Explain How Many Americans Settled In The New World
Chapter One: A New World
The most detailed American historical records begin after European colonization (2). Countless amounts of people recorded the history America captivated until the present times. Answers to many of the questions some people have about America hides in the past, but a good amount of documents provide the public important evidence for some. Explaining how Europeans settled in the New World with various ways of doing so, and why Indians and Europeans live differently will take some detailed information to breakdown.
In the first place, colonization in the New World consisted of a variety of ways to settle. Conquerors primarily focused on settling because the outcomes their former settlements experienced did not benefit the life around them. Christopher Columbus changed the world after he discovered the West Indian islands in 1492 (2).
In 1493, …show more content…
The Indians “suffered devastating epidemics” because European settlers carried diseases they had built an immunity to (2). Sickness killed a staggering percentage of Indians, even though Europeans had fewer cases of becoming sick off of the diseases they brought to America.
Of course, Indian and European societies lived way different lives. Native Americans traveled to America by traveling across the Bering Strait “15,000 and 60,000 years ago” (3). North and South America held civilizations of inhabitants long before European colonists arrived. “No society north of Mexico had achieved literacy” (5). Some Europeans had the fortunate skill of connecting what they read to situations in life.
To set them apart in another way, the Indians “openly engaged in premarital sexual relations and could even choose to divorce their husbands” (10). “Under English law, a married man controlled the family’s property” (10). In Indian gender relation, the women take charge; on the other hand, the English men make the
The most detailed American historical records begin after European colonization (2). Countless amounts of people recorded the history America captivated until the present times. Answers to many of the questions some people have about America hides in the past, but a good amount of documents provide the public important evidence for some. Explaining how Europeans settled in the New World with various ways of doing so, and why Indians and Europeans live differently will take some detailed information to breakdown.
In the first place, colonization in the New World consisted of a variety of ways to settle. Conquerors primarily focused on settling because the outcomes their former settlements experienced did not benefit the life around them. Christopher Columbus changed the world after he discovered the West Indian islands in 1492 (2).
In 1493, …show more content…
The Indians “suffered devastating epidemics” because European settlers carried diseases they had built an immunity to (2). Sickness killed a staggering percentage of Indians, even though Europeans had fewer cases of becoming sick off of the diseases they brought to America.
Of course, Indian and European societies lived way different lives. Native Americans traveled to America by traveling across the Bering Strait “15,000 and 60,000 years ago” (3). North and South America held civilizations of inhabitants long before European colonists arrived. “No society north of Mexico had achieved literacy” (5). Some Europeans had the fortunate skill of connecting what they read to situations in life.
To set them apart in another way, the Indians “openly engaged in premarital sexual relations and could even choose to divorce their husbands” (10). “Under English law, a married man controlled the family’s property” (10). In Indian gender relation, the women take charge; on the other hand, the English men make the