Chapter 1:
Native Americans shared different views than the colonizers. (they wanted to bring colonization to North America)
They did not agree on punishment of murder. (Europeans and Native Americans)
The cultural superiority turned when -- Captain William Claiborne’s trading post in 1635, Maryland - Wicomess Indians (they were going to the trading post on business) encountered enemy Susquehannock Indians—they presented inappropriate behavior (making fun) in public towards the Wicomess Indians (refusing to endure public humiliation)—and the Wicomess men later ambushed the Susquehammock group, killing five, then returning to the post and where three Englishmen were then murdered.
Wicomess dispatched a trusted …show more content…
The Wicomess leader was surprised when the governor praised them for coming forward about the incident and basically said, “I expect those men that did this crime shall be delivered upon me, and I shall do with them as I think fit.”
The governor did not understand the Native American’s procedure for murder. (If an incident like this occurred, they would “redeem the life of a man that is so slain with a 100 Arms length of Roanoke” (beads that they make, and use for money.)
Since the governor wanted prisoners, he said basically, “since you are strangers and are coming to our country, (English settlers) you should comply to the way we do things in our country, than impose your customs upon us.”
It would have been the other way around if the tables were turned and the murders were committed in England he would be the one defending “The Customs of our Country” (meaning if it was his people, he’d want it dealt with his way.)
(talks about progression and New World – 3 races; Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans)
Peopling of America did not begin until 1492.
Columbus proclaimed “New World” but really it was 3 worlds; Europe, Africa, and …show more content…
Center of Anasazi culture, serving both political and religious functions (housed 15k people)
They sustained their agriculture through a huge network of irrigation canals that carried water long distances.
Also constructed a transportation system connecting Chaco Canyon by road to more than 70 villages.
Impressive urban centers developed throughout Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Present day southern Ohio, the Adena and Hopewell peoples-named assigned by arch. To distinguish differences in material culture—built large ceremonial mounds, and where they buried the families of local elites. Approx. a thousand years after the birth of Christ, groups gave way to Mississippi culture—loose communities dispersed along the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Illinois that shared similar technol. And beliefs.
Cahokia, a ceremonial site in Illinois, represented the greatest achievement of the Mississippi peoples. Cahokia once supported a population of almost 20k, a city rivaling in size many encountered in late medieval Europe.
Cahokia was, one arch. Explained “as spectacular as any of the magnificent Mexican civilizations that were in its