Discuss The Diffusion Theory Of Native Americans

Before the European conquest of the Americas, the Native Americans used to be the inhabitants of the land. Native Americans as we all know have a very interesting history, from their origins to their culture, religion, and traditions. There are two major hypothetical origins of the Native Americans consisting of the Diffusion Theory and the Pangaea Theory, although no one really knows where they came from.
The first hypothetical theory is the Diffusion Theory. The Diffusion Theory, or migration, states that Native Americans actually traveled from other parts of the world. This theory consists of two ideas. The first one is that Native Americans are in fact Mongolian settlers that traveled all the way from Asia to North America through the

This idea of the Bering Strait is the most accepted idea by people also making the Diffusion Theory widely accepted. The second idea of the Diffusion Theory is Pre-Columbian Navigation. This idea states that people from China, India, and Egypt came to America through navigation centuries before Columbus and came in contact with the people in Southern Mexico and Central America. This Pre-Columbian Navigation is widely supported with carving and statues found in those areas of rulers of the Eastern part of the world. A good example of this would be the sixteen feet tall stelas found in Copan (Honduras) that resemble Eastern Hemisphere rulers of the time, and the pyramids that were built in the southern part of Mexico and

This is where the rise of civilizations takes place. Natives in this era are no longer nomads, like in the Stone Age, but they are now settling and creating their own civilizations. This Agricultural Age gave birth to highly developed civilization. With natives now forming permanent civilizations, their survival will now depend a lot on agriculture. The main type of agriculture was corn-based agriculture, which is the farming of corn-based food, but natives, from Canada and all of America would also plant beans and squash. Natives from North America used a technique called slash and burn to clear land for the use of agriculture. The religion of that time continued to be Nature Mysticism, worshiping of nature, but also adopted Ancestor Cult, which is the worshiping of deceased ancestors. Their Nature Mysticism belief was that the four nature elements (air, water, fire, and soil) created everything that exists and therefore believed for natural forces to be Gods and Goddesses. Shamans became the kings and queens, or leaders, of the civilizations and were seen as religious figures (theocracy). With natives becoming more “civilized” their knowledge became more advanced by coming up with what we now know as astronomy and mathematics. Astronomy is the science of celestial bodies and was used by natives to know the cycles of time and its effects, and mathematics came as a result of astronomy in a civilization from