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THERE ARE 4 SECTIONS HERE, AND EACH SECTION HAS ITS QUESTIONS. I WANT EVERY QUESTION IN EACH QUESTION TO BE ADDRESSED WITH CERTANITY. I WANT VERY DETAILED BUT REAL ANSWERS. Native Americans and The World in 1492 1. Use both the textbook and the “Indigenous People of America” video to answer...

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Native Americans and The World in 1492
Question 1
The popular narrative regarding how the earliest humans arrived in the Americas for
more than a half-century was as follows: Small groups of Stone Age hunters crossed a land
bridge connecting eastern Siberia and western Alaska around 13,000 years ago, eventually
making their way into the center of North America via an ice-free interior passage (Panich &
Schneider, 2019). By chasing steppe bison, woolly mammoths, and other big monsters over two
continents to the tip of South America, the forefathers of today's Native Americans established a
great civilization.
The following are some of the most notable theories about the genesis of life: I. Special
Creation Theory II. Abiogenesis, also known as the Theory of Spontaneous Creation or
Autobiogenesis III (Omne vivum ex vivo) The Cosmozoic, Extraterrestrial, Interplanetary, or
Panspermiatic theory is the fourth.
Native Americans used WIGWAMS, HOGANS, IGLOOS, TEPEES, and longhouses.
Others grew their own crops, while others lived mostly off of hunting and fishing. The Lakota,
on the other hand, were nomads who followed the buffalo. The Apache were particularly feared,
while the Hopis were pacifists. Most societies were ruled by men, but the Iroquois women chose
their leaders. Despite the efforts of the Algonkian leaders to achieve an accord, the Natchez
"Sun" reigned supreme. Among Indians, the TOTEM POLE was not a universal symbol. Tribes
in the Pacific Northwest, such as the Chinook, used it to ward off evil spirits and commemorate
family history(Panich & Schneider, 2019). The Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations were the
three most notable Pre-Columbian civilizations. Many Pre-Columbian societies died extinct as a
result of European contact, either as a result of battle or sickness, but all three left behind some
of the most beautiful and highly decorative items ever manufactured.
Question 2
Smallpox, measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, bubonic plague, typhus, and malaria
are just a few of the infectious diseases that migrated from the Old World to the New. Horses,
cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and a variety of other beneficial species were brought to the Americas
via the Columbian Exchange. Llamas and alpacas were domesticated by Native American tribes
in the high Andes before Columbus, but no other animals weighed more than 45 kg (100 lbs).
Tobacco had enormous significance for Europeans as a cash crop a crop grown for sale rather
than for personal consumption despite its secondary importance to sugar (Panich, 2022).
Chocolate, manufactured from cacao seeds and used as currency by the Aztecs in Mesoamerica,
was also given to Europeans by native peoples.
The impact was most severe in the Caribbean, where Native American populations had
collapsed by more than 99 percent on most islands by 1600. By 1650, population in the Americas
had decreased by 50% to 95%. The Columbian Exchange's disease component was distinctly
one-sided. Viruses and germs carried by Europeans proliferate quickly among Native peoples,
who have no immunity to them. Native peoples unwittingly spread disease to neighboring tribes
when they go by canoe over waterways to trade and share the news.
New food and fiber crops were brought to Eurasia and Africa, resulting in improved diets
and increased trade (Panich, 2022).. In addition, the Columbian Exchange greatly enlarged the

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scope of manufacturing of various popular substances, allowing millions of people to enjoy the
joys of coffee, sugar, and tobacco. The most serious negative consequences were the
enslavement of African populations and the spread of illnesses across the Old and New Worlds.
The spread of diseases was perhaps the most striking and direct effect of the Columbian
Exchange. The Columbian Exchange benefited Europeans the greatest. During this time, the
Americas' gold and silver were delivered to European treasuries, and food imported from Africa
and the Americas enhanced Europeans' life expectancy.
Question 3
Christopher Columbus was a Spanish navigator who discovered the Americas while
sailing under the Spanish banner. Some consider him to be the "discoverer" of America,
however, this is not entirely accurate. His transatlantic travels laid the groundwork for European
colonization and exploitation of the Americas (Cipolla et al., 2018). Though Columbus never
proved that the Earth was round, he did shock long-held doctrine when he discovered a continent
that no one in Europe had ever heard of. He didn't believe the Earth was flat, yet he changed the
direction of human history by kicking off the Age of Exploration.
In truth, these textbooks purposefully removed every significant element regarding
Columbus' disastrous expedition to the Americas that we do know. Loewen demonstrates, among
many other things, that Columbus and his men were far from the first to set foot in the "New
World," and that the peoples he encountered there did not submit to his and his crew's "godlike"
authority, but to the deadly forms of smallpox and the bubonic plague, they brought with them
from Europe.
Columbus Day is observed on Monday in honor of Christopher Columbus. The holiday
should be preserved since it is representative of Italian-American heritage and signifies the
beginning of Western civilization (Cipolla et al., 2018). That day must be respected as a day to
honor the efforts of all Italian Americans, hence it should not have been modified at will. Every
plaque that comes with a statue acknowledges the efforts of the Italian community. As a result,
people need to understand why it's there.
Civilization
Question 1
After a few early commercial excursions, the first Dutch outpost in the Americas was
established in 1615 on Castle Island, near Albany, on the Hudson River. The village was
primarily used as a trading post for native Lenape tribespeople, although it was eventually
supplanted by Fort Orange (Stewart, 2020). The first Dutch colony in North America was New
Netherland. It spanned sections of what are now the states of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware, and ran from Albany, New York, to
Delaware, in the south.
Bacon's Rebellion was a planned insurgency of Virginia pilgrims that took place between
1676 and 1677. Nathaniel Bacon led the charge against Colonial Governor William Berkeley. It
was the most common form of defiance in the North American states, where disgruntled
frontiersmen took part (a to some degree comparative uprising in Maryland including John
Coode and Josias Fendall occurred in a matter of seconds a while later) (Stewart, 2020). The
symbiotic relationship between European obligated workers and Africans (a mix of contracted,

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