The Indians’ New SouthThe Indians’ New SouthEvan AltemoseAmerican HistoryThe Indians’ New SouthEuropeans came to the colonial Southeast because of the previous success other explorers had in the Caribbean and its surrounding island finding an abundance of gold, silver, and other treasures. What the explorers found in the colonial Southeast was deeply disappointing to them; there was no treasure there. However, rumors and wishful thinking kept the Spanish searching for treasure, even though they were faced with a hostile Indian presence. The continuing presence of the Spanish in the Southeast only contributed to the immigration of other European nations. This, in turn, provided the necessary platform for Europeans to build on to inevitably dominate the colonial Southeast.
One of the earliest factors that contributed to the inevitability of the European domination of the colonial Southeast was the fact that Spanish men and women were marrying people from Indian nations. Their children are called mestizo offspring. These children served at mediators for the two cultures they overlapped, a role of great importance as European power made itself felt over wider areas of the native Southeast. This was quite possibly the most permanent change in Indian life, and it effectively smoothed the transition from a strictly native land to a land more “Europeanized”.
Another reason that Europeans were able to take over the Southeast is that the Spanish had advantages in motive and material. The never-ending search for precious metals and instant wealth spurred the Spanish soldiers, from the lowest to the highest, through long and tiresome hardships. The Spanish also claimed religious superiority and ethnocentrism, which is the belief that one’s customs and culture is of central importance and is the basis for which others are judged. This gave them a leg up on the Indians who did not fight for religious beliefs or to impose their beliefs on others. This motivation of the Spaniards and the passive beliefs of the Indians laid the groundwork for European dominance. The Indians would not fight the Spanish on matters of cultural and religious change, and in some instances, accepted the changes with open arms. So not only did the Spanish not want to leave the Southeast because of the dream of riches, the Indians did nothing to convey the message that the Spanish were not welcome.
The Spanish were also expert swordsmen. This combined with the technological advantages of the Spanish military made the Indians want to avoid the invaders rather than fight them. So the Indians were moving inland to evade their Spanish intruders, which gave the Spanish and other European nations more land to reign over.
Another reason that the Europeans were able to conquer the Southeast is that the plants brought over from Europe grew well in the climate of the Southeast. Also the livestock the Europeans had brought with them took well to the environment. The peach trees and watermelons the Indians had been growing for years complimented the Spanish’s agricultural contributions of figs, garbanzo beans, and hazelnuts. The Spanish also made the Indians raise cattle, wild pigs, and free-range chickens. The hearty staple of food allowed the Europeans to settle comfortably in the Southeast. The Europeans did not have to beg or steal food when they arrived here instead there was abundance of food, which gave the people that came to the colonial
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Why the First Europeans did it and also how the Romans did it. (photo: Wikimedia Commons):
There is also a strong, if very brief, argument that in all the Western societies where the people settled, many more of the farmers still held their land, and others lived on it as if it had been their own land, with all the necessary food for them. In the West these settlers also built towns:
In Europe, there were many “churches,” church-houses or similar centers of learning. The churches came to life here from all parts of Europe, but there were also a few “mixed cities,” often as many as 500 to 700 persons at a time. By the late 15th century there were a number of “Christian” churches in England, America, and the USA, mostly of Greek origin, but they were a bit more prominent among the people in rural areas. One of the “diversely European” churches became a Roman church and was a great tourist attraction, but it was always located in the towns, and a few members were probably also present at many local religious events. Other mixed-cultural churches were generally in the “traditional” or “tendentious” places like churches of all kinds, or even temples – often on smaller lots. These were mostly of smaller proportions, usually about three to four members. In Britain, a number of mixed-culture churches exist. From the 14th century to the end of 17th century this congregation was gradually changed. Of course, that is exactly where it started.
The church of the Greek-language Christians in Britain (photo: Google Earth):
In Greece, there were plenty of Christian Greek-speaking immigrants all over the continent and they were able to find work. Many of them lived on the Greek-speaking farmlands:
Many Christian Christians lived on small farms and in isolated communities in the Mediterranean Sea and the highland. Sometimes they even took over their own farming to become merchants, as a form of self ownership. They did it because they wanted to make more money, just like the Greeks did they wanted to sell goods to their friends. These kinds of people were very happy with their new life. Most of them were married and not married. The women of their communities were also very happy in their community, which took them out of the traditional monogamous view of marriage. In one such village in the south of Greece, a Christian Christian wife was a woman, her husband a man:
By the 13th century most married Christian men lived in the villages. By the 15th, it became more common to marry out of wedlock or because it was legal in some villages to buy or sell their own land by the trade because the women had bought it in the villages:
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