A CLASH OF CULTURES

A CLASH OF CULTURES

I. EUROPEAN WARFARE AGAINST FOREIGN INVADERS

CENTURIES BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD, EUROPE HAD FOUGHT AGAINST INVASIONS FROM:

ASIAN MONGOLSMUSLIM ARABSMUSLIM TURKSMUSLIM MOORS FROM AFRICA

THIS CONSTANT WARFARE CAUSED MANY EUROPEANS TO HAVE FEELINGS OF HATE, FEAR AND DISTRUST TOWARDS NON-WHITE, NON-CHRISTIAN PEOPLE

II. MATERIAL CULTURE

NATIVE AMERICANS MADE CLOTHES, WEAPONS, HOMES ETC. FROM MATERIALS FOUND IN NATURE

EUROPEANS HAD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES THAT PRODUCED GUNS, CLOTH, IRON TOOLS & UTENSILS ETC.

NATIVE AMERICANS WANTED EUROPEAN GOODS

MANY EUROPEANS VIEW NATIVE AMERICANS AS PRIMITIVE, SAVAGE, BARBARIC

III. RELIGION

NATIVE AMERICANS HAD MANY GODS/SPIRITS & CEREMONIES

EUROPEANS WERE CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVED IN ONE GOD

SOME NATIVE AMERICANS ADOPTED PARTS OF CHRISTIANITY WHILE OTHERS BELIEVED RELIGION WAS A PERSONAL MATTER

MANY EUROPEANS VIEWED NATIVE AMERICANS AS HEATHENS;AGENTS OF THE DEVIL

IV. LAND & LAND OWNERSHIPNATIVE AMERICANS BELIEVED LAND WAS A GIFT GREATER THANMAN; NO MAN COULD CLAIM TO OWN IT

TO EUROPEANS A MAN’S STATUS WAS DETERMINED BY LANDOWNERSHIP; LAND WAS WEALTH

NATIVE AMERICANS COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND CONCEPT OF LAND OWNERSHIP

EUROPEANS BELIEVED NATIVE AMERICANS DID NOT USE THE LANDPROPERLY; BELIEVED THE NATIVES HAD NO RIGHT TO THE LAND

V. EUROPEAN ACTION/POLICY

OVER TIME THE MAIN EUROPEAN & LATER AMERICAN POLICY WILLBE TO REMOVE OR DESTROY NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS

• 1. Why were the people living in the New World referred to as Indians?

• Columbus believed that he had landed in India and called the people

Indians.

• 2. What was the major killer of Native Americans after the Europeans arrived in the New World?

* Diseases

• 3. What was the goal/purpose of the Spanish mission system?

• Christianize and Conquer