11.12.13 The First Americans in Give Me Liberty by Eric Foner, pgs. 2-11
Directions: Read pgs 2-11 in your textbook and thoughtfully answer the following
questions in YOUR OWN WORDS & in complete sentences. Please do NOT copy
sentences from the text.
1. One of the most striking features of Indian societies was their diversity. Support this
statement with 3 examples.
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The most of the tribes had their own language and also their own kind of society. None of these ethnic groups were a nation, all of them were their own little community. Plus, religious n political ideals.

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Also how they were living was different, from stone houses to tents, and their techniques and tools of hunting, fishing, and farming. Furthermore, the goods they used for trading with other tribes were different from the areas they were.

pizarro staged a mock trial and found atahualpa guilty of revolting against the spanish, practicing idolatry, and murdering huáscar, his brother. atahualpa was sentenced to execution by burning. he was horrified, since the inca believed that the soul would not be able to go on to the afterlife if the body were burned.

when christopher columbus arrived on the bahamian island of guanahani (san salvador) in 1492, he encountered the taíno people, whom he described in letters as "naked as the day they were born." taíno influences survived, however, and today appear in the beliefs, religions, language, and music of caribbean cultures.

ad 1492: taíno meet columbus; “new world” gets new diseases. in the bahamas, the taíno are 125,000 strong in 1492 when they encounter the crew and the italian captain of three spanish ships. christopher columbus seeks a shorter sea route to india to spain get a foothold in the profitable spice trade.

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