped Europeans was their diseases that they brought to the Americas.  Since the Native Americans had no immunity to the foreign diseases brought over by the Europeans, many of them were killed, which benefitted the Europeans by helping them outnumber the Native Americans.  These European advantages are what helped the Europeans begin to build their empires in the Americas.