TR3.5

HIST301 Day 2

Dylan Wallace 2021-09-27 Mon 12:00

1 Reading Reflections

1.1 Argument

  • Native American perspective beneficial
  • Some other things come up when doing so
    • Trading was beneficial?
    • True impact of disease
    • Political shifts

1.2 Main evidence?

  • Trading
    • New materials brought to North America
    • Social and political impacts of trade
  • Ecological
    • Environmental destruction that came from European settlement
  • Disease
    • Crippling for Indian society from multiple standpoints

1.3 Author's perspective/bias?

  • "Native American perspective good"
  • Could be cherry picking

1.4 Questions?

  • What is the significance of viewing the conquest of North America through this lens?

1.5 Connections?

  • Talking about disease is common across previous reading