HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pequot War, Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet
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Colonial contact: native american religion at the time of european contact. Hard to reduce the na religion to a single statement or two given that there was so much diversity. The new world was hardly new to the native americans, the term new world is a eurocentric phrase. Caribbean islands referred to as the indies because when christopher columbus first landed he thought he landed off the coast of india, so he named the native people indians . Native people here long before the roman empire, christianity, the exodus from. A. european discovery of america (1492) just 25 years prior to the beginning of the. Expanding power of nation states- the modern countries coalescing 100/200 years prior to this time, the countries might not include the same dimensions as there are today. Rivalries develop, each of these states center around a different monarch, there"s lust to develop overseas colonies as they are found: secular motivations.
