To understand more about the different cultures, economic patterns and the globalization process,

it is usually studied the root of the process, which is the maritime navigations of the 15th and 16th
century, lead by the Portuguese and Spanish and succeeded by the English, French and Dutch.
These sailings across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans remodeled the shape of the world
and introduced the peoples of the New World and Europeans to culture aspects and diseases
unknown to both sides. While the history tells us that the development of these colonies under
European ruling failed miserably, with a historic of exploitation and slavery, not a lot is actually
portrayed about the first encounter of the people of the New World and the Europeans itself. My
goal on this paper is to illustrate the views of these encounters based on the accounts of both
sides - the Europeans and non-Europeans - by analyzing and contrasting sources from the 16th,
17th and 18th centuries and contextualize those sources with the history of these periods.