Evaluate the extent to which European contact with Native Americans altered and continued worldviews of Native Americans and Europeans from 1491 to 1650. WRITE AN ESSAY.
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Explanation:
When the Europeans first came to the New World, they had two main effects. First, they brought germs that spread through Indian populations, killing huge numbers of them. The germs even killed Indians who had never seen whites because they passed from Indians who had been in contact with whites to others.
Europeans viewed them as "uncivilized". ... They also wanted to convert many natives. Dutch and French: They wanted wealth, glory, and the spread of Christianity.
conflict between settlers and Native American?
Their refusal to conform to European culture angered the colonists and hostilities soon broke out between the two groups. ... Colonists blames their failure to assimilate the Native Americans into their culture on racial differences and began to associate all people of color with negative characteristics.