European Advantages

The European Advantages in conquering the America’s are commonly know. They are things such as their location, their advanced ship building and navigation skills, their motivation to spread Christianity and the fact that they brought disease into the places that they conquered killing many native people without them having to do anything. These are things I have known for a long time but I never thought of them as advantages the Europeans had. It is odd to say that an advantage is the fact that they are bringing disease to place because it isn’t something that they had to work to make happen. I didn’t view the European Advantages as advantages until this text told me they were advantages. I was always taught that there was motivation and opportunity. I also never thought about why Asia didn’t conquer the America’s and what made Europe more able and motivated to conquer the America’s until now. It is interesting to know that Asia had a more stable economy and larger territory and wasn’t motivated to conquer or expand their civilizations in the America’s because unlike Europe they didn’t need to expand at the time.