They also spread religion, languages and a new economic system. The Europeans brought over knowledge that was useful such as “people of the Americas realized that crops with higher caloric value could not only feed more people, but also allowed people to work harder because they were more energized.” (Doc 3) An important crop was potatoes which could be left in the ground until they were ready to be eaten. Essential animals were pigs and horses.…
As for Spain they were provided a variety of fruits and vegetables, this created a new sourced of wealth for Europeans. Europe established a relationship between countries, which helped Spain become a major world power. The Columbian also introduced Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Because of the diseases Europeans were transferring, which killed the Native Americans, Europeans resulted to using Africans as slaves. This caused population and culture loss.…
The intended audience of the article “ The Indians' Old World:Native Americans and the Coming of European”, are the general public and historians because the article shows how a lot of people give more importance of American history after Columbus rather than before Columbus and criticize how historians know much less history prior to arrival of columbus in 1492. For instance, the author Neal Salisbury states that “historians now recognize that Europeans arrived, not in a virgin land, but in one that was teeming with several million people (435)”. 2. The author’s main argument is that there was densely populated society before European arrival, how certain patterns and processes originated before and after contact with the Europeans.…
The impacts of the exploration cannot be ignored since this changed the lives of the first Americans. Some of the positive impacts include the change of lifestyle, from being a tribe of hunting and gathering to a tribe that could trade with others and exchange goods. Despite the diseases coming along, some members of the tribe managed to survive the illness and gained victory to their names. It is important to acknowledge that the Indian culture took a new shift of events that helped the early Americans to grow. The tribe unlike other tribes managed to go through slavery and the control of the Europeans but endured the whole situation and managed to defeat the Europeans at their own game.…
1. What was Native American society like before European contact? What similarities and difference existed? The indigenous peoples of what is now the United States were split into countess tribes, practiced a variety of religions and traditions, and developed different ways of life in different environments across North America.…
The Natives also had to worry about fighting such as battles like the Sand Creek massacre. Native Americans had to adjust to the whites and the way they treated them. With Buffalo's becoming extinct it affected and made life harder for them. The Westward Expansion impacted the Native Americans land and culture.…
European explorers and the colonization of Indian Tribes heavily impacted the north American in the New World from 1492-1609. European explorers and their colonization of the Indian tribes affected the Native Americans socially, politically, and economically. Socially, the European explorers forced Indians to convert to Christianity and decimated the Native Population. Politically, Europeans caused Indians to aid each other in protecting themselves against the Europeans. Economically, the Europeans introduced the Indians to new goods and spread their trade.…
The native Americans showed the Europeans many safe places basically gave them a tour of their village and help them collect food, water and create shelter. Soon language became one of the problems between both of them most of the communication between them was sign language. Indians were not able to form a successful coalition against the Europeans because Europeans were way more advanced with technology. Europeans brought many things along with them such as weapons, men, horses, and most of all diseases. Native Americans could not fight against disease many of them…
Other regions such as the Americas were utterly devastated as a result. The impact of exploration was profoundly negative for indigenous peoples. Europeans consciously worked to re-create the Old World in whatever lands they found themselves. Religious, political, and social modes were introduced and native customs suppressed or destroyed. The high culture of Native American civilizations disappeared shortly after European contact.…
Native Americans history began thousands of years before Columbus, first European, step foot on their land in North America. The Native Americans are a significant part of the United States culture. Many of the past on stories were created by them specifically. Natives have lived on American land for longer than anyone ever remember. The Native American’s were the first ethnic group to find America, however, they live on this land without no disruption nor struggle.…
In the year of 1492, the Spanish monarchs funded Christopher Columbus on his voyage to what was later called “the New World,” initiating a race between European countries to send out explorers to become the continent’s dominating power. Driven by the promise of wealth, status, and new beginnings, explorers conquered the lands of North and South America, resulting in their direct disruption of the indigenous peoples’ lives. Following this contact, the lives of both Native Americans and Europeans were permanently transformed by the Europeans’ desire for wealth and need to spread and dominate through religion. While providing beneficial outcomes for Europeans, these motives ultimately incited the deterioration of once-thriving native civilizations…
The Native Americans of the Southwest lived in a very “bipolar” region. They had some mountains, but many sand hills. They had trees and cacti, and were able to plant peach trees, beanstalks, melon, squash, and corn. Because their geography and climate, it is shown all over the exhibit with sand on the ground and cacti near the water at the top left corner of the exhibit. The climate was a hot desert area with little rain near the Pacific Ocean.…
Interactions between Europeans and Native Americans While attempting to find a faster route to the Indies, Christopher Columbus discovered another land instead. Since the English, French and Spanish were all seeking power at the time that same land would soon after be explored. As the news of the discovery spread, the English shortly found power in the acquisition of the land itself, the French in fur trade, and the Spanish in conquering and exploiting the Native Americans that originally inhabited the area. During the process of fulfilling their achievements, each European had different approaches and distinct encounters with the local Native Americans. The English initially had friendly relationships with them, but with time and trade, hostility…
When Europeans came to North America for the first time, they called it The New World, because to them it was a land that was mysterious in many ways. The native population that lived in North America was nothing like that of Europe and the environment of North America was even more foreign. There was no way of knowing the effect of European settlement and what the consequences of their actions would be on the native people and the land. Before the invasion of Europeans in North America, the Natives had a system of living. Their way of life and ability to live off the land were soon challenged by European expansion and technology.…
Europeans needed slaves, so they took advantage of the Indians and forced them to be their slaves. When they found Indians, they could use to build and sell things, they captured and solved them as slaves. Also, new trade routes were discovered when the connection between Europe and the Americas happened. The Europeans introduced trade goods to Indians which interested them into using them in their everyday lives. Another important aspect to the Europeans, was the spread of religion because the Indians would be the first people they could introduce it to.…