How_The_Natives_Dealt_With_The_Europeans

How The Natives Dealt With The Europeans First Encounters: The Confrontation between Cortes and Montezuma In the book Discovering the American Past, Wheeler does an extraordinary job detailing the events that took place some 20,000-40,000 years ago. As a student you encounter the impressions the Native Americans had of Cortes (both in letters and pictures), and vise versa. As you read on you will find out how the Europeans and Indians first met, what they thought of each other through letters and pictures, and finally how they ended up. After Christopher Columbus met the first Indians, Europeans became fascinated with the New World and its inhabitants. As Europeans were publishing their accounts with Indians, many artistic depictions were being circulated even though many never knew what an Indian looked like. Indians had their impressions of Europeans first through stories and song because they didn’t have a central form of writing at the time. This later helped the generations to come with how to deal with the whites. The Native Americans were far more technically advanced than the Europeans were. The Natives began practicing agriculture, and when the Europeans arrived, the Natives were raising small crops already. Contact with other Indians cortes, europeans, native, americans, natives, indians, wheeler, first, before, after, through, pg, even, european, out, one, iron, day, accounts, world, thought, though, pictures, people, aztec, army, wrong, took, started, sores, should, peaceful, now, new, never