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 MONGOLS MUSLIM ARABS MUSLIM TURKS MUSLIM 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 OWNERSHIP NATIVE AMERICANS BELIEVED LAND WAS A GIFT GREATER THAN MAN; NO MAN COULD CLAIM TO OWN IT TO EUROPEANS A MAN’S STATUS WAS DETERMINED BY LAND OWNERSHIP; LAND WAS WEALTH NATIVE AMERICANS COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND CONCEPT OF LAND OWNERSHIP EUROPEANS BELIEVED NATIVE AMERICANS DID NOT USE THE LAND PROPERLY; BELIEVED THE NATIVES HAD NO RIGHT TO THE LAND

V. EUROPEAN ACTION/POLICY OVER TIME THE MAIN EUROPEAN & LATER AMERICAN POLICY WILL BE 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