Question

what was the impact of european exploration on the native americans

Answer 1

Devastating. Europe essentially leveraged its superior technology against the natives, encroaching on their territory and marginalizing their power. The Spanish, for example, annihilated both the Aztecs and the Incans on two different continents. Later, diseases like smallpox carried from Europe (to which the natives had no immunity against) killed nearly 90% of the native population in the span of a century or two.