Compare And Contrast The English Arrival Of The American Colonies

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The English arrived. They weren 't prepared for the European colonies. Europeans brought with them diseases and stange animals. The Native 's had not built immunities to the diseases and whole cultures were whiped out. The elders were killed and with them the oral spoken traditions and folklore. Other Indians also had no immunities to the diseases. There were many different Native tribes. New cultures were started with different folklore and stories. Traditions even changed. The Europeans brought horses, which helped the Indians migrate. Europeans had stolen, found, or bought the horses from Spanish invaders. Many Indians moved into new climates, such as the Sioux, who had been forest dwellers, moved out onto open plains when the

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