MC from Olivia Oppelt

In The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury, the humans try to colonize Mars in a way similar to the Europeans trying to colonize America. In the beginning of the book there are four expeditions in which men are sent from Earth to Mars to see if there is potential for humans to live on the land similarly to the way Europeans sent men on many expeditions to America to see if the land would be profitable for them and suitable for their living situations. Both of these expeditions involved sufficient decreases in the natives’ populations and exploration of the new found land. Within the first four expeditions to Mars, the humans accidentally killed most of the Martians; bringing with them chicken pox to the land. Likewise while inhabiting America, the Europeans brought over a variety of diseases that the Native Americans had no way to protect  themselves from. Over time the Earth men forced their culture and ways of life upon the Martians just as the Europeans made the Native Americans conform to their way of life. The earth men changed Mars in many ways similar to the ways Europeans changed America.