Article and Compare Chart

1. Article and Compare Chart Native American and Explorer Unit Miss Springborn~Team 6

2. Contact • This article talks all about when the Europe and Natives make contact after Columbus • There were many positive and negative results of these meetings • Your job was to record as many as you could while reading…fill in or add on to your chart was we go

3. New livestock- sheep's, cows, pigs, chicken Horse is introduced- used for hunting, improved transportation Clothing changes- new weaving and dying techniques. New jobs for weaving and textile production New plants- wheat, barley, citrus, bananas, improve diet, better farming techniques New Technology- knives, guns, axe heads, traps, Wealth, some tribes involved in the fur trade gain money PLOW- improved hunting skills, farming building Native American Benefits…

4. DISEASE- 50-90% of the population is killed by diseases such as small pox, black death, diptheria, measles, etc. Natives had NO immunity to them Slavery- worked in mines or on farms, worked to death Lost wealth- cities looted, destroyed, wealth stolen from them Forest/crops cut down destroyed Massacred/killed in warfare for territory Land was taken/stolen from them Forced to convert to Christianity or face death Forced to stop practicing their culture, convert to more European style of life 24 million Natives out of 25 million are killed from disease, warfare, and slavery Native American Drawbacks…

5. PLEASE NOTE: • For Natives the DRAWBACKS were much worse the Benefits • They lost way more than they gained in the contact between the two groups • Natives would have been much better off if the Europeans had never come to the new world • Contact mostly NOT GOOD!!!

6. New crops and foods- sugar, tobacco, corn, potatoes, turkey, beans, squash, buffalo meat, cocoa, etc… New foods to eat and sell Lots of money to be made from the new crops FUR TRADE- LOTS OF WEALTH!!! New sources of money, wealth including silver, gold, crops, etc… 1000’s of new medicines from plants, some yet to be discovered New healing knowledge gained from natives New lands to live on, farm. Europe is overcrowded and new area to send people to New source of labor- they force the natives to work on farms and mines New materials for clothing including cotton European Benefits…

7. Some risk in exploring, sailors and explorers died from long journey Some diseases from the natives but not very deadly New land required slaves so they had to get them and control them somehow Never find a Northwest passage to Asia Slaves were dying very quickly, had to keep finding more slaves Many Europeans gained nothing from explorers Competition between European groups will lead to warfare European Drawbacks…

8. Please note… • Europeans gained a plethora of new things from exploration • Their drawbacks were minor compared to the Natives • Exploration was very profitable and beneficial to the Europeans • THEY GOT THE BETTER END OF THE DEAL

9. What now… Prewriting… • We will be writing an essay about the benefits and drawbacks of Contact • You will need to tell me which group you think benefited MORE from the contact and exchange • You will also need to write about the benefits and drawbacks for each group