between the Europeans and Native Americans. The Europeans and Native Americans exchanged many goods and ideas when they meet each other in the New World. They shared with each other their own traditions‚ cultures‚ foods‚ languages‚ weapons‚goods; resulting in some positive outcomes and negative as well. When the first Europeans made contact with the native Indians they inadvertently exposed and infected them with their diseases like smallpox‚ yellow fever‚ and malaria. One native population called
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Native Americans before colonization had rich and diverse cultures‚ religions‚ and languages. If I was a Native American during European colonization‚ I would feel threatened by the settlers. The new settlers are a different skin color‚ have different animals‚ different beliefs‚ and different weapons. Moreover‚ humans naturally fear what is different. I know that if I was an Indian and saw these strange colored men riding these never before seen animals I would be weary. Native Americans had to deal
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culture of Europeans and the culture of Native Americans are vastly different‚ which is unsurprising considering that their societies lived on different continents with little to no interactions until European colonization. Almost all the sources of what Native American culture was like comes from the writings of Europeans‚ which means that one cannot know all the intricacies of their culture‚ but from these writings we can see some distinct differences between European and Native American culture.
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The Coming Together Of Two Worlds The Encounter between the Europeans and Native Americans was one of mutual cultural that brought both several favorable and unfortunate outcomes to each other. These two different cultures exchanged many ideas that changed the ways they had once lived before. When these two different worlds collided they were both introduced to multiple crops and animals they had never seen‚ tasted‚ or even heard of. Numerous crops that grow around the world today came from the
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Indian-European contact was unarguably an extremely difficult time for the Indians‚ who experienced massive lifestyle changes. One major change experienced was a reduction in their population‚ as result of the foreign diseases brought in. This reduction in turn affected how well they could defend themselves from the outsiders trying to take control of their territories. Thus‚ most were eventually forced to change their homestead locations. The Indians also experienced a change in how they were perceived
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colonization of America by Europeans resulted in the demand for a sea route to India‚ which was the source of silk and spices‚ products that had a high commercial value in the Old Continent. While sailing westward‚ Europeans intersected with the first habitants of New World‚ the Native Americans. Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries‚ Native Americans saw their populations devastated by the loss of their land and animals‚ from diseases and war. The first Native American group encountered by Christopher
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of land. The case between the Native Americans and the European settlers was no different. Europe was becoming overpopulated which prompted brave individuals to venture across the Atlantic Ocean to claim land in the New World. Their claim of land became an issue as the land was already occupied by the Natives. More settlers came and eventually colonies sprung up‚ which proceeded to push the Natives westwards from their land. Assaults on the colonists by Native Americans to defend their way of life
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Europeans came encounter with the Native Americans and the Native Americans were gift giving people. The British did not understand that they were supposed to be in an alliance with the Native Americans‚ including helping them with their enemies. When the Native Americans realized that the British were not be in an alliance‚ conflict started between the two. Looking at the British‚ it took them a shorter period to reach the Natives‚ and in turn they would regularly make voyages. However‚ the French
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European and Native American ideas of freedom differed in that liberty and freedom were concepts that were natural ingredients to Native American government‚ where as for Europeans‚ freedom had a lot more to do with “Freedom in Christ” rather than freedoms within the government. Even though in Europe‚ women were being burned alive for being suspected of being witches and criminals were publicly whipped‚ they thought that the Natives were barbaric because they had no formal government. In addition
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Developed a Moral System (Ethics)In the Indian society there are well structured boundaries as to what people should and shouldn ’t do. It is similar in many respects to our modern Australian code of ethics; one man should not take the wife of another to be his own or steal from anyone else within their own tribe. Everyone is expected to share what they had for the benefit of the whole region too. So while not everyone likes some of the social law and order that is imposed‚ they all see the importance
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