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Black Death Dbq

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By the end of the 1400s, many European ships left Europe to explore the world. This exploration could have been initiated by various events that occurred previously. Starting with the first event, the Black Death, in the 1300s, which caused the decline of the feudal system and lead to the rise of the Renaissance era, a period of time when people were craving for more knowledge in topics such as philosophy, anatomy, geography, etc. It was throughout this Renaissance period and because of new inventions such as the printing press that could have caused people to want to explore and expand their knowledge about the geography of the earth. But also, it could have been, “[…] the idea of getting richer that originally got the European’s interest …show more content…

The Dutch and other European people living in New Amsterdam wanted to convert Native Americans such as the Lenni Lenape, to Christianity. Also, what caused the relationship between this tribe and the Dutch to be ruin was in, “February 25, 1643 became a turning point in the amount of trust encumbered in the colonists when Dutch soldiers invaded the Lenni Lenape village and killed hundreds of men, women, and children”(Relationship With Native Americans). But this did not only ruin the relationship with the Dutch but with any people who tried to settled since, “After this incident, the Lenni Lenape lost all respect for the colonists and did not interact kindly with them”(“Relationship With Native …show more content…

“Owning land was extremely important to the European settlers … meant that a person had great wealth and political power”(VOA). On the other side, the native population, “believed that no one could own land … that anyone could use it … [and that if one] wanted to live on a piece of land and grow crops [one] could do so”(VOA). At the beginning when there were not that many colonizers the Native tribes were helping these Europeans and would share the land with them, but as tribes such as the Lenni Lenape began to see that more people were coming from another part of the world and started to take their lands, cut the trees and build roads and houses, the native tribes stated to see the true intentions of these

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