01:512:103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hohokam, Natural Disaster, Social Stratification

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: American History Courses
• Course: 01:512:103
• Professor: Professor Mitchell

Document Summary

Scholars believe that native americans used to live a very static, unchanging life till europeans invaded. Many contemporary native people reject the scholars believes. Conservatives believe that indians were warlike savages whose culture deserved conquest and transformation. According to the author, native americans and europeans were both cruel in some level, however, when europeans entered america, they escalated the bloodshed in a new level that was never seen in native land before. Native americans demanded less from the nature than the europeans. Many scholars believe that the first americans migrated from siberia. They did not live a social life, they were always on the move, so could not develop permanent villages or have any heavy possessions. When native americans were traveling to america, they had no notion that they were discovering and colonizing a new continent; they simply believed it to be an extension to their home. There were three surges of colonization by the alaskans.