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The relatively dispersed nature of the Americas, as opposed to Catholic-controlled Europe, also made the native tribes more vulnerable to impingement from outside, as they could not easily unite against an attack. They also lacked the large numbers for complex military organizations and the resources to create technologically-advanced forms of military warfare. However, one uniting aspect to the native tribes was the respect they had for the land. The Europeans met people who viewed the land a different and more reverent attitude than themselves, not because the tribes were primitive, but because the Indians' land was so tight-fisted in yielding its bounty. The land could not be easily dominated by the cultivation of man, as it was, relatively speaking in Europe. Even native agricultural societies could not trust the land, thus they worshipped their food crop, corn, in the Mesoamerican regions of the world, rather than the more complex theological systems...
A lack of time to devote to building elaborate religious structures in many areas seemed to confirm the idea that these were a people without a religion as well as without a land to the Europeans.
The native tribes had less time to devote to cultivating technology for warfare and sea navigation, which also placed them at the mercy of European colonizers. The Europeans judged them according to their universalizing cultural system, which was characterized by desire for land and status, and viewed civilization in terms of owning and demarcating the land according to maps, as well as the presence of a written language. Under this narrow, stark and judgmental criterion native tribes invariably fell short. A final difficulty the natives would encounter would be the lack of immunity to European diseases -- the isolated nature of the Americas isolated these tribes from many of the pathogens that had afflicted Europe for centuries.
Humans made it to the Americas Since the first humans originated in Africa and somewhere in the Middle East, anthropologists and historians have been figuring out how the first humans made it to the Americas. Archaeologists agree that these first Americas relocated from Asia via Beringia and settled in North America. Based on new and emerging evidence, we can doubt this theory and suggest new possibilities. Many explanations exist about
North American Literature of the 20th Century: A Literature of Alienation North American literature of the twentieth century began as a predominantly white male-dominated literature, on the heels of 19th century romantic literary expression, such as within the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, and others. Similarly, in the early decades of the 20th century, American literature was dominated by the likes of William
Once they arrived, they were brought to a slave market and usually auctioned off to the highest bidder just as cattle and horses were auctioned off. The slaves then spent their lives of servitude helping white farm and plantation owners in their agricultural operations. The slaves weren't typically compensated and lived in deplorable conditions. Slavery helped many white land owners become rich, and the southern colonies, which turned into
Freshwater Aquatic Organisms In North America, freshwater aquatic organisms are more at risk for the invasion of an alien species than there terrestrial counterparts (Dextrase and Mandrak). While terrestrial species have some ability to migrate to more suitable environments to avoid hazardous situations such as pollution, aquatic species are limited to the water that supports them. Synonyms: Synonyms: Ameirus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819), Ameirus nebulosus Lesueur, 1819, Ameiurus lacustris (Walbaum, 1792), Ameiurus vulgaris (Thompson, 1842),
The only two exceptions on the map were Peru and Turkey. These countries only produced a single garment each. Peru perhaps could be viewed as an extension of the Latin American cluster save for its position on the other side of the equator. Turkey is a true outlier, with no other representation either from Europe or from the Middle East, despite centuries of advanced clothing production in both areas. There are
Human Evolution and Ecology Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an excavated archaeological site for human remains located near the Avella in the Washington County at Jefferson Township in the southwestern part of Pennsylvania in the United States. The site is a rock shelter that is overlooking the bluff Cross Greek of the Ohio River. Typically, the site is located 27 miles of the west-southwest of Pittsburg within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The site