A Struggle To Become Successful

This is the period where the Modern era started, it was a period of development, gone were the days of the Middle period, in this period, Europeans controlled the sea lanes around the world and eventually created the global market and spread their ideology and culture all around. Since the Black Death in 1346, western Europeans had experienced constant attacks of deadly diseases, with an addition of famines and bloody wars. They couldn't escape death, dead bodies laid on the streets and roads, and most people had lost members of their family through one sudden occurrence or another. The Europeans of the time were constantly aware that life was extremely precious. You are here today and gone tomorrow so as a consequence, they set little to no value on human life, their own as well as that of others. Their societies were very poor, they were societies with a scarcity of food and shelter for everyone to survive.

Due to this, they competed a lot, these people were willing to take desperate risks in the hopes of "getting ahead. " However, they know in a society as competitive as theirs, success was not permanent. It was short lived just lived everything else they see and know. No sooner did one succeed that someone would very swiftly snatch that success away like it never happened. They knew that all of life was a risky business, so they were ready gamblers who were always willing to risk anything and by that I mean even their lives, in hope of some gain. They were, by large, excessively poor and disease-ridden, and many were used to going hungry and cold and sick while still having to work because there was little wealth available to help the likes of them in their world. The men from this world, who became today,s discoverers and conquerors were generally poor men. Columbus was raised to become a weaver, Francisco Pizarro was a swine-herd, and so on. They may appear to us to have been savage hypocrites, but its just that they were people who were born into poverty and were risking everything to become successful. If they lied and killed in order to succeed, they were not one bit surprised when they themselves were lied to and murdered. Their ending stories elaborate more on that, Columbus was sent back to Spain in chains, Pizarro was stabbed while at prayer and Cortez was shipped back to Spain and spent his last days alone and disregarded.