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Compare And Contrast The European Settlement Of America And Russia

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In the 16th and 17th century the discovery of the western coast America was possibly one of the most historic moments in history, although the much lesser known discovery of the north-eastern Hemisphere of America by the Russians also had quite an impact on the land. When Europeans first came to America they had encountered American natives and many different plants and animals, but what they had brought with them possibly had more effect than what they had learned from America. Russia and Europe both came to America and very similar intentions. Europe came looking for trade routes, ended up farming like crazy. Russia had come looking for furred mammals and possible colonialization, due to overhunting in Siberia. Europe and Russia had very similar colonialization in their respective parts of North America. Just like Europe had developed the triangle trade, Russia had developed the Maritime trade, which was coined by historians to distinguish that it was a coastal ship based trade. The Maritime trade was originally known as the North-West coast trade, consisting of Russians either buying otter and other furs from the Alaskan natives or killing for them and then selling to china …show more content…

The Europeans brought mostly different forms of Protestantism to the Natives and the Russians brought Russian Orthodoxy to the natives. From the 1600s European Catholic and Protestant denominations sent missionaries to transform the tribes to Christianity. A few of these conversions passed off through government and Christian church cooperative efforts that forcibly eliminated Native American children from their families right into a Christian/state government-operated method of Yankee Indian boarding colleges (aka The Residential faculties) where Native youngsters have been taught European Christian beliefs, the values of mainstream white tradition, and the English

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