Question

1. Describe a historical context for understanding the diverse Native American cultures that had developed in the Americas by

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus  discovered the Americas in the early 1490s, and the first European settlement was only established in 1496. Until that period, indigenous tribes never had contact with European explorers and during the 1490s, this contact was very little, allowing the natives to only have contact with the members of their own tribes, or from different tribes.

This type of contact has stimulated the diversity of Native American tribes across the continent. This is because the interchange between the members of these tribes and the relationships established between them, allowed the creation and establishment of other tribes, adapted to their space and owners of totally different cultures, customs and ideas about existence, universes and themselves. .