I can’t exactly make it “based on what you learned from the lesson” or the images and responses from part A. However, disregarding that part, here are some possible perspectives you could explain (choose 3 which relate to the stuff you’ve learned) :)
- “While perspectives of every situation can be different, the native american’s perspective was extremely different than the european explorer’s when it comes to the ‘discovery’ of America. While natives had lived in America pretty much forever, Europeans exploring saw the America’s as brand-new land, unexplored and uncovered- full of hidden treasures. For example, explorers saw the expanse of land as undiscovered, since much of it wasn’t ‘urbanized’ or turned into settlement. However the natives saw that land as old, discovered long ago, since they used much of it for hunting and even memorized certain landscapes and stars to get across America.”
- “The Native American perspective of land and sacredness is far different from the european’s. While European explorers saw the land as something that needed to be ‘fixed’ into towns, houses, buildings and roads in order to be useful, the natives saw it as useful in many ways: hunting and gathering grounds, ceremonial places, and more. To the natives, land was sacred; religious and tied to their ancestors. To the Europeans, land was simply space to put more things.”
- “The native americans saw the earth and its resources as something to be respected, with one of their main ‘rules’— alongside their type of government, currency/trading system, and religion— the earth was considered very important and it was a basic knowledge to every native that the earth should be revered and cared for. The Europeans saw the earth differently, believing it to be theirs to take, reshape and build, even if it means sacrificing how the land once was. This can be proven by comparing settlements and living spaces of the European explorers versus the natives; while natives incorporated their living space into nature, Europeans took nature and moved it to make space and resources for an entirely new creation of their own. Natives respected nature and saw it as something to care for with utmost respect; Europeans saw that nature as a resource and valuable place for them to grow and learn.”
- “Many items and resources had different values to natives and Europeans. Native Americans, for example, saw corn as something holy in many places— while Europeans didn’t really even know what corn was. Different metals which were seen as ultra valuable to Europeans were much less important to native Americans. Different foods and animals were also seen differently.”
- “When it comes to the Europeans settling in the americas for the first time, natives and Europeans saw this very differently. Europeans believed they were simply taking advantage of unused lands, making a home for themselves, and teaching natives there ‘the right’ (AKA their own) ways of life. To natives, however, European settlements became for many the sign of foreigners taking over sacred places, stealing their land, killing their people and forcing them to obey strangers’ rules.”
- “Views on religion were different to native Americans and European explorers. While natives’ religions often had very close ties to nature, animals and plants, and the sky (sun, moon, stars, etc.), the European explorer’s religion— which was mostly Christian— saw religion as centered around one main god, someone otherworldly, and the human race, rather than nature.”
- “Perspectives on ‘advancements in society’ were different for native Americans and European explorers. While the Europeans focused on technology such as guns or other metal-utilizing resources; specific school-structured studies; things relating to their culture (horses and horseback riding, which were nonexistent in native culture) such as certain religious methods; and more, Native Americans focused on nature; ancient methods of agriculture, food(s), and taking care of the world around them while also thriving in it; certain religious things such as ceremonies; one’s connection to the world and hunting prowess; and more. Differences in how one is perceived as ‘intelligent’ between these two peoples (natives and Europeans) caused much conflict between the two.”
If you need more lmk. I’ll try to check the app every few days or so :)
