There was a broad diversity on the view of the world between the Native Americans and Europeans. Together, they created the story of the clash of people, religion, ideas, and cultures. Europeans came to the Americas for many different reasons. Religious freedom, adventure, gold, new opportunity, and land are a few of them. Perhaps the most serious was the different way that Europeans and Native Americans thought about land. Land was extremely important to European settlers because land meant wealth, in which they established many communities where they lived and worked. Many of the settlers in the new country could have never owned land in Europe because they were too poor. The Native Americans believed that no one could own land. They
Europeans and Native Americans interacted through exchanges. Although Indians experienced benefits, settlers had the most advantage. As Europeans and natives traded, new agricultural crops and domestic livestock were introduced to both sides. Because climate and soil was different, the English learned agricultural techniques and new farming technologies from the Indians. Europeans were further, introduced to maize and beans, while bringing with them sugar and bananas. Moreover, cattle and pigs were brought to the Americas, along with horses introduced by the Spanish. As a result of such exchanges, Europeans began to incorporate a new diet. Religion played a major role in the cultural interaction as well. Natives combined Catholicism with
Native Americans were not use to Europeans and lack the ability to fight the European settlers. The Most Native Americans would welcome the settlers with open arms and would seek trade with them. The European settlers would use this friendship to undermined that of the Natives. The Europeans seek to expand and that came at the cost of the Native Americans.
The Europeans relation with the Natives were all different, the Spanish wanted to conquer the Natives, the French liked the Natives and became friend, and the English didn’t care about the Natives and just did whatever with the land. The Natives were not really technologically advance and didn’t follow the religions the Europeans followed, so because of that they were seen as lesser humans and the Europeans didn’t think they deserved the same rights as humans. Also the Europeans didn’t understand the Natives way of life some Europeans did learn to live with the Natives in peace, but eventually diseases and violence killed a lot of Natives. When the old world collided with the new world it was a battle that the old world won and change the new
Throughout history, Europeans have been given credit for the discovery of the New World. For many years, thousands of Indians had been settled in North America long before the European voyages sailed across the Atlantic. When the Europeans came looking for religious freedom, societies and traditions were soon to be changed by the newcomers. The Europeans considered the Indians as savages and uneducated. There were many different tensions between the Indians and Europeans, but natives soon learned that they could benefit from one another.
Many Europeans came to the Americas in search of wealth. The Europeans laid claim to Native land abusing the Native notion that land was owned by no one and belonged to everyone. As seen in Early Spanish-American art the Natives often thought of the Spaniards as Gods and welcomingly
The English and Native Americans were two very different types of people. They had a love hate kind of relationship. The Native Americans taught many techniques to the Europeans. The Europeans should’ve been more appreciative because the Native Americans is what kept most of them alive. The English was victorious because they gained all the Natives belongings, and positions.
When Columbus stumbled upon the New World, he found many inhabitants already living there. He wasn’t in India, and the people weren’t “Indians”, but he did not know that. He was in America and they were Native Americans. Europeans and Native Americans were very different societies for a multitude reasons. The Natives had a larger variety of crops and foodstuffs than the Europeans, but they were short on plants and weapons.
Europeans were much more technologically advanced than the Indian societies due to several different factors. Europeans were more susceptible to germs and diseases due to them traveling, being around a lot of people and working around different animals. Indians were less susceptible to germs and diseases since they tended to stay to themselves in their own tribes and they only killed animals that were in their own region. They did not breed them or keep them around for very long. Europeans were more people oriented versus the Indians who mainly stuck to their own tribe and generally didn’t venture too far outside their comfort zone.
At the beginning of this time period, European settlers were attracted to the Americas in hopes of gaining land and spreading Christianity. Initially, the settlers established a friendly relationship with the natives, relying on them to learn skills like farming, hunting, and fishing, while the Indians traded with the Europeans for advanced technologies like guns and metal tools. However, the cultures of both groups clashed creating conflicts. The Native Americans believed that no one owned land, as
There is no doubt that the Native Americans and The Early Europeans lived two completely different lives. The moment that these two clashed is something that caused a change in the entire country of America. There was neither complete chaos or complete peace. The relationship between Early Europeans and Native Americans was unfair, religiously different, and tense.
The Native Americans’ first encounter with Europeans did not correlate with what was to come in the future. Things went relatively good in the beginning but this is because the Native Americans had no idea what was to come. The new settlers brought many changes to the Americas including social and economic changes.
While both land uses of the Europeans & Native Americans was similar in the fact that they knew that there were set boundaries. By this I mean both obviously treated the land as territory to some extent since the Native Americans had their territory so only their tribe and possibly closely allied tribes could use it. Similarly the Europeans had divided the land into their own territories (i.e. Dutch colonies, English Colonies, ect... ). However, the Europeans had made the land much more private (i.e. private parks, private properties within the lands for governors ect...) While Native Americans had again allowed anyone within their tribe to use the land and their close allies to some extent. Looking at an environmental standpoint, the Europeans
The Native American and European Civilizations interacted a lot when Europeans started colonizing. Although the Natives and Europeans shared the same land their government systems, economy, and technology differed greatly. Factors that contributed to these differences included the king and resources. The King regulated European countries controlling them under the constitution. As a mother country, Britain was able to control all of its colonies; because of this, the crown played a major role in distinguishing European Civilization from the Natives.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus set sail with his fleet of three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the flagship, the Santa Maria. During his voyage he encountered America on an expedition sponsored by King Ferdinand of Spain. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia, where the riches of gold, pearls, and spices awaited. When Christopher Columbus encountered the indigenous of North America the diplomatic negotiations over territory began. Therefore, causing a separation between the Native Americans and the Europeans.
The European colonists and the Native Americans of North America had very different views on nearly everything they encountered in their lives. Living in vastly different cultures lead both groups to have two extremely different outlooks on four main topics; religious beliefs, the environment, social relations, and slavery, differences which the colonists used to their advantage when conquering the peoples of the New World.