Different groups in the new world
Native Americans:
Native Americans are the first people who inhabited North America. They were able to adapt to regional environments and developed larger communities throughout the archaic period (8,000 B.C.E.–1500 B.C.E.). Agriculture had a great effect among Native American peoples, but not all of them adopted it because the environment often led natives to resist agriculture and rely on hunting, gathering and fishing. They created a complex networks of trade which sometimes extended over great distances and that encouraged concentrations of political powers.
Slaves:
The majority of Africans who arrived to the Americas after 1492 were slaves, transported by Europeans willing to exploit their labor from West Africa regions. They were skilled artisans especially regarding metalworking but Western African were farmers were men and women perform different roles. Families were organized into clans, primarily patrilineal, that stressed expanded family links. Chronic under population in many parts of West Africa had led to the increase of slavery to sustain control over limited and valuable laborers. Africans caught in the web of the transatlantic slave trade; they have been removed from a familiar landscape, hard-pressed to sustain their beliefs and cultural …show more content…
France and Netherlands were interested in commerce; France maintained a friendly relationships with Indian peoples. English colonization was more haphazard process, characterized by colonial charters and largely independent colonial development granted by the king. The existence of French, Dutch, and English colonies not only ended Spain’s monopoly of settlement in North America but strongly challenged the Indians’ hold on the
Native Americans:
Native Americans are the first people who inhabited North America. They were able to adapt to regional environments and developed larger communities throughout the archaic period (8,000 B.C.E.–1500 B.C.E.). Agriculture had a great effect among Native American peoples, but not all of them adopted it because the environment often led natives to resist agriculture and rely on hunting, gathering and fishing. They created a complex networks of trade which sometimes extended over great distances and that encouraged concentrations of political powers.
Slaves:
The majority of Africans who arrived to the Americas after 1492 were slaves, transported by Europeans willing to exploit their labor from West Africa regions. They were skilled artisans especially regarding metalworking but Western African were farmers were men and women perform different roles. Families were organized into clans, primarily patrilineal, that stressed expanded family links. Chronic under population in many parts of West Africa had led to the increase of slavery to sustain control over limited and valuable laborers. Africans caught in the web of the transatlantic slave trade; they have been removed from a familiar landscape, hard-pressed to sustain their beliefs and cultural …show more content…
France and Netherlands were interested in commerce; France maintained a friendly relationships with Indian peoples. English colonization was more haphazard process, characterized by colonial charters and largely independent colonial development granted by the king. The existence of French, Dutch, and English colonies not only ended Spain’s monopoly of settlement in North America but strongly challenged the Indians’ hold on the