Essay On Colonial American Culture

When the European colonists came to the Americas, they saw many new and different aspects of life and a whole new world unlike their own. Two major elements the colonists saw were the native “barbarians” who had their own culture and as well as the native land filled with opportunity to grow crops and many colonists had different views on how to treat these newly found treasures.
When the colonists explored the Americas, they met many native tribes. These tribes had varying cultures depending on where they lived, if corn had reached them yet, and on how soon the Europeans met them. The colonists thought the natives were lesser people than themselves and saw them as barbaric. Yet, the colonists also saw that the people in the tribes were very