The first humans in America arrived trough the Bering Strait. The Bering Strait was an all-ice bridge which formed between Alaska and Siberia approximately 10,000 years ago. Scientist called those people “Native Americans”. The Native Americans developed their own living and surviving techniques according to the climate and the resources they had near them. The development of agriculture began 3,000 years B.C. in Central Mexico with the Indian corn or Maiz, and the semi-nomadic hunter societies highly increased. However, when the Native American groups met the Spanish, French and English explorers and colonists, everything they used to know changed. Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to reach the Americas. He gave the Native Americans
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They developed knowledge on the diverse seasons, in other words, they learned when to hunt, when to fish, and how to do it. European hunters learned to use animal skins as camouflage and whistles and calls to attract the prey. In fact, European society rapidly changed into hunters and fishers and became less dependent on agriculture. Europeans used agriculture mainly on the tobacco fields. John Rolfe, imported seeds form the Caribbean to began a large tobacco business which rapidly developed in Virginia. Tobacco became popular among European colonists and benefited the first Virginia families. The gender roles extremely differed between the Europeans and the Indians. In the Indian society, women had freedom and independent lives. They used to have power and responsibility. European women were more likely to hard work. They used to be in the agriculture fields picking up seeds, berries, and fruits. They do not have the same freedom over their choice of mate as the Indian women. Indian women had the freedom to marriage whoever they wanted. Indian women could divorce, while European women could not. However, both Indian men and women were respected for doing their jobs
They developed knowledge on the diverse seasons, in other words, they learned when to hunt, when to fish, and how to do it. European hunters learned to use animal skins as camouflage and whistles and calls to attract the prey. In fact, European society rapidly changed into hunters and fishers and became less dependent on agriculture. Europeans used agriculture mainly on the tobacco fields. John Rolfe, imported seeds form the Caribbean to began a large tobacco business which rapidly developed in Virginia. Tobacco became popular among European colonists and benefited the first Virginia families. The gender roles extremely differed between the Europeans and the Indians. In the Indian society, women had freedom and independent lives. They used to have power and responsibility. European women were more likely to hard work. They used to be in the agriculture fields picking up seeds, berries, and fruits. They do not have the same freedom over their choice of mate as the Indian women. Indian women had the freedom to marriage whoever they wanted. Indian women could divorce, while European women could not. However, both Indian men and women were respected for doing their jobs