Compare And Contrast The Interactions Between Europeans And Native Americans

Early European exploration and colonization resulted in a multitude of cultural interactions among the Europeans, Africans, and American Indians. These diverse cultures were brought together, exchanged, and compacted into different, newer cultures, that included all of their views. Even though they did not have all that the Africans and Europeans did, the Native American societies were always changing, sophisticated, and extensive. The Native Americans extended all over North America, but they still connected with each other, they continued to trade, they exchanged ideas, and even though they had competition with each other they still helped each other survive, because survival was the key component for all of the tribes, if one tribe died

As the Native Americans and the Europeans fought for dominance throughout Virginia, each incorporated the goods and skills of the opposing culture into their own. The Native Americans quickly made use of the iron-age, which included knives, guns, fish hooks, and kettles. During this time the Europeans learned the fishing techniques that the Native Americans used, they started to use nets and canoes, and the even learned how to cultivate crops. As a result, of the social interactions between the Europeans and the Native Americans, the cultural and racial integration seen in the Spanish colonies was not the same in the North American colonies.
Christopher Columbus, sailed to the Indies in 1492, his perceptions of the Indians were fascinating at first; he examined the very complex relationship between the Native Americans and the European settlers. What was said about the Native Americans were that their societies were very successful civilizations and considered economic prosperity in North America as being