Major Problems In US to 18 Chapter 1 Review
Although many people believe that the Americas were discovered by Christopher Columbus, there were many people here before his arrival. These people were native Indian tribes such as the Aztecs and the Anasazi. These native people were very civilized. When the Europeans did arrive the interactions between them and the Indians were very difficult. They were very different people. They had different religion, appearances, work roles between men and women, notions of private property, and governmental structures. Eventually the Europeans will lead to the death of all the natives. They brought warfare and disease, which the natives had never dealt with prior to their arrival. In the documents, the Europeans and the Indians speak many different views. In the first document by Christopher Columbus, he tells of the land and people. He describes the land as beautiful and rich. He realizes the value of this land for building and farming. He also says that the land contains great mines of gold. He describes the native's appearances as naked. He also thinks that they are somewhat unintelligent because they do not know the value of trade. They trade not for value but for use. An example tha
In Document 2 the conquest of the Aztecs is discussed. The warfare was brutal. The stabbing, beating and killing of the Indians left the Indians in terror. They had never seen this violence nor had they seen the warfare before. They had no iron or steel like the Spanish had. The Spanish stole all valuables, killed many through famine and murder, and left them without a leader who died of the small pox disease that the Spanish spread. He looks at the good and bad things of the Indians. He thinks that the good things are their physical advantages (tall, erect, and agile), good quality of mind (good soul and well arranged organs), and agreement with one another (no quarrels or disputes). Their bad things about them are they eat their enemies, have no compassion for the sick, and they have trouble telling anything other than a lie. Merrell says that from the three culture came three histories; Europeans were the colonizers, Africans the enslaved and Indians the disposed. In document 5 Father Paul Le Jeune reports on his encounters with the Indians. I found that the documents were very interesting and very easy to read in Chapter 1. The essays I found were very different than that. I didn't understand the writers' point of views or there arguments in the essays. The documents to me were the first hand writing that I often tend to believe a lot more. The most interesting things that I learned in Chapter 1 were the treatment and placement of women in different cultures and the different outlook of trade. The two different cultures, Native American and European, were very different in both aspects. t he uses is that they value a broken useless piece of glass as a jewel. They also trade with him a broken strap for two and a half castellanos of gold. Columbus also does not understand the religion of the Indians. They
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