HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Codependency
15 Apr 2016
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Natives were mobile because they would move from land section to land section in search for fertile land. Europeans instead were static in their farming habits because they didn"t employ slash & burn techniques. Greatest impact on the indigenous populations was disease. Jesuits shamed oral traditions, especially pertaining religion, of the indigenous which eventually lead to the elimination of native religion. Alcohol lead to abuse and conflict not seen before. Lead a reciprocal culture to becoming a strictly transactional culture. We mustn"t forget that aboriginals also came to europe and upon their return they would actually bring the europeans and natives closer by acting as a spokesperson for european culture/way of life and a translator. Natives were forced to believe the constructed narrative that europeans were. God"s chosen people and this was substantiated by the fact that natives were dying everywhere yet the europeans were not (at least of the same sicknesses)
