...Before the arrival of the Europeans, The Natives lived in harmony with nature and each other in peaceful communities. When the English explorers arrived, they had different intentions and values than the Native Americans. Their differences, motives and values lead to many clashes as the decades passed by. The Native Americans at first humbly welcomed the English explorers up until the seventeenth century. Little did they the Natives know, their welcoming would become their undoing. During around the fifteenth century, the English explorers arrived on the northeastern shores of America and were welcomed by the Native American tribes into their villages. Both parties saw this as a good opportunity to trade and exchange goods. The Natives generously provided the English explorers with resources, supplies and skills to use to...
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...materials, the explorers mean devils and despoilers in the South America. In the fourteenth century, many people tried to become explorers to find the new countries. However, most people focus on resource, money, slaves, lands, and honor from their own country instead of following their hoping or wishing to explore the new countries. Based on these explorers’ hoping, explorers become crazier than they were in their town. De Las Cases believes that soldiers and explorers kill and abuse the native speakers in South America. However, from the depiction of De Vaca and Underhill, they have different thought about the treatment to native speakers. The different depiction expresses that the attitudes from Europe explorers different thought to the native people. From De Las Cases’...
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...Thomas Brattle critiqued the puritans for these trials. Brattle believed that accepting such evidence is like feeding into the devil. He also gave his argument without stating that monsters are not real. This treatment is seen a lot throughout history towards those who are minorities. I found the description of africans very vulgar and it fed into stereotypes that are even seen sometimes today. I can see where the European explorers were coming from, when you stumble upon something you’re not used to seeing it can be scary. You become quick to assume negative things, it’s just a natural instinct of ours, and we as humans are quick to judge. The Europeans used the natives sexuality against them because of their ape like features, and their sexual proclivities. This affected the mind of the explorers and their view on the Native people. This led to the Native people being stuffed into holds and ships to be sold into slavery for the rest of their lives. The sexual acts they were participating in were seen as unholy which is another reason I believe they were seen as the devil,which led to the the negative propaganda of the...
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...Exploration. This period of discovery lasted from about 1418 to 1620. During this time, European explorers made many daring voyages that changed world history. A major reason for these voyages was the desire to find sea routes to east Asia, which Europeans called the Indies. When Christopher Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean, he was looking for such a route. Instead, he landed in the Americas. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies. In time, Europeans would realize that he had found what they called the ”New World.” European nations soon rushed to claim lands in the Americas for themselves. Early explorers often suffered terrible hardships. In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan set out with three ships to cross the Pacific Ocean from South America. He had guessed, correctly, that the Indies lay on the other side of the Pacific. But Magellan had no idea how vast the ocean really was. He thought his crew would be sailing for a few weeks at most. Instead, the crossing took three months. While the ships were still at sea, the crew ran out of food. One sailor wrote about this terrible time. “We ate biscuit… swarming with worms…. We drank yellow water that had been putrid [rotten] for days... and often we ate sawdust from boards.” Why did explorers brave such dangers? In this reading, you will discover some of the reasons for the Age of Exploration. Then you will learn about the voyages of explorers from Portugal, Spain, and other European countries. You will also learn about the impact...
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...understand the impact of exploration on European and native societies. 2. TWL know the roles of key individuals and their impact during exploration. 3. TLW understand the location of European settlements in the New World. 4. TLW apply reading comprehension strategies to social studies. Skills: 1. TLW demonstrate map skills. 2. TLW demonstrate collaboration skills. 3. TLW demonstrate reading skills. 4. TLW demonstrate comprehension skills. 5. TLW demonstrate writing skills. 3. Applicable Tennessee Standards: * Explain the cultures of the Western Hemisphere’s native peoples prior to European contact. * Pre-Colonial Native American groups. * Determine how various groups resolve conflict. * Identify Native American groups in Tennessee and the Western Hemisphere before European expansion. * Reasons for European exploration and settlement. * Understand how to use maps, globes, and other geographic representations, tools, and techniques to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. * Identify routes of explorers of the Americas. * Identify cultural groups who inhabited North America in the 17th century. * Reasons settlements are founded on major river systems. * Read and interpret facts from a historical passage about an early American Spanish mission. * Describe the immediate and long-term impact of Columbus’s voyages on native populations and on colonization in the Americas...
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...perspectives of the foundation of the United States. While Schweikart and Allen focus on the noble intentions of European explorers, progress, and the general selflessness of the founding fathers, Zinn tells of a country based on the destruction of the native people, the forced labor of thousands of slaves, and the oppression of the lower class. Each version show the past differently, and can either show an event as legendary and proud, or shameful and horrible. In A Patriot’s History of the United States, Schweikart/Allen cover Christopher Columbus and other explorers in a very positive...
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...Cabeza de Vaca, author of "La Relacion", his crew mates, The governer, Capains Pantoja, Penalosa, Tellez, and the sailing master are stranded in boats lost at sea. They are all close to death, malnourished, and dehydrated. It's almost night fall and they are all struggling to get their boats to a shore. Cabeza de Vaca and the other Christian explorers are stranded, tired, and close to death. The governer told Cabeza de Vaca to do what was best to save his own life. Finally they reach land November 6th. They set up a fire and began to eat rationed corn and began to revive. Cabeza de Vaca is still hopeful and faithful through these early inccidents. He remains to fight for survival and act as a leader to his crew and refuses to quit. Cabeza...
