LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The Native Americans were unwilling to work with the European settlers.
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The presence of Europeans in North America had a significant impact on Native Americans.
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The Europeans and Native Americans combined their resources to establish a new civilization by working together.
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The European settlers interacted with Native Americans because they wanted to settle new land
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Detailed explanation-1: -The opportunity to make money was one of the primary motivators for the colonization of the New World. The Virginia Company of London established the Jamestown colony to make a profit for its investors. Europe’s period of exploration and colonization was fueled largely by necessity.
Detailed explanation-2: -All Indians lived in organized societies with political structures, moral codes, and religious beliefs. All had adapted to the particular environments in which they lived. The idea of private land ownership was foreign; land was held communally and worked collectively.
Detailed explanation-3: -The spread of European agricultural techniques led to deforestation in some regions of the Americas. The spread of Eurasian grazing animals, such as cattle and sheep, led to overgrazing in some regions.
Detailed explanation-4: -Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by a Spanish soldier named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in St. Augustine, Florida.