FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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the Spanish used horses to quickly travel and raid indigenous towns
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the indigenous Americans used horses in battle to fight the Spanish
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the indigenous Americans used horses to grow more crops at a faster rate
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the indigenous Americans used horses to travel and trade more efficiently
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Detailed explanation-1: -Horses revolutionized Native life and became an integral part of tribal cultures, honored in objects, stories, songs, and ceremonies. Horses changed methods of hunting and warfare, modes of travel, lifestyles, and standards of wealth and prestige.
Detailed explanation-2: -As Old World cattle, pigs, and horses spread across American landscapes, they packed down the soil with their hooves, crushed plants underfoot, gnawed down plants. . . . Result: in place after place, native plant populations were snuffed out.
Detailed explanation-3: -Horses revolutionized the Plains Indian way of life by allowing their owners to hunt, trade, and wage war more effectively, to have bigger tipis and move more possessions, and to transport their old and sick, who might previously have been abandoned.
Detailed explanation-4: -More and better horses meant you could expand your hunting territory, bringing even more wealth to the tribe. Raiding and capturing enemy horses was a key tactic of inter-tribal warfare and was considered an “honorable” rite of passage for a young man trying to earn his place as a warrior.