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...of preparation on the settler's part, the indigenous people took it upon themselves to aid the newcomers through many setbacks. Even with their help, early Native Americans were too trusting of the European settlers and were cheated out of their own valuable possessions, land and way of life. America was a land just waiting to be claimed and taken. This was the belief at the forefront of every explorer that set foot and planted the flag of their homeland into the soil. Captain Verrazzano of France, was one such explorer who wrote the letter "Verrazzano's Voyage: 1524" found in The American Tradition in Literature by George and Barbara Perkins. With details of the land and the native people he encountered, it is...
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...Christopher Columbus is one of the most widely renowned “explorers” throughout the world. For nearly 80 years, he has been celebrated through a holiday dedicated to him known as Christopher Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus was the first to set sail to the west across the Atlantic Ocean in order to find a new trade route to India. However, instead of finding the lands that he set out for, he discovered the already inhabited New World; with this discovery he brought death, disease, and destruction to the innocent natives that lived there. The natives were decimated and enslaved for gold, land, and workers by a man celebrated as a hero in society today for a failed exploration mission: Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus was a man only interested in profit and used almost any means to get it. They treated the Indians as though they were “excrement on the public squares... thus depriving them of their lives and souls” (Document F). The lands were so rich and the natives so meek and patient that it was easy for Christopher Columbus to take advantage of them for his own selfish greed. Like the settlers, Columbus was there for one reason only:...
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...overseas journeys and found what was known as the “New World.” Many explorers such as Christopher Columbus found native people in the “New World.” Despite the differences from Europeans, the natives flourished in their own way; however, that all changed when Europeans flooded the land. The exploration and colonization on the native peoples in the fifteenth century by explorers such as Columbus and Cortés killed much of the population due to foreign...
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...Global Exploration 1500-1700 Trident University Module –Case 1 The fifteenth century was a time of great advances, so much so that this period is called the Age of Discovery. The European sailors and ships left the coastal waters of the lands they knew to embark upon adventures in the unknown “green sea of darkness”. It began with the Portuguese and was soon followed by British, French, and Dutch ships who eventually set out to explore what became known as the “New World”. There were many reasons that motivated these cultures to set out into the unknown but the most compelling reasons included gold, religion and the drive to explore and expand territory. The first motive was wealth. Although Genghis Khan was best known for his bloody legacy, he had done wonders to improve the trade across Eurasia. He provided the security for travelers to cross what is now known as the Silk Road. This trade route extended over 5000 miles on land and sea with interconnected trade routes that connected with Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. The world had developed a taste for the spices and silks that had been brought back by the crusaders, and now men saw this as an opportunity to make their fortune. They traveled the Silk Road to bring back to the items that were in great demand and brought a large profit (Rossabi, n.d.). However, the Mongol empire eventually fell. China became Buddhist and a rising Islamic threat shut down travel on the Silk Road. Trade was restricted...
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...During the 14th through the 16th centuries, European explorers expanded their empire by finding new land they called the New World. Europeans wanted to find gold amongst other things in order to gain wealth. The Native Americans living in the New World were treated like slaves by the Europeans. This eventually led to the decline of Native American culture. Europeans explored the new world because they were in search of gold in order to gain wealth. “…made gold their ultimate aim, seeking to load themselves with riches in the shortest time.” (Document #1) Also, Europeans explored to find a northwest passage to use as a shorter route to Asia. When the land route from Asia to Europe was cut off by the Turkish Empire….Several European rulers...
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...Themes of Early American Literature Early American literature does a tremendous job of revealing the exact conditions and challenges that were faced by the explorers and later by the colonists of the New World. From early shipwrecks to the later years of small colonies barely surviving through dreadful winters, the literary works of the time period focus on some very recognizable themes. The theme of any given work – being simply the unifying subject or idea – is a very important element of any piece of writing. As one reviews some of this early literature, it becomes obvious that several themes appear repeatedly, and it is these subjects that were clearly very common among people from all over the New World. While a number of themes can be found in early American literature, the only dominant and recurring themes are exploration, hardship, and religion. It is these central ideas around which all early American writing is based. The first prominent theme that appeared in the literature of Christopher Columbus and the many great explorers that followed in his footsteps was that of exploration. With the mission to sail West across the Atlantic Ocean and report back with their findings, these explorers wrote down all of their noteworthy experiences in journals and narratives. So, it is only natural that the theme of exploration can be found in many of these literary works. For example, in Christopher Columbus’ Report of the First Voyage, he details the discovery of...
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...After the discovery of the New World, many European countries sought to explore the lands. The countries of Spain and England wanted to set foot in North America. While they all had their own reasons, the three main reasons for their exploration were economic, religious, and for individual glory. When Christopher Columbus sailed for Spain in 1492, his original goal was to find riches in Eastern Asia. Throughout the rest of the European Exploration, this remained a primary goal of the explorers. When the New World was discovered, many explorers believed that it was just a small body of land that sat between Europe and East Asia. Because of this, many explorers, such as John Cabot, still attempted to find routes to the West Indies. John Cabot...
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...that Clark entered the militia at the age of nineteen then entered the U.S. Military. Lewis was a captain in the military and served in a number of campaigns against native Americans. Next they both became leaders of the expedition across the West of North America. President Jefferson was planning this expedition well before he made the Louisiana purchase. After he made the purchase he wanted to know exactly what he had bought. Therefore he had Lewis, Clark and thirty-one others go on this expedition. President Jefferson was hoping they would find a northwest passage for a trade route. However they did not find one instead they provided valuable information about the west and that influenced people to move....
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