How were the Natives different from one other
Different environments shaped their agriculture, resource use, and social structure.
What did Europeans do to natives (changes)
Social, political and cultural change
Columbian exchange
1492 trade of resource, innovation, cattle
Maize
Cause social diversity because maize change cultural, resource and econ development and advancements
Great plain and basin
Mobile lifestyle , hunt and gather,
NW
Hunting and gathering and fishing
NE
Mixed agriculture and hunt and gathering
Why exploration in America
GGG and crusades ( want to establish trade routes E - but went W instead )
Joint stock Company
People pay for a share which helps colonization and exploitation
Encomienda system
Slavery of natives ( first established for convert and labor )
Caste system
Pure Spanish ( born in Spain )
Spanish ( born by Spanish parents)
½ Spanish ( Spanish with natives )
½ Spanish ( Spanish with African )
Pure native or African or half
Spanish and natives differ because
Divergent world views ; gender roles, family , religion, land use , power
European and native relations
Traded and sought to make sense of one other and overtime adopted useful aspects of each other. Then euro got greedy and encroached on the natives land ( demand for labor increased ) = natives defending their sovereignty and freedom by diplomatic negotiations and military resistance