FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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improved diet
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it had no effect
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made moving and hunting easier
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provided them with another food source
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Detailed explanation-1: -“A favorite hunting horse could be trained to ride right into the stampeding buffalo herd.” For the Plains Indians, the newfound speed and efficiency of hunting on horseback provided an abundance of high-quality meat, hides for tipis and clothing, and rawhide for shields and boxes.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-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.