Native Americans and Colonist had sophisticated differences with so many factors, adding West Africans to the new world would contribute to even more catastrophic events to the three cultural groups during the changeover, the a chronological and historical event leads to what is known today as the "Clash of Cultures. " Native Americans and Colonist at Jamestown Jamestown, sits in the fort of Virginia where Colonist first set foot and settled to the new world.
For thousands of years, Native Americans have constrained these lands tit a diverse array of tribes and historical symbolism not understanding why the colonist needed to settle in Indian land. The colonist were known as puritans and brought in new religion that made the Indian surprised, with Christianity and a man named Jesus who lies on a wooden cross. To the Indians this was apprehensive. Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company in London that sent more than a hundred colonists to the new world.
The Native Americans practice animistic rituals and shared dreams that one would carry to its clan and tribe, adding to the nature of spirits, rain, and earth. In Jamestown, the colonist had strives to make life easier for each other, but found that there neighboring Indians were not too friendly-when arriving to the fort. Colonist had a very tough survival process at the fort leading to illnesses, disease, salt water poisoning, and even betrayal. The worst recorded events noted for tolerance lead to "starving time," which lead to colonist who needed to eliminate and survive by cannibalism. Schultz, 2012, Chi. 2, p.
31) Colonist depended on Indians to supply them with food for the exchange of guns and firearms. At times both cultures made interactions with one another for peace. However Native Americans did not make life easy, Native Americans was unfavorable and made life complex for Jamestown by trying to eliminate the trespassers entering their lands. Historically Native Americans and Colonist at Jamestown had a dark dissolution which would be marked for American history leaving only 60 colonists from hundreds in Jamestown. West Africans In The New World.
West Africans were slaves who came to the new world as farmers and servants. West Africans came to the new world with a different religion and beliefs. Most practiced Island religion and deem Gods with some who even practice dark magic known as voodoo. This religion adding to the new world with Native Americans, Colonist was very incomprehensible for this change. To add, Colonist was trying to force every culture to Christianity. Colonists were known to believe that Christianity was the only way of living, and if one did not convert to Christianity, many were severely punished or even killed.
Many West Africans were brought to the new world forced against their own will. The new world was becoming even more complicated with these diverse cultures of religious in beliefs, not understanding why one would believe another when some had their own aspects for beliefs for thousands of years. It is written those colonists were mainly trying to take power over real estate over the land. And in order to do this Colonist needed to extinct the Native Americans by force. Colonist found it more profitable to bring in West Africans as slaves to farm their lands.
For more than 200 years, many wars were carried out eliminating tribes either with foreign diseases such as smallpox, syphilis, which eventually reduced the West Africans and Native American population to methods of elimination. To add, history shows nothing good was to come to the new world when Colonist arrived to the land. Colonist brought down ethnic groups by force with unthinkable notions. History is explained and written by meaner of this culture clash. West Africans had no rights and were forced to live as slaves by birth till the end of their lives.
Some Indians and Africans were sold as slaves to other Tribes and other groups adding to this elimination process. It is evident that Colonist sought forced to believe their own religion and force it on the West Africans and Native Americans hoarding the lands evicting them stealthily. War on the New World Rebellion and turmoil were increasing among these cultures because of farming, or corn, water, tobacco and crops in the lands. At times Jamestown needed Native Americans to survive their arrival at the fort, during their dark suffering times regardless of conflicting events.
The slaughter of the 357 colonists crippled Jamestown and ran the Virginia Company of London to the ground. The new leadership implemented in Jamestown was known as the "House of Burgesses. " This newfound order was headed by king, but allowed the colonists to have its own government and voice (Schultz, 2012, Chi. 2, p.
33). As the Native Americans seen the newcomers (Colonist) grew slowly in new numbers, and the motives to obtain the and were growing. And war after war was started for land possessions. The Native Americans Killed and massacred a total of 357 colonist.In return, Colonist needed to make a statement for the Native Americans for this massacre.
For hundreds of years Europeans were highly skilled for war, to conquer and to eliminate the enemy by all meaner. An invasion took place in 1637 to surprise an attack to the Peugeot nation killing men, women, and children. To destroy any Indian that would stand in its path. Colonist made a new land withholding the new religion of Christianity and Jamestown in the state of Virginia became a new land for the English.
Conclusion It is evident that the new world had a variety of different cultural groups with new ideas, ancient beliefs, and ways of adapting to one's natural habitat. During these events, combining new groups to a new world with diverse religion, faith, and cultural differences- would lead groups to a predestined clash. Reference Blankly, G. (2011). Making Indians "White" The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and its Racial Legacy.
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