With the influx of goods, the Indians ideas of who was wealthy or poor suddenly changed. Before, the wealthy were old and well established families, but with the introduction of manufactured goods that idea changed. Previously poor families could become rich in the eyes of their fellow villagers by owning numerous European goods. The goods would increase a person’s wealth, power, or prestige (Saunt, 1986). This threw the established order into chaos with the rise of new families, because it undermined the existing hierarchies. The previous leaders saw a decline in their power and most eventually lost all political power to the rise of the new warrior class. This warrior class was comprised of the hunters that traded with the
With the influx of goods, the Indians ideas of who was wealthy or poor suddenly changed. Before, the wealthy were old and well established families, but with the introduction of manufactured goods that idea changed. Previously poor families could become rich in the eyes of their fellow villagers by owning numerous European goods. The goods would increase a person’s wealth, power, or prestige (Saunt, 1986). This threw the established order into chaos with the rise of new families, because it undermined the existing hierarchies. The previous leaders saw a decline in their power and most eventually lost all political power to the rise of the new warrior class. This warrior class was comprised of the hunters that traded with the