In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean, unlocking what Europeans quickly came to call the ‘New World’. Columbus ‘found’ a land with around two million inhabitants. He thought he had found a new route to the East, so he mistakenly called these people ‘Indians’. Within a hundred years, Europeans were trying to settle in the Americas. With Spanish and Portuguese explorers in the south, English explorers focused on North America.
This lesson examines what happened between early English settlers and Native Americans in North America. Using primary source evidence you will investigate what the early contact was like. Were the Native Americans savage and vicious hosts? Were the Europeans unreasonable and unfair? Or did they all just get along fine? You need to find out what happened.
The scholars know that the Indo-Aryans was once raised cattle and depended upon their milk but later turned to agriculture for they found evidence in the Vendidad where it shows the importance of sheep and cattle-rearing and their agricultural activities was considerably developed. These have been proved from careful comparison of a number of Vedic and Avesta words relating to agriculture.
Moreover, in most Vedic hymns, one can draw a conclusion that they settled down to a peaceful agricultural life and in the book of Atharva Veda, it contains the tradition of agriculture and that Prthi-Vainya was the inventor of ploughing.
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