European Arrival In Mesoamerica Essay

The origins of European dominance in medieval ages track back to the beginning of human history. According to fossil studies, early humans first appeared in Africa around four million years ago and expanded into Asia and Europe three million years later. By half million years ago, early human skulls in Africa, Asia, and Europe started being sufficiently similar to those of modern humans. Fossils do not show any human presence in the Americas and Australia by then, not until around 40,000 years ago during a huge development of tools that included rise of water craft which enabled humans to reach Australia. The colonization of the Americas followed around 25,000 years later after human improved enough to knit heavy clothes and travel to the Americas
Due to the mountains and craters-rich vertical axis that distinguish the Americas, Australia, and Africa, people found expanding too hard as the climate dramatically changed along with the change of latitude. As humans eventually conquered the change in temperature by clothes, animals surely did not, so they could not travel between the arctic climate north of Mesoamerica and the tropical climate of South America. On the other hand, food production and domesticates spread through Eurasia pretty quickly due to the vast horizontal spaces that allowed fast migration without having to worry about climatic changes. The speed of expansion of food production varied considerably that it spread from the Philippines east to Polynesia at a rate of 3.2 miles per year while at a rate of 0.3 miles per year from Mexico northward to the U.S. Therefore, Eurasia did not only have the advantage in the origins of food production and domesticates, but also in the rate of diffusion of these compelling factors of