Wish to Become: Chapter 6 Notes

History Globalization and Imperialism

(Chapter 6: Cultural Contact)

· The arrival of European explores in the Americas launched a series of cultural contact.

· The Indigenous people spoke many different languages and different systems of governance.

· They had a variety of spiritual beliefs and had established long-standing alliances and rivalries.

· The land was there for everyone to share.

· The most powerful nation was Europe was competing with one another for economic and military supremacy.

· Their ambition prompted them to seek power and wealth beyond their own horizons.

· They found lands for their monarchs

· After Christopher Columbus went many European nations came to North America.

· The fish fleets came to fish off the coast.

· Then the fur traders came and established trade relationships with the first nations with the first nations.

· With the loss off their traditional resources and their open clashes with the Europeans, the number of Beothuk for furs and food.

· There was only a small refugee Beothuk population left in the region.

· The potlatch culture of the Pacific Coast existed for thousands of years before the arrival of the Europeans.

· Britain colonized and ruled Sudan beginning in 1881.

· In 1956 Sudan gained independence from Britain and Egypt.

· These tensions ignited a civil war that led to the depopulation and displacement of Sudan’s Indigenous peoples in the south.

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