FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
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They were too expensive.
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Europeans had not yet arrived in N. America.
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They hadn’t been invented yet.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Guns came west with the French and English from the Great Lakes and farther east, while horses came north from Spanish territories in today’s Southwest. The Assiniboine traded guns to the Mandan as early as 1738, by which time nomadic tribes from the south possessed horses.
Detailed explanation-2: -The New World was marked by diversity and contrast. By the time Europeans were poised to cross the Atlantic, Native Americans spoke hundreds of languages and lived in keeping with the hemisphere’s many climates. Some lived in cities, others in small bands. Some migrated seasonally, others settled permanently.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the colonial period, Native Americans had a complicated relationship with European settlers. They resisted the efforts of the Europeans to gain more of their land and control through both warfare and diplomacy.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1492 there was no country known as India. Instead that country was called Hindustan.