american history alan brinkley ap edition pdf

Term, European settlers came to dominate most areas of the Americas. But it seems certain that none of theseĮxperiences was as tragically transforming as the arrival of Europeans. These ancient civilizations had experienced many changes and manyĬatastrophes during their long history. In the Americas by 1500 and that several million lived in the territory that now People-and perhaps as many as 75 million, more than lived in Europe-lived Scholars estimate that more than 50 million Important contact with Europeans occurred, the Americas were the home By the end of the ﬁfteenth century A.D., when the ﬁrst Year after year, a few atĪ time, these nomadic peoples entered the new continent and moved everĭeeper into its heart. Into the new continents and began to people them. It began many thousands of years earlier when human beings ﬁrst crossed THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAS did not begin with Christopher Columbus. In the background are the ships that have brought the European visitors who recorded these images. Native Americans here are portrayed as exotic savages, whose sexuality was notĬontained within stable families and whose savagery was evidenced in their practice of eating the ﬂesh of their slain enemies. They called Indians for many generations.

It also represents some of the ways in which white Europeans would view the people FIRST ENCOUNTERS WITH NATIVE AMERICANS This 1505 engraving is one of the earliest European images of the way NativeĪmericans lived in the Americas.

American history alan brinkley ap edition pdf