When was the country we know now as the United States first settled?
1620 = omit Spanish, Dutch, Indians and the French
First Pilgrims = Spanish Settlers introduced horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, etc. providing basic elements of cowboy culture should be like 1 million BCE problem: “settlers” = white
Scarcity of disease in the Americas super healthy condition no livestock = no diseases from them ; no immunity/never exposed to it low social density encounter a bunch of people, but they would be the same people no new coming contacts some places had high social density - ex. Inca (had roads) really clean; they bathe
Europeans don’t bathe, don’t even change their clothes (gross) but then they were able to build up resistance to diseases... …show more content…
If Indian culture had not been devastated by physical and psychological assaults it had suffered, colonization might not have proceeded at all”
europeans were never able to “settle” in China, India, Japan, Indonesia, or much of Africa* because too many people already lived there
Plague was required in order for the Europeans to settle even with their advantages in military and social technology -- they could dominate, as we see later on in the future --but not “settle”
Mayflower - true or false different reasons for ending up in cape cod instead of virginia navigation error bad weather/storm hijack on purpose *** why everything doesn’t really work except on purpose hijack = put pilgrims in a dishonorable light storm = after storm, go back and change direction (they had plenty of