The Impact of Disease on Native American Culture Though warfare and attacks on entire villages took a definite toll on the populations of Native Americans‚ disease was by far the biggest killer. We’ve all heard the stories of smallpox infected blankets being given to the Native Americans‚ and other such atrocities‚ but I was simply dumbfounded at the actual numbers of dead due to Old World diseases being introduced to the New World‚ North America. While it has been somewhat difficult for scholars
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RUNNING HEADING: The European influence on Native American The European influence on Native American By Eric Orr COM 220 Axia College Melanie Jeffrey‚ Instructor By early 1600s the Native American formed a confederacy to work against the Europeans. The Europeans influence the culture of the Native American by bring diseases‚ constant warfare because the over taking of land‚ guns‚ steel hatchets‚ pots‚ and kettles of brass ‚and even the way to
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Reasons the Europeans Were Victorious The European explorers were able were able to defeat the Native Americans and overpower the West Africans was due to many proximate and ultimate factors that granted the Europeans the advantage. The proximate factors that helped the Europeans were their guns‚ germs‚ and steel. The Europeans had built immunity to many of the diseases and germs that they had been exposed to over the years while in Europe. But the Native Americans had never seen such diseases
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two cultures ‚ Europeans and Native American. Europeans had established communities where they lived and worked. Native Americans had settlements but they moved around a lot they were nomadic . Europeans were usually Christians ‚ but Native Americans believed more in the existence and powers of many other spirits . They had strong‚ central leadership while the Natives tended to do things in harmony ‚ consensus . They also had a little regard for women ‚ while many Native cultures were actually
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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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number of similarities‚ the Europeans of the early 16th century had many differences with the Native Americans of the same era. When the Europeans first "discovered" the Americas in the late 1400s-early 1500s‚ they expected to find a land filled with savages that had little or no intelligence or technological advancements. However‚ these European explorers came to realize that the Native Americans were far more civilized than they had imagined. When the first European explorers reached North America
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between Europeans and Native Indians Americans The American History was built under several wars‚ people suffering‚ and religious conflicts. Starting with Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to the Asian continent in 1492‚ his plans were to find a huge amount of wealth to make Spain rich‚ and also bring the Christianity to the new land. Frustrated in fail while trying to find Asian‚ instead he found the American continent. Such fact Columbus began to act aggressive towards Native Americans‚ enslaving
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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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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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arrival of the Europeans (The Untold History of Native American Slavery). The Native Americans who participated in the slave trade used it as a tactic for survival. The Indian slave trade aided the substantial decrease in the Native American populations following the arrival of the Europeans along with devastating epidemics (The Untold History of Native American Slavery). This endured much into the eighteenth century and then was replaced with African slavery. The Native American slave trade’s legacy
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