LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The Europeans destroyed much of what theycould find as a symbol of their domination .
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Native Americans destroyed them to keep them away from the Europeans.
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Native Americans did not have cultural artifacts worth preserving.
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The artifacts were destroyed in a massive earthquake.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Eurasian diseases such as influenza, pneumonic plagues, and smallpox, in combination with conflict, forced removal, enslavement, imprisonment, and outright warfare with European newcomers reduced populations and disrupted traditional societies.
Detailed explanation-2: -While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare.
Detailed explanation-3: -European colonization of North America had a devastating effect on the native population. Within a short period of time their way of life was changed forever. The changes were caused by a number of factors, including loss of land, disease, enforced laws which violated their culture and much more.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first lasting contact between indigenous Americans and Europeans came as Arawak, Taino, and Lucayan peoples encountered the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and his Spanish ships.