Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Outside Reading 12

I found an article about European colonization. In this article, It talks about how in the 15th through the 19th century, Native Amecian population was ravaged. The first native american group discovered by Christopher Columbus was enslaved. The group was extinct by the year 1650. In the 15th century, Spainiards brought horses to the americas. This had a huge impact on culture. Europeans also brought diseases to the Americas that Native Americans were not immune to. Some diseases came in Epidemics, causing about 80 percent of the Native American population to die out. This article gives people a small glimpse of European colonization.

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/native-americans-in-the-united-states/european-colonization.html

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