The Native Americans and Euro-Americans settlers were more different than similar from one another. THESIS: Both the Native Americans and Euro-Americans have very different lifestyles, cultures, and dissimilar perspectives. Euro-Americans saw themselves as conquers of the civilized world and saw the Native Americans as “savages”. Both Euro-Americans and Native Americans had a different theory about the land; it created problems between the two.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, absolutism was at the height of its popularity. Monarchs ruled over their countries with total authority. They claimed their spots on the throne by divine right and kept their power by limiting the nobilities’ influence. Spain was ruled by their own monarch, King Philip II. Under his rule, Spain became one of the richest nations in Europe.
The Enlightenment focused on the challenging the role of religion and divine right. The Great Awakening was responsible in unifying colonies and bringing about the acceptance of religious tolerance. Both of these events were very impactful for the people living in British North American colonies. Enlightenment beginning in Europe and the Great Awakening beginning in colonies indirectly affected the whole world. This is how both events affected life in British North American.
As the song goes, "In 1492,in fourteen ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World, the Native Americans knew it as their home. Soon after Columbus reported back to let all of Europe know that he successfully found land, European settlers quickly followed. Every tribe was one of it 's kind, yet their cultures shared the importance of their religious practices, beliefs, and values . The Native Americans were generally very peaceful people, that is, until the Europeans invaded their land and forced them to fight back.
At the arrival of the Europeans to North America, a large variety of Native Americans lived within the borders of North America. There were thousands of different tribes, all of which were separated into different regions. All tribes had their own religious beliefs, political systems, and languages. The only consistent things between each tribe was that their identities relied on their own tribes, not one tribe though of itself united with another, and they all wanted to use white people as a way to better their standings with other tribes.
In the 1500s, England experienced a number of different rulers. Queen ELizabeth I was one ruler that rose above the rest. She reigned England from 1558 to 1603. The queen was involved in a number of wars, and she was involved in her community. She cared for her people, and she succeeded for them.
The 16-18th Century in Europe was a period of much religious turmoil. Differences in religion and rule led to much violent political and religious wars and ultimately resulted in a different society. The Spanish Armada was an attempted take over of England by the Spanish navy. England, though, was more advanced technologically and blasted the Spanish into multiple hurricanes. This resulted in a shift in naval tatics and shifted England into power.
Diversity between the Native American and European World Before 1650 Stephania Reid WOH 1012 19/07/2016 Professor Young Introduction This paper specifically focuses on the comparison and contrast of the culture of Europeans and Native Americans. The inferred question is how these regions way of life should be understood as a human experience. Additionally, the question refers to the diversity of human cultures, norms and to their values, as well as to religions and source of livelihood. Diversity can also be seen where their living conditions transform into different cultural expressions that become our history.
However, Kings, while officially the heads of state, were of little more affluence than the average noble. The West states, “During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, effective government was local government, and kings could seldom interfere in the affairs of towns and regions... kings struggled to co-opt these aristocrats or force them to submit” (Levack, Muir, Veldman 387). Meanwhile, the people of The Renaissance saw a rise in the monarchy’s power. A notable example of this was the marriage of the monarchs of separate kingdoms in modern Spain, Isabella, Queen of Castile, and King Ferdinand, King of Aragon.
Elizabeth I came to power in England after the death of her two siblings, Edward VI and Mary I. She was the last monarch of the Tudor Dynasty, the ruling monarchy since the War of Roses. At the time of her rule, the Renaissance was in full swing; her kingdom was one of the most powerful in terms of politics, art, and commerce at the time. The period was a time of individualism and religious reform, most often done by men rather than women. Elizabeth I ruled during a time where men were considered superior and more powerful in both the government and church.
Although the Native Americans are timid and peaceful people, would history be different if the great explorers did find their lands? The Europeans have been the causes between the Native Americans and the explorers. The explorers came and explored the Native lands and they had to deal with equality, religious beliefs, and being overpowered. If the Explorers didn’t change the living styles and made the Natives move would there even be a war? Are the real savages Native Americans or the European?
Upon the first colonial establishments, the Europeans viewed Native Americans as uncultured, unintelligent, and uncivilized. The first colonizers found themselves ultimately superior to the perceived rudimentary cultural and societal customs that were observed. Native Americans viewed Europeans as a strictly one sided cultural mass enforcement foreign establishment, stopping at nothing to enforce their perceived superiority in all forms of cultural and societal aspects. Differences in land use, gender roles, and societal history added to the wedging and hostility between the Native Americans and European people. Upon the European's first impression of Native American culture, the first notable aspect of their "species" and society was their promising outlook as potential slave laborers.
The emerging of monarchies of Europe shared certain features, but also differed in significant ways. This was the time where the rulers throughout Europe came together with respective nations and creating a centralized government. This brought great things for Europe as a whole such as the economical growth that would come out of this emergence. There were many more achievements that came out of these monarchies coming together like: creating a efficient systems of taxation, creating a loyal army to the monarchy, dealing with trade both internally and externally, and etc. There were three main countries who had an impact on the emergence of monarchies: England, France, and Iberia.
During initial contact the differences between the Indians and Europeans is what caused much of the trouble that came with the Columbus discovering the "New World". Such as language barriers and overall cultural differences. When Columbus landed in the Caribbean the Europeans felt superior to the natives they met on this island, because they wore cloth and had more advanced technology such as their weaponry. This led Columbus to believe it would be easy to take land from the Natives and in a sense it was, as the Indians were not prepared for what the Europeans brought with them such as diseases that wiped out 90% of the Indians population. Future contact policies should be based on gathering information before taking action, for example being
European settlement in the New World had a number of impacts that opposed what the Native Americans wanted. On the one hand, Europeans see it as an incontestable civilizing action on the other; however, it led to the disappearance of important societies, or the change in the way of life of those groups. European conquerors brought not only goods to trade with aboriginal tribes in America; they also caused the destruction of some of those societies. The Natives could not fight against the European colonization, which created vast political changes and cultural, causing their societies to succumb to the Europeans. The aim of this research is to point out the negative impacts the European explorations had, in the aboriginal societies that lived in the Americas.
