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Difference Between German And Indians

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The Indians and the German speakers during the colonial era had very different lifestyles before their introduction by 1682. The Indians started as a communal system of living with freedom to use the land while the German speakers were much more oppressed, governed by the church and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. When it came time for the German speakers to migrate to the New World, the way they and the Indians interacted was based on not only their respective lifestyles, but also by various interactions in the New World. The Indians’ opinion on these German immigrants was influenced not only by how they acted towards one another, but also by how the earlier colonists acted towards them. The German speakers’ opinions on the Indians were based mostly on Penn’s advertising of the New Land. The goal of this essay is to explain the two groups’ histories on a social, …show more content…

The Indians were based on sustainability and success for all members of its circle, whereas the German speakers were more centralized on surviving as an individual or a family. The German speakers had a clear imbalance of power in their homeland while the Indians were roughly equal to each other. Indians relied heavily on trade, especially when the early colonists arrived while the Germans worked for currency. Finally, the Indians were more spiritual and were free to practice their religions while the same could not be said for all German speakers. Still, while different, there are some clear similarities between them. Both were dependent on farming and both had some religious tie. These similarities allowed the Indians and German speakers to act in their own interests. The Indians had another group of people to trade with to extend their power by giving, while the German speakers could move to a land with less political oppression and cheap plentiful land to sustain

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