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. A glance at the culture and environment of the European and Native American World The colonial south of the Natives was a mixture of different cultures and people. Like natives in another place in North America, those in the South practiced varying their diets, shifting seasonal subsistence, and food gathering practices to correspond to the changing seasons. When spring approached, a season which produced massive runs of shad, alewives (Atlantic fish) and herring from the ocean into local rivers, Indians who lived in Florida and along the coastal plain of Atlantic depended on fish were taken with hooks, nets, lines, and spears. In seasons of autumn and winter— notably …show more content…
When bad weather led to low yields, natives had to rely more on wild plants, animals, and their rudimentary lifestyle. In regions of rigorous agriculture, such as along the river fence of the piedmont and hills, Indian farmers occasionally depleted soils and had to move their villages to more apt lands. By the time the Europeans arrived in the South, old grounds, forests subjected to periodic burns and regional depletion in wild animal population all verified to the native presence. In the context of these two culture and belief system, their diversity converged to necessitate