LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Europeans and Native Americans worked together to fulfill their needs.
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Native Americans had many problems even before the arrival of Europeans
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The arrival of Europeans had a negative impact on the lives of Native Americans.
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Native Americans had a negative impact on early European settlers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians.
Detailed explanation-2: -Diseases such as treponemiasis and tuberculosis were already present in the New World, along with diseases such as tularemia, giardia, rabies, amebic dysentery, hepatitis, herpes, pertussis, and poliomyelitis, although the prevalence of almost all of these was probably low in any given group.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Native Americans resented and resisted the colonists’ attempts to change them. Their refusal to conform to European culture angered the colonists and hostilities soon broke out between the two groups.
Detailed explanation-4: -Following Christopher Columbus’ arrival in North America in 1492, violence and disease killed 90% of the indigenous population-nearly 55 million people-according to a study published this year.