How did the networks of trade and the cultures of native peoples enable and shape European
settlement in the Americas?

European colonists used the networks that Native Americans had created to expand their own colonial empires.

For example, when the Spanish arrived in Mexico and Peru, the found the Aztec and Incan Empires respectively. After defeating these empires, they used the empires networks to establish their own colonies. In fact, the Spanish built Mexico City in the same place where the ruins of the former Aztec capital: Tenochtitlan.

b. 155 enlisted men and no officers

b. major john c. frémont led a rebellion called the bear flag revolt.

explanation:

during the bear flag revolt, from june to july 1846, a small group of american settlers in california rebelled against the mexican government and proclaimed california an independent republic. the republic was short-lived because soon after the bear flag was raised, the u.s. military began occupying california, which went on to join the union in 1850. the bear flag became the official state flag in 1911.