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The Indian's Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans -…
The Indian's Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans
According to the author, a lot of people give more importance to American history after Columbus rather than before Columbus.
"Historians recognize that Europeans arrived, not in a virgin land, but in one that was teeming with several million people."
There was a large population in America who had their own societies and way of trade before the Europeans.
Do we know enough about the Indians prior to Columbus?
WHAT WERE INDIANS LIKE BEFORE?
There was a large population of Indians with divers cultures and societies.
There was a large amount of exchange, not only in goods but also inter-tribal marriage as well as exchange in religions.
They were also well advanced in certain technologies.
Tools and agricultural skills and lived in a very advanced era during that time.
Large cities such as
Cahokia and Pueblo cities
played an important role for native Americans
EUROPEANS
Most historians continue to represents American's history as having been set in motion by the arrival of European explorers and colonizers.
They have to recognize the existence of a North American Background for colonial history.
Students od Native America recognizes 1492 as a single moment in a long histpry utterly detached from that of Europe
These findigns call into questions historians' synchronic maps and verbal descriptions of precontact Indians
Their cultures, their communities, their ethnic and political designations.
