In The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, humans try to colonize Mars in a similar way as the Europeans tried to colonize in America. Both expeditions included obstacles and exploring of the new land. Similar to the natives being bombarded in the Americas and receiving various diseases from the Europeans, the natives on Mars faced challenges such as getting chicken pox from the new explorers. Both of these cases caused the natives’ populations to decrease sufficiently. Another similarity is that the new explorers brought their own culture and traditions. When the new explorers first came to each new destination the natives were able to fight back, but as time went on they were unable to fight back and had to conform to the new ways of live that were introduced to them. In the end of each exploration both populations were effected in size and their way of life altered drastically.
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