subject: For Want of Great Power [print this page] One could say that from the first time the European culture tasted the spices and sugars of the Far East, the Americas were doomed. Such a lust for power and money led to the speedy expansion of European culture to the Americas, and once the kings and queens of Europe saw that such wealth and power was theirs for the taking, this lust could not be sated, and nothing would stop the European from trampling through the Americas.
