Clash Of Culture: In The 1490 European Exploration Of The Americas

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Clash of Culture: In the 1490s european exploration of the Americas started when the exploration started there was a lot of American indians living in that area for a long time such as in mexico like the Aztec Empire, and descendants of these people still live in those areas today.
Puritan Dominance: In many ways American character has been similar to the puritans. In 1620 a group of english puritans landed on the tip of cape cod and years later there was more and more puritans coming to America. Some settled in an area known as new england, Puritans helped found the new society in America.
Rise of Rationalism and Independence: Starting in Europe at the end of the 17th century some philosophers …show more content…

But then the europeans began colonies on the shores and relied on the American Indians to teach them survival skills such as how to make food and shelter. Early on the Indians outnumbered the colonists but soon the population started to increase.
Battling New Diseases: With the Europeans coming it had a deadly impact on the Native Americans. Before the Native americans were not really exposed to diseases that the europeans had so when the europeans made contact with the Native americans they had no immunity and it killed a lot of native americans. Against all odds some Native americans survived the diseases, and soon the Europeans didn't need the Native americans anymore.
Explores Writings: Explores started to detail their explorations of the new world, they described the americas in a flurry of eager documents. They talked highly on the Native americans that were very nice to them talking about their resources peacefulness and hospitality and talked about their …show more content…

With it being very complex there were many connections between the bible and their lives.They believed reading the bible was a necessity for all puritans. This lead to Puritans putting a lot of emphasis on education. Puritans had a lot of influence on literature in the time period.
The Age of Reason: Tinkerers and Experimenters: At the end of the 17th century new european ideas began to challenge the puritan faith. This was called the age of reason and this was basically saying that religion is not the answer to everything. The puritans saw god differently than the Rationalist thinkers.
The Smallpox Plague: An unlikely hero of America's first scientific exploration was the Puritan minister Cotton Mather. A ship from the west indies docked in boston, this ship carried goods but also smallpox. Smallpox was very deadly and spread rapidly and lead to an outbreak in boston.
An Unlikely Cure: At the time of the smallpox epidemic Cotton Mather was working on the first scholarly essay on medicine he was a devout puritan. He heard of a cure from a Turkish physician, it seem illogical but it worked. It called for isolation, the people were against this cure and it was disputed over and turned violet,Mathers house was bombed. Later Mather succeeded about 850 people had

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