The Europeans and Environmental Impacts (1)
The next part are the environmental effects of the arrival of the Europeans.
Each are of the world has it’s own specific
ecosystem, which is finely balanced to suit the
conditions of that area and which is cultivated
by the population living there to give the best
output.
Naturally, the Europeans, thinking they were
‘superior’, decided that the large areas of land
which were not rainforest or jungle - in North
America - would be perfect for growing crops
such as wheat, corn or maize.
And those lands were perfect for that!
Except … the new crops decimated the existing
flora and fauna.
Who knows what ‘decimated’ means?
To completely destroy.
And what are ‘flora and fauna’?
The flowers, vegetation and animals which exist by eating those flower or that vegetation.
So that was another disaster for the New
World.
Plants which were native to the Americas were
taken back to Europe and had to be cultivated to
make them more suitable for the European
environment.
It wasn’t only crops etc that the European
took; they also introduced livestock to the New
World too.
What’s are these?
A sheep, a goat and a cow.
Just checking that you know.
The introduction of these animals disrupted the
ecosystem and food chain of the new lands and
they bred millions of them. Some tribes were
able to adapt to the new animals, but
unfortunately, these animals tended to wipe out
the animals which were already there, or move
those animals to new areas.
(Note - a cow is not a fighting animal. Neither
are goats or sheep.)
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