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Misunderstanding between Europeans and Native Americans

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Misunderstanding between Europeans and Native Americans

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Misunderstanding between Europeans and Native Americans often defined the early years of interaction and trade as each group tried to understand the other. However over time the two groups gained useful knowledge of the others culture and language and started to communicate better.

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Ireland became so reliant on potatoes that it led to the Great Potato Famine

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The Spanish created a caste system that defined the status of the population of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in their Empire

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The spanish created a caste system which defined the status of

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Slavery was was on the biggest parts of trade during the Columbian Exchange. European traders partnered with West African groups who practiced slavery to extract slaves from Africa to the Americas for labor in agriculture and mining

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More organized ways of trade
- Joint stock companies benefited economies in Europe and in the Americas

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The Columbian exchange brought many crops from the Americas that had many benefits in Europe
- Population Growth
- Mineral Wealth
- European change from feudalism to capitalism

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Spanish exploration and conquest of the Americas was accompanied by widespread deadly epidemics which wiped out of the native population making it easier for the Spanish to take over native empires and civilizations.

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Smallpox Epidemics in the New World were more deadly than Black Death

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The Europeans had a plan of finding more sources of wealth and military growth and spreading the religion of Christianity.

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John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

"Touching these savages, there is a thing I cannot omit to remark to you, it is that it appears visibly that God wishes that they yield their place to new peoples."

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Official Contact with the Natives, Europeans, and Africans (Key Concept 1.2)

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Official Contact with the Natives, Europeans, and Africans (Key Concept 1.2)

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The Europeans expanded onto the other hemisphere which created/complicated their social, political, religious, and economical competition in European societies.

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They supported themselves by hunting and gathering, and using the water as part of their resources.

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Some societies created mixed agriculture and hunter gatherer economies that enhanced the creation of development and villages in places such as the
- Northeast
- Mississippi River Valley
- Along the Atlantic seaboard

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Some native societies had to become nomadic because of the aridity in the Great Basin or the grasslands in the western Great Plains because of the lack of basic resources.

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Maize coming from what we now call present day mexico has created
- Economic development
- New settlement
- Advanced irrigation
- Social diversification

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Native Societies and their Adaptations (Key Concept 1.1)

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Native Societies and their Adaptations (Key Concept 1.1)

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The more the Native Americans moved across the North American plains, the more they learned and created their own societies and transforming their environments.