Skytold Compare And Contrast

The Iroquois believe that the creation of the world evolved from a world called "SkyWorld". In a world, there were a man and a woman who are married and the women was pregnant. One day the woman was in search of tea from tree bark that was from The Great Tree, and when she was digging she ended up falling through a hole. Where she landed was known as "SkyWorld" and here is where she gave birth to her daughter. When her daughter grew up to reach womanhood, she became impregnated by the West Wind and eventually gave birth to two twin sons, but in turn, she did not survive. The two sons went on to create many things, from animals all the way up to creating man. The brothers were very different so they did not get along very well and were in constant conflict with each other. Being that the world was created this way, set the stage for potential conflict within different cultures. One example of a culture collision would be the Portuguese’s interactions with the West Africans. The Portuguese were in search of slaves from Guinea. They came across many parts and many Guineas people in which they all were ready for a fight.
Christopher Columbus addressed King Ferdinand in a letter he had written about his first few experiences with the native people of Spain. When he arrived …show more content…
Europeans did not agree with the natives’ way of practicing religion because they believed in a single God, and the Europeans looked at it as “Barbaric”. There was no civilization in the native culture, meaning no type of government or laws in place. A lot of what Columbus observed in the Native American’s culture was how they dressed very immodestly. The natives walked around naked for the most part with the exception of some who wore a leaf to cover themselves. Europeans wore agricultural products such as wool and cotton and such. The Natives had little to no importance to the