The Effect Of European Colonization On Native Americans

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Native Americans had inherited the land now called America, and eventually their lives started to change in a blink of an eye, because of curiosity. The fact that Christopher Columbus first discovered them and that is when it all started with the Biological exchange. It also destroyed the Native American due to European Colonization and mostly their greed for the land. The minute the Europeans arrived in the New World they brought destruction with them for they destroyed the home of the Native Americans, (Sonneborn, 1996). The changes of how they destroyed the Native Americans and how it all changed their settlement in the lands that they took from the Native Americans were mainly factors including disease, loss of land, attempts to export

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