The early settlers of America were hunters & gatherers in 18,000-15,000 B.C. and mostly based in Mexico and South America. When agriculture arrives in 2,000 B.C., hunting was still a practice. As the time demanded, Native Americans adapted to highly demanded environments to meet their needs. And after the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans struggled raptly to preserve the essentials of their diverse cultures while adapting to drastically changing conditions. Native American lived in Western hemisphere. They created cultures that ranged from centralized empires (the Incas and Aztecs) to societies, which combined hunting, fishing, and …show more content…
farming. All had adapted to the particular environments in which they lived. The land was not owned by anyone, it was worked on as a community. When Europeans arrived at east coast in 15th and 16th century, The Native Americans were quite accommodating. Without their help, they would not have survived in the land they knew nothing about. But in turn they disregarded all respect for this land and instead displayed a never ending greed. Native American realized that they will reach in a significant number soon and the Europeans did the same. And soon after a deadly epidemics aided the land. The Indians were highly susceptible to the diseases and so many diseases affected the population, and in turn reduced the Indian population significantly. Europeans continue to explore and they reach Northern Africa and West Africa. As Spanish explored America, Portuguese were the first to reach in Africa. And slavery started in this era. Portuguese purchased slaves from West Africa giving certain justifications.
Native American, European and African societies independently existed for thousands of years before they came in direct contact with each other.
In the Americas and Africa, all the societies were both Sedentary and semi sedentary. While in Europe they were mostly Sedentary. All three continents had complex political structures. As Spanish and Portuguese explored the Atlantic, a happy accident and a miscalculation led to transatlantic exploration, which no one could have planned. In tropical Caribbean and Brazil, Europeans enslaved Native Americans and quickly drove them into extinction. And soon the agriculture demands led Europeans to import slave from Africa. And two great empires, Aztec and Incan, collapsed in response to unseen biological
forces.