European exploration
History of US 1
March 20, 2014
Professor Mohanty
European exploration to the Americas had a very substantial affect, not only on their own culture, but also on the culture of the Native Americans. Many Native American tribes had to adapt and assimilate with the European explorers and settlers as their lives became increasingly disrupted and altered as settlement increased and flourished. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the effect European exploration and trade had on Native groups of people in North America and their integration with the European colonies. Two of the most important and central reasons that European culture so quickly overcame the culture of the Native American tribes were European trade and disease.
The European discovery of America had a colossal affect on the Native Americans that came into contact with the Europeans. One would imagine that it would take a very long time for two completely different groups of people to assimilate, but in fact, it did not. “For the resident native American peoples, however, the flood of intruders into their homeland soon changed their entire existence.”1 Many things led to the assimilation of Native Americans with the Europeans settlers, but two of the main reasons were: disease brought by the Europeans and trade between the settlers and Europe. These two completely different cultures would not remain individual and isolated cultures for long. “By the close of the colonial era, Native Americans as well as whites and blacks had created new societies, each similar to, yet very different from its parent culture.”2 One reason for this were the new diseases brought by the settlers into America. These diseases that the Native Americans had never been exposed to before would pollute and kill many of their people. Europeans came over to the new world for many different reasons. One reason was that the Black Death had decimated an over populated England. When the English found out there was a new
March 20, 2014
Professor Mohanty
European exploration to the Americas had a very substantial affect, not only on their own culture, but also on the culture of the Native Americans. Many Native American tribes had to adapt and assimilate with the European explorers and settlers as their lives became increasingly disrupted and altered as settlement increased and flourished. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the effect European exploration and trade had on Native groups of people in North America and their integration with the European colonies. Two of the most important and central reasons that European culture so quickly overcame the culture of the Native American tribes were European trade and disease.
The European discovery of America had a colossal affect on the Native Americans that came into contact with the Europeans. One would imagine that it would take a very long time for two completely different groups of people to assimilate, but in fact, it did not. “For the resident native American peoples, however, the flood of intruders into their homeland soon changed their entire existence.”1 Many things led to the assimilation of Native Americans with the Europeans settlers, but two of the main reasons were: disease brought by the Europeans and trade between the settlers and Europe. These two completely different cultures would not remain individual and isolated cultures for long. “By the close of the colonial era, Native Americans as well as whites and blacks had created new societies, each similar to, yet very different from its parent culture.”2 One reason for this were the new diseases brought by the settlers into America. These diseases that the Native Americans had never been exposed to before would pollute and kill many of their people. Europeans came over to the new world for many different reasons. One reason was that the Black Death had decimated an over populated England. When the English found out there was a new