Native American Settlement in North America
About ten thousand years before Columbus arrived to the Americas, the Native Americans trekked across the Bering strait, a vast land bridge between modern day Russia and Alaska. Towards the end of the last Ice Age, the natives followed their prey, which lead them into the New World. Native Americans adapted and transformed to the new American lands, but when the Europeans finally arrived in the Americas, they influenced the Native American settlements greatly. One scope that influenced the Native Americans settlements was the trade of wealth and goods among the groups, which is known as economical factors.
Since the Europeans arrived around 1492, the original inhabitants of North America seemed to be foreign to them so, the Europeans would force labor upon the natives. They had to gather raw materials like corn and mine natural resources such as gold and other gemstones for many European colonists involved in the Incommedian system. This use of labor was similar to the treatment of african slaves and it affected many Native American tribes. However the Europeans benefited from the harsh system, they would sell goods to the Mother country and make profit, which was their motive. This system was referred …show more content…
The term gold describes the importance of wealth to the Europeas. They desired resources and land, and were constantly battling between each other for it. The invasion of Europeans took land and hunting grounds away from the natives, and resources such as lumber, food, gold, etc. This pushed the natives towards the west coast of America and the tribes that fought against them only gained time temporarily. The Europeans claimed property and natural resources as their own, while the Native Americans Lost theirs. This treatment discriminated the tribes, and the natives lost their homeland due to European greed however they also
About ten thousand years before Columbus arrived to the Americas, the Native Americans trekked across the Bering strait, a vast land bridge between modern day Russia and Alaska. Towards the end of the last Ice Age, the natives followed their prey, which lead them into the New World. Native Americans adapted and transformed to the new American lands, but when the Europeans finally arrived in the Americas, they influenced the Native American settlements greatly. One scope that influenced the Native Americans settlements was the trade of wealth and goods among the groups, which is known as economical factors.
Since the Europeans arrived around 1492, the original inhabitants of North America seemed to be foreign to them so, the Europeans would force labor upon the natives. They had to gather raw materials like corn and mine natural resources such as gold and other gemstones for many European colonists involved in the Incommedian system. This use of labor was similar to the treatment of african slaves and it affected many Native American tribes. However the Europeans benefited from the harsh system, they would sell goods to the Mother country and make profit, which was their motive. This system was referred …show more content…
The term gold describes the importance of wealth to the Europeas. They desired resources and land, and were constantly battling between each other for it. The invasion of Europeans took land and hunting grounds away from the natives, and resources such as lumber, food, gold, etc. This pushed the natives towards the west coast of America and the tribes that fought against them only gained time temporarily. The Europeans claimed property and natural resources as their own, while the Native Americans Lost theirs. This treatment discriminated the tribes, and the natives lost their homeland due to European greed however they